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Article #238Re: California's Opportunity to Achieve Improved Flood Control
From: Craig Sanders
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <dopowell-1202972221450001@1.1.1.1>, David O. Powell <dopowell@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: >In article <5dsnk8$13e5@hpbs1500.boi.hp.com>, tmenten@boi.hp.com (tom >menten) wrote, in part: > >> Your expertise is civil engineering, yes? Tell us about the long term >> costs, in updated dollars, for a typical dam you've studied. I understand >> that they usually silt in after many decades and then lose their water >> storage and flood control capacity. True or myth? What is the cost to >> deal with silt? > >I frankly find Mr. Menten's question ridiculous. Siltation of large >reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada is not a significant problem. >That hardly makes it a ridiculous question, it just means that the ?answer to the question is known, and not what he thought it was. There was something on the local news last night about Folsom Resevoir being 15 feet shallower from the sediment carried down after the new years flooding. Can you refute this too Craig Sanders
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