flying over the GSL yesterday and amazed at how much of it is dry sand.

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Jun 6, 2023
8:25:11am

mudpupper All-American

flying over the GSL yesterday and amazed at how much of it is dry sand.

It is going to take years of winters like this one to restore the lake to prior levels.

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mudpupper

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It is going to take several years of winters like this to fill Powell.

RSL I am a dad joke

6/6/23 8:20am

Maybe if they didn’t drain a bunch of it into Lake Mead.

RdF3

6/6/23 8:21am

Lake Mead saw its first negative since the start of runoff yesterday.

RSL

6/6/23 8:23am

I don’t think lake mead has risen as much as lake Powell

elderyoda

6/6/23 8:32am

Not a lot at all

RSL

6/6/23 8:42am

Considering it took 17 years to fill

crimedog

6/6/23 8:24am

flying over the GSL yesterday and amazed at how much of it is dry sand.

mudpupper

6/6/23 8:25am

GSL is currently 3 feet below average and 6 feet below the high. It's a shallow

Benfica1

6/6/23 10:19am

Does it need to be full? Is that the goal?

pink22

6/6/23 8:26am

Ideally that's the reason why we build a dam, right? To have full water storage.

RSL

6/6/23 8:43am

Is it? I always thought it was to hold it until it's needed elsewhere. If it's

SUAVO

6/6/23 8:51am

Lake Powell is the reserve which allows the upper states to use water.

Littlerich

6/6/23 8:55am

So, if its full then the upper states don't need the water and the lower states

SUAVO

6/6/23 9:11am

No, if it full you have a reserve for the future as well as the present.

Littlerich

6/7/23 7:54am

Yes, but that means nobody needs the water.

SUAVO

6/7/23 8:02pm

They could fill it up if they didn’t let so much out. So that’s why I asked.

pink22

6/6/23 9:05am

The priority is complying with the law on water rights- on average 7.5 million acre feet have to flow out of Powell

scall

6/6/23 9:14am

Add to that the fact that the western U.S. region has had a fluctuating climate

TailgateU

6/6/23 10:40am

Nuclear power and Nuclear powered desalination is the way California needs to get its power and water.

scall

6/6/23 10:47am

Not even CA has that kind of money

Nat Gas Man

6/6/23 11:24am

It's not that expensive, and they could charge the market rate for water to pay

TailgateU

6/6/23 11:27am

Most of the cost of nuclear power

6/6/23 1:47pm

Thank you. That’s good info.

King of Y

6/6/23 12:48pm

Love the substantive comment. Good info.

6/6/23 1:47pm

Colorado needs more winters like Utah had.

Cobra Venom

6/6/23 8:26am

Not to mention how low aquifers are. This is a great start, but water concerns are hardly over.

Byron McNertney

6/6/23 8:27am

It could just as easily be a fluke year and back to drought

Nat Gas Man

6/6/23 8:29am

I'm going to wager that it was definitely a fluke year

letthewookieewin

6/6/23 8:33am

History sides with you.

scall

6/6/23 8:50am

We are all going to die.

YbeatsU

6/6/23 11:05am

RE: We are all going to die.

TailgateU

6/6/23 11:28am

cutting back on usage from CO River will help. I think AZ, CO, CA have agreed to

Avery

6/6/23 8:50am

I thought that was only a temporary cutback

SUAVO

6/6/23 8:52am

I didn’t think CA agreed

Nat Gas Man

6/6/23 8:58am

How about we celebrate the water year through the end of the runoff before we go

YbeatsU

6/6/23 9:19am

Have you followed any of my posts on this?

RSL

6/6/23 9:21am

The goal should be to conserve & use water that's available by year. Selfishness

Coug Dude

6/7/23 7:13pm

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