You can not have any of Washington or Oregon water,thems fighting words!

Stop releasing water then!

An above average snowpack is based on the last 30 years. So lower snow pack levels set a downward trend for the average. In other words a 100% snowpack in 1960 is more snow than a 100% snowpack in 2024. Of note we have passes peak runoff, the Colorado River at Loma (15 miles east of the Utah border) is receding. Yesterday 06.12.24 was the hottest day of the year so far at 100 degrees +/- in Grand Junction. While we have a couple more weeks of runoff, the flow rate will be declining.

Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the massive quantity of water that's diverted through tunnels from the Colorado River basin to eastern Colorado?? Above average snowpack, yet less water going down stream doesn't add up. It's all going to Denver and the front range. I'm fact, 40% of the front range water supply is Colorado River water that should be filling up Powell and Mead. There's plenty of water supplied by nature, is mankind causing the problems. When these reservoirs were created, the river basin was in an exceptionally wet period and there was an abundance. There's a lot of sources that say they didn't know back then, but there's a lot of proof that they did and carried out these projects for the economic benefits they brought. We were in a drought for just over a decade, but right now, were back to the average flow. People need to stop moving to the desert where there's no resources, and stop moving to the Front Range of Colorado where there's no water. Besides, all the new environmentalists moving here are trashing the Forrests and ruining camp sites on top of bringing Californias traffic jams with them.

Do what they did at Orville. Black plastic balls. Electrocution with a shark! Million of straws? Wait I just solved trumps dilemma electrocution or shark. Neither. Put shock absorbers on the boat! BAM

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The fact our govt has thought about funding a fix at all is astonishing.

I've said it before and i'll say it again. Every river that flows into the ocean in Oregan and Washington should be captured and piped into Glen Canyon. Rivers than flow into the ocean in California should be captured and piped into Lake Mead. These two actions would save everyone from drought in the Southwest US and Northern Mexico. Follow the money to see why this isn't being done.

Very nicely prepared, organized, and presented! The graphics are spot on!!

This is way less of a problem than Time Bomb insinuates. Government report is a worst possible case scenario.

As a resident of the desert southwest, I want to thank you for your efforts on this channel. Most people don't think about where their water comes from. Your content has really opened my eyes to the vital need for water conservation and reclamation.

Even strong Epoxy won't last long. Better work on a long term corrective and preventive action.

I'm going to laugh if whilst they are drilling holes they destroy the whole dam. If the Colorado River can't provide water to the lower reaches we're going to destroy the environment up stream, killing off the trees and bushes that retain water so next year we can retain less water and exacerbate the problem into the future? It's almost like literally everyone involved in government doesn't actually know anything. Oh, well, America will fall. One way or another.

Rather have Ansels Glenn Canyon back.

Build Desalination Plants Now!

Just leave it alone.

I can't even imagine the pain and anguish of having a voice that is hated by none other than Marceline Anderson, herself.

If they want to keep more water in the dam, they should keep more water.

This much water divided by to many people = not enough.

No coating is going to be able to stop the "corrosion" from cavitation. Maybe now that the phenomenon is not so openly understood, a way to work with nature could be found, but working with nature questions the whole purpose of the dam in the first place. Tampering with nature on so many levels never ends well.

Thanks for the dam update and info on the dam pipes.

Great idea putting holes in the dam, NOT.

Hey why not siphon it over the top? Would need pumps and valves to get going, then only valves to moderate the spill. That would be a bit of an engineering adventure, but it could probably be cheaply or easily brought in from city fab shops. Another track, how come they can’t refurbish those 4 defective pipes, one or two at at a time, proper steel? Hey did Kiewit use any what we call adhesives, like that proposed epoxy in this case, on their Oroville dam spillways restoration?

there should be no release until the dam is full.

Besides a drought history. Water is ground saturation and water table filling. CIPP lining the pipes may be beneficial, however, building tunnels is a major concern. This will directly be more claustrophobic to downstream users. Perhaps one of the issues with the lake the dam system upstream and around it. We are starving the natural flow of the water to the lower states.

Whole story is probably b*******just another way to steal taxpayer money and line their pockets

I read they are going to epoxy coat the pipes

Referring to BuRec Aging Infrastructure Projects for 2024 (@ 6:10): The third project shown refers to the "west bypass drain." What is the west bypass drain?

Good job!

Such pipes should be required for every future dam project. It would be a disaster if a deadpool where to be created.

The water year doesn't start in January.

Beautiful amazing gorgeous area 👍😎✊

Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell need to go bye bye... Massive waste of Colorado River water. So much water is lost here...

Hey duke?

divert money from Israel and Ukraine to fix this.

Thanks for the update. I live in Southern Arizona.

They don't make a sleeve that you can put in those tunnels

Mexico is in need of water. Why is iinvestment and research into Water Desalination Plants one on the gulf and the other on the Pacific side would help them and it could be make a lot of money in the end

lol "i hate your voice" was that a real comment

Drain Lake Powell. Because it's time. Let the Colorado River flow.

Thanks for the update ! 👍

I don't care 🤷 anymore.

You said the early snow melt was released into the ocean and then said it was diverted to underground storage...?

No. El nino restocked water supplies but its over and climate change pushing seasonal rain north means we'll always have water issues until we develop large scale desalination to supply the coastal cities.

Surprise, surprise. People who know little to nothing about climatology but feel comfortable pinpointing what will happen next where wrong. Climate change is happening and will continue. But people who want to pretend they know what they are talking about without doing the work and those that have done the work but want to be first to “break the story” for attention need to do the right thing. That includes attention seeking PhD’s.

LMAO!! The California drought will never end as long as they keep screwing with their water storage. As long as the communists run california, they will continue to use the “Draught” as a weapon. BTW, we have the exact same amount of water as the earth has had for millions of years. so it is the idiots in California that have done this to themselves. PLEASE STOP MOVING TO COLORADO AFTER YOU HAVE DESTROYED YOUR STATE!!

How can we blame China?

Dumb question. If water level at GC drops below minimum power, does the river essentially stop flowing, until the next tributary down stream?

Now it's time to piss it all out to the ocean 👏

I think the stats on the San Luis reservoir are misleading. It's not on a natural water flow, and has nothing to do with up-mountain snowpack. It's a pump-fed lake. Oroville is discharging excess water, but it is NOT being transferred into San Luis...which it could be...in a round-about sort of way. At any rate, it is disconnected from precipitation. Why is it under-filled? Human decisions, not "natural" causes.