From the California Water Blog comes three very spooky 1950s-era water plans for California — including one which proposed to bypass canals and pipes by shooting water over whole counties with a water cannon.
Sure, that would work…
Another plan proposed turning nearly every Northern California river into a lake.
Scary stuff indeed; we’re happy none of them were implemented.
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Peter Moyle is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, at UC Davis. He is author or co-author of more than 240 publications, including the definitive Inland Fishes of California (2002). He is co-author of the 2017 book, Floodplains: Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services. His research interests include conservation of aquatic species, habitats, and ecosystems, including salmon; ecology of fishes of the San Francisco Estuary; ecology of California stream fishes; impact of introduced aquatic organisms; and use of floodplains by fish.
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Delta bay conservation plan has nothing to do with conservation!! It is a catchey name to fool our legestraters who vote for it believing it will be good for the eco-system. D.b.c.p. is a trogen horse that is the peripheral canal. But the voters voted it down before so the metropolation water dist in L.A. has a new name. The peripheral canal will destroy the S.F bay.
We need to install desalinazation plants in L.A. that will deliver water even in drought years.
But L. A. doesen’t want Those desalazation plants because they are ugly, and they will have to pay for them. If the state puts in the peripheral canal then we in northern c.a. will have to pay half the cost.
Stop the two canal and the d.b.c.p. Tim McCabe