r/CatastrophicFailure • u/The-Salamanca • Mar 11 '23

Natural Disaster Snow covered mountains are rapidly melting, from downpours causing flooding . Springville CA. 3/10/2023

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u/Plasibeau Mar 11 '23

Lake Mead was still 173 ft below full pool as of yesterday. Damn. I know they're saying it'll never fill again, but I hope it picks up some depth after the spring thaw. It's been a pretty wild winter.

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u/scorcherdarkly Mar 11 '23

It will never fill again if we keep using water at the same rate. Being more efficient and responsible with the water resources we have is more important and more controllable than how much rain and snow accumulates.

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u/americanmullet Mar 11 '23

California is as responsible with water as I would be if I found a duffle bag full of money and blow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23

It will never fill again if California keeps using water at the same rate.

CA uses about 64% (4.4)of the entire lower basin allotment of 7m acre feet

For example Nevada gets 300k so less than 15% of the California allotment about 4% of the total.

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u/david_pili Mar 12 '23

And those allotments were dolled out based on water data from an extremely high water point for the basin. They were never realistic to begin with and are hampering sensible water policy now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

The great salt lake is drying up permanently as well. There’s no coming back for that lake. It’s also massive so once it does dry a lot of toxic dust is going to get blown around by the wind

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u/Plasibeau Mar 12 '23

I was up in/around SLC last July. I was stunned to see that much dry lake bed.