Posted on 12/20/2016 5:25:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
They dont get their water from Lake Mead. They get it from Lake Havasu and below..if thats what you mean.
They do get the majority of power from the Hoover Dam. Matter of fact, the LA area gets more than the whole state of AZ does. If I remember right.
When California goes, give them Las Vegas. The rest of Nevada can join the new State of Jefferson.
Please leave. Let San Diego stay for the naval base (you guys wouldn’t want it)but please leave otherwise.
Uh, you can add camp pendleton to that list
Right about down the San Andreas fault. That could be the border.
Where do you think Lake Havasu gets its water?
Thats not the point. The point is that the Colorado River water for California is drawn out of just above the Parker Dam.
Close the water off at the Hoover Dam and you close it off for AZ also.
But, I can go for shutting down the generators at the Hoover and cutting the Power for Kalifornia.
Besides that...you are about to argue with someone who lives along that river system.
I thought at Hoover there are two release points Arizona and Cal and you can shut one and not the other or adjust one and not the other.
This my apartment, is now the official, well not really “official” embassy of the California secessionist movement.
No. Az gets some from above the Hoover, but the majority comes from just above the Parker Dam that creates Lake Havasu. Both AZ and CA draw from that point. One side going to CA, and the other to Phoenix and that area. Take a look at your atlas. The Cal border is just Below Laughlin NV and Bullhead City AZ. Actually, Colorado and AZ hold the most miles the River runs thru.
But, CA gets about 70% of the power from the Hoover Dam..if I remember right. So..they could shut down about 70% of the generation from the Hoover and finally start filling Lake Mead back up...which is about to happen if you know how low Mead is. Funny thing is..they are looking to curtail sending power to AZ in favor of California.
And you know what we in AZ say about that right? The word starts with an “F” and the last word is “You”.
They get a significant amount of the power produced by Palo Verde, too.
Here..this explains it well. It hasnt changed a lot.
http://www.lao.ca.gov/1997/101697_colorado_river/101697_colorado_river.html
Thanx. I took the tour and it was explained the way I said. Then we were shown where water was released in both directions. That’s all I know. I accept your explanation in the absence of further knowledge on my part.
I spent 20 years in Arizona; I’m familiar with that river system.
If you are talking about the Hoover. One side is AZ and the other is NV.
Las Vegas takes about all its water from Lake Mead. And with the FEDS contaminating the river system at that mine in CO. The people in Las Vegas dont have to use meth any longer to get their highs from chemicals. Juss Joking..somewhat.
I was tryig to get to the BR site but it wont load. So here is Wikies site.
Go ahead, add up the amount of power CA gets from the hoover dam. Money talks and Bullcrap walks and CA somehow got the majority of the power that dam creates. But, it was built in the 30s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Power_Plant#Power_plant_and_water_demands
Then you should know what Kingman did with its water rights to that river, right?
There is another easier solution. The Raker Act of 1913 signed by President Wilson allowed San Francisco to lease Hetch Hetchy land in Yosemite, and build a dam. San Francisco violated the terms of the Raker Act, by selling off hydro power to PG&E which profits from it. President Trump can issue an executive order to rescind the Raker Act, because San Francisco violated the terms of the lease. Yosemite is federal land. The feds can turn off the water spigot, depriving San Francisco and surrounding towns of water and electricity, until further notice.
Will California extend the same courtesies to counties or city in California that was to split off from the state and stay part of the US?.
I mean during the Civil War the state of Virginia had West Virginia split off from the state of Virginia and stay part of the Union
Really we could let California leave as long that areas of the state that wants to stay part of the US can stay
Then all we likely lose is LA and San Francisco.. they they can become their own little city-states third world shithole ghettos
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