ACOE Releases Cali Water Farmers had counted on to run off to ocean

These are probably the type of orders his “good” advisors from his 1st admin would push back on or pretended not to hear if the President persisted. But the sycophants this to time around. “Yessir. Good idea sir”.

 

Trump doesn't care about California.

And MAGA doesn't care about anything Trump doesn't care about.

And the Trumppublican Senate and Congress don't care about anything besides being in Trump's good graces, and holding onto power and personal position.

There really is no firm rule of law. Kind of only suggestions. (For the ruling political class and uber-rich, anyways. Still pretty firm laws for the rest of us.)

It's kind of crazy how rapidly it all happened. And we all got to watch. Some of us even knew what was happening. Crazy world.

 

What a complete total dipstick.
Stable genius, indeed.

 

The guy 100% doesn’t care if crops or cattle are lost 6 months down the road. It’s all about the optics of showing some water flowing right now.

Crazy.

 

and just think y'all still have 206 weeks of Trump to complain and carry on about

 

The problem with a thing like this is the downside will only be seen 6+ months down the road when/if they could have really used some of this reservoir water (you know… the purpose of a reservoir).

This region is huge for dairy production (like 21% nationally). Water is a precious commodity out there so at best this seems reckless, to just “waste” volumes of water for a photo op.

 

Bill doesn't care. He's the equivalent of Trump in a poster form. He's just happy you're upset.

 

Maybe Bill is excited for paying more for food

 

Are these Dams to controlled by the Fed government?

 

Yes

Yes - they are fairly small flood control reservoirs. One is 185kaf and the other is 85 kaf. ACOE is in the flood control game. Sounds like ACOE may be claiming the releases were for flood control capacity.

If not, then they were just for show and provide no benefit to anyone. HOwever, depending on rainfall, they could easily refill before early summer and this would be much ado about nothing except for the potential threat.

What makes it so stupid is that the water that was released could cause flood problems for some of the farmers (most of whom were likely skidmark voters) before it ends up evaporating in the valley later this year. There is literally no way it will find its way across the valley and anywhere near Los Angeles. But that's not the point - its just a photo op so the skidmark can pretend he's doing something and his followers will lap it up.

 

I would say it’s equally possible they honestly thought it would help, because they don’t know stuff.

 

You are being far too kind. Political stunt, done on the fly without consulting regional water officials.

 

Thanks, I thought it was State controlled

 

And y’all still have 102 weeks to make excuses for, justify, project, and worry about Trump’s actions. After the midterms Democrats will retake control of both houses of Congress.

 

Who gets to actually use water is state controlled under State water right laws, with a limited exception for federally reserved water rights (not applicable in this instance).

Its a mix on who operates reservoirs - they can be Fed controlled by US Bureau of Reclamation (Lake Shasta) or ACOE (Kaweah), State controlled (Lake Oroville), municipally controlled (Hetch Hetchy), utility controlled (Pardee), and private.

List of dams and reservoirs in California - Wikipedia

 

And as you can see from the past administration, al lot of damage can be done in 102 weeks.