🚀 go-pugleaf

Neil O'Hara wrote:
> 
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> 
> Folsom reservoir handled the greatest inflow it has ever
> received during this event, with no significant problems
> downstream on the American. The existence of an Auburn Dam
> would have made _zero_ difference to the central valley floods.
> 
> F.O.R.'s approach makes a lot of sense to me.
> 
> Neil

Yes and no. In fact if the opponents of the Auburn Dam, including
FOR, American Rivers, PARC, many private individuals including
myself and perhaps most importantly our friends in Petri's 
congressional district in Wisconsin hadn't pushed SAFCA and the
Army Corps of Engineers to do Levee improvements and reoperation 
of Folsum dam for flood control, the Natomas basin, and most of
Sacramento would be underwater right now.

If the Auburn Dam was under construction, it's likely that the
other measures wouldn't have been an emphasis for the Army Corps.

In the Sacramento Bee I read last week that the Army Corps was
trumpeting the fact they had just completed repairs on Folsum
dam, improvements on downstream levees, and were reoperating 
Folsum for flood control.

I would like to congratulate the US Army for executing
their orders from Congress magnificently. Let's remember, that 
just because they know how to build dams, doesn't mean they have
to, any more than they have to use every weapon at their
disposal.



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