Posted on 06/04/2022 9:31:32 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Lake Mead is a reservoir is Nevada and Arizona, relied upon for example by the city of Las Vegas for drinking water. Last year, its water level was significantly lower than previous years. This year, it’s even lower. This is dramatic…
If the trend does continue for the next two decades as it has been going on for the past two, it seems like things aren’t looking optimal for the Colorado river, the largest water reservoir by capacty in the US, and the Hoover Dam hydroelectric power plant.
Lake Mead fell about 7 feet in May. I expect June will likely be close to the same. Lake Mead is now way below 1,050 ft. in elevation, at which more than half of the turbines will not be able to fully work…
If water levels continue to drop, Hoover Dam would cease generating electricity when the water level falls below 950 feet (290 m) and the lake would stabilize at a level of 895 feet (273 m) when the water reaches the lowest water outlet of the dam.
Below 1,050 feet (bottom of the efficiency curve for the current turbines) more water is needed to produce an equivalent amount of electricity. Such low depths increase the rough zones for the turbines—the generating range in which vibration and cavitation threaten to damage the unit. At extremely low lake levels, like the ones Mead is fast approaching, those rough zones—which usually occur in a narrow production band at medium capacity—could expand to fill the entire generating range, making the turbines vulnerable at any speed. But this unprecedented scenario would be a mystery even to the staff of the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the dam.
(Excerpt) Read more at strangesounds.org ...
And developers are building huge new housing developments outside St. George and the illegals keep pouring in.
The idiot left has been whining about Lake Mead/Hoover Dam and Lake Powell/Glen Canyon dam forever. Well, their wish has finally come true. Now they can stop all their whining.
Lake Mud
I can’t believe I just read an article about Lake Mead that didn’t work in climate change propaganda. Maybe, just maybe, larger populations living in desert areas plays some kind of role.
Iron rule of civilization.
One cannot develop beyond the capacity of the land to support it.
Nevada and Arizona are about to experience “sticker shock”
Apparently neither the builders of these mighty dams, nor modern engineers, have ever heard of a mill race. Guess they're too busy grinding axes, regurgitating talking points, and driving an agenda.
If the enviro-whackos would quit prioritizing fish over people, we could store the water rather than let it flow to the ocean.
I only hope that the lake is entirely dry rock at 895 feet. Otherwise, the entire project has long locked some large amount of fresh water from use.
Under the Colorado River Compact of 1922 (an interstate agreement ratified by Congress), and the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, California is entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River.
What does this mean? Arizona and Nevada have to release enough water downstream so that the greater Los Angeles fantasyland can fill its swimming pools and water their lawns via aqueducts and pipelines.
Of course. Metro LasVegas area is 2.6 million people living in the desert for no good reason.
Mother Nature is draining Lake Mead because she knows where the bodies are buried:
Bodies found in drought-depleted Lake Mead could be linked to gangsters, say mob experts
And yet, I and many others have a lawn here in Scottsdale/ Phoenix. Yesterday the city went into a level 1 water warning. Means nothing... “Try to conserve” No penalties or rules.
Side note - The doomsday nature of this article misses the fact that Arizona uses 36% of the Lake Mead allocation. It’s not 100% dependent on the Colorado. For me- getting rid of my lawn will probably halve my water usage. That, and convincing my daughters to limit their showers to 30 minutes instead of an hour.
In other words, we’ll survive. They will not allow Hoover to become a dead pool before sending out police to ticket water abusers. There’s tons of room to reduce usage. That said, I’m not one for mandates, but this finite resource should have some strings attached.
“If the enviro-whackos would quit prioritizing fish over people, we could store the water rather than let it flow to the ocean.”
That’s silly, then the ocean would dry up
Thanks for the graph, kinda disputes this line from the story: “Lake Mead is now way below 1,050 ft. in elevation”
Part of the problem is that for the last two years, the winter snowfall has been near-normal, but in the spring the air mass over the snowpack has been warm and dry (a lot of fire-weather warnings) and most of the snow has evaporated/sublimated and blown away rather than melting and flowing into the rivers.
Then Hank Johnson wouldn’t have worry about Guam flipping over.
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
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