03-18-2009, 09:14 PM
[quote TubeDude][cool][#0000ff]My understanding is that the water in Yuba is mostly owned and controlled by the power plant in Delta. It is not a farmers irrigation situation. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This last year they sucked Yuba way down and kept DMAD reservoir full...for no explainable reason. And, from what I heard a lot of the water was just sent out into the Gunnison Bend wasteland to evaporate or sink into the ground. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Unfortunately, there is no "minimum pool" situation in place for Yuba as there is with many other lakes. So, if the power company wanted to drain Yuba at any time, they would be within their rights to do so.[/#0000ff][/quote]
If this is the way it is, that really sucks hard. Because if its anything like a certain copper mine they are rather wasteful of water. Sure they "own the rights" to use it and so forth but some of these companies take it a little too far. I think they aught to have to conserve water just like we do for each of our lawns/houses.
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[#0000ff]This last year they sucked Yuba way down and kept DMAD reservoir full...for no explainable reason. And, from what I heard a lot of the water was just sent out into the Gunnison Bend wasteland to evaporate or sink into the ground. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Unfortunately, there is no "minimum pool" situation in place for Yuba as there is with many other lakes. So, if the power company wanted to drain Yuba at any time, they would be within their rights to do so.[/#0000ff][/quote]
If this is the way it is, that really sucks hard. Because if its anything like a certain copper mine they are rather wasteful of water. Sure they "own the rights" to use it and so forth but some of these companies take it a little too far. I think they aught to have to conserve water just like we do for each of our lawns/houses.
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