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Never recorded before river dried up
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2021-10-06 at 8:39 PM UTCEel river and watershed in NorCal is just a rocky bottom. A dried up gulch
Hey I got an idea.. let's drain all the water from The Colorado river and create lake Mead and give it to LA so they can have their green lawns in Brentwood and golf courses and while were at it, drain California's Mt Shasta run off that feeds into the Sacramento farming area down into LA as well.. losing about half the water content to evaporation on it's 380 mile journey.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/South-Fork-Eel-River-dry-California-drought-16474328.php
Fisheries biologist Pat Higgins said he was shocked when he discovered on Sept. 17 a section of the largest tributary in California's third-largest watershed was dry.
Higgins explained there was no water flowing above ground in the section of the South Fork Eel River where it meets the main stem in Dyerville below Highway 101 in Humboldt County. The riverbed was exposed and the water just stopped, ending in a still pool. The south fork and the main stem were no longer connected. He believes this is unprecedented based on his observations going back to 1995 and historic data from the U.S. Geological Survey's gauges measuring river flow. -
2021-10-06 at 8:47 PM UTCMove to St. Louis where we have the confluence of the nation's 2 largest rivers.
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2021-10-06 at 8:50 PM UTCColorado River is already almost entirely drained. Isn't that the one that goes through the Grand canyon? I suck at geography so correct me if i am wrong. But that big ass ditch didn't dig itself. Water does that sort of thing.
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2021-10-06 at 8:52 PM UTCAlso, can you drain a river? IDK. You can divert it. Or build a dam. But as long as the origin of the river exists under the same circumstances that made the river in the first place can you really ever drain it?
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2021-10-06 at 8:56 PM UTCIn a Drought, California Is Flushing 75% of the Delta Water Into the Ocean
Were probably looking at a million acres of ground that potentially will be fallowed permanently - it will never come back to being farmed.
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2021-10-06 at 9:36 PM UTC
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2021-10-06 at 10:26 PM UTC