Lake Mead record low water level

[dlandersson]

Lake Mead record low water level

[Freedom77]

HI, I live 5 miles from Lake Mead, 53 years. It's BAD. and getting worse. Meanwhile the county building dept. and the carpetbagging developers are putting up buildings like crazy. We're not the only ones. Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville in Northern California among others are also drying up. Pray for rain and snow.

[Tomfoolery]

My company bid some specialized hoist equipment for construction of the new water intake pipe system for Lake Meade some years ago. We didn’t get the work, but it did bring to my attention that the original intake (for potable water, not for power generation) was going to be too close to the surface, or actually uncovered, and they knew it. So they set out to build a new one that’s lower.

It’s probably done by now, and it looks like it’s a good thing that they did.

Edit: Found this article from 2014. https://rense.com/general96/dropping.html

Also found this story. Looks like it’s done. The “Third Straw” intake pipe. https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/the-third-straw.htm

[OverEasy]

Hi All!!!

Just a bit we found on the Weather Channel about the Great Western US MegaDrought that might be of interest…

https://www.weather.com/science/environ ... the-latest


We knew something has been happening but really didn’t realize the true extent of it.


Best Regards
Over Easy

[OverEasy]

Hi All!

Just saw this news article on the dropping water levels out west…

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04 ... river.html



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[NiceAft]

I reported this last Monday.
viewtopic.php?t=28918

It is a problem.

[dlandersson]

Nice article, Thx

Hi All!

Just saw this news article on the dropping water levels out west…

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04 ... river.html



fudt

[dlandersson]

Lake Mead keps going down

[Russ]

Our boat is all ready with no place to go.

The marina has no water. Docks are sitting in the mud. Marina owners said they would help launch from the beach area. But there are no docks floating.
They claim snowpack is at 130% and I guess they are letting the water out anticipating a lot of melt soon.

[NiceAft]

Wow Russ

[OverEasy]

Hi All!

Wouldn’t count on the snowmelt much this year…. Charts show the sampling as actually less water content than they estimated several months ago ….possibly due to changes in where the snow fell.

The ‘ship wrecks’ are interesting…will the Park Service require the owners to pay for their removal and mitigation?
Seems like it would be a great time for that sort of clean up vs them being a hundred feet or more under water.. a bargain!

The thing that throws me ar the human remains…..wouldn’t want to be the finder…

Be a good time to do some recon on future ( when it fills back in) potential fishing spots though!

Still sad to see climate change in action though… sea levels up and lake levels down along with aquafirs depleting ….

Can only hope things turn around soon….

Best Regards
Over Easy

[dlandersson]

Update from yesterday

[Jimmyt]

Yikes!

[dlandersson]

Some nice graphs of the water situation

[OverEasy]

Funny holes in that next to last video… wonder what made them?

Boy, is the lake getting lower and lower….and lower….
Wonder if picking up fishing lures is allowed on park ‘grounds’?
Might be an opportunity to look for a better anchor…..
(Actually it’s not allowed!)

The concentration of water in an ever smaller amount of lake must be having an effect on the fishing and aquatic environment.
Must be so weird to be walking around on what was once like bottom a hundred feet or more under the former surface.

Given the geology I can’t help but wonder why there aren’t sink holes… those original geologists were pretty sharp in figuring out where to make the lake though.

The last video was just a guy with a blog but it was eye opening as a nonprofessional perspective of a guy living it.

Sad to see climate change playing out in front of everyone’s eyes in real time.
(So much for the denialists approach… … reality, like gravity always seems to win though )

There are substantiated reports of ground level sinking over multiple states due to aquifer depletion from desert farming.
The aquifers aren’t being replenished. Reports estimate that even if pumping stopped entirely the aquifer wouldn’t be able to self replenish based upon the rainfall of the past decade ( and the annual rainfall rates are declining)……

Locally the real estate along the estuaries are showing the effect of higher tides … yard areas are regularly flooding without storm surge.
We also are having larger areas of shore forest rapid die out due to salt water intrusion into the water tables…these are forest areas that were vibrant and healthy just 10 years ago…..

Up side locally seems to be the higher tides seem to have increased the tidal water flow which is purportedly helping the marsh shrimp and oysters populations improve along with the associated fish populations.

Best Regards
Over Easy