Acre Foot of Water
Aug 28, 2017 18:36:46 #
canarywood1
Loc: Sarasota,Florida
chazz4623 wrote:
I suspect that no one would miss water from the Mississippi river, it never runs low. If you research the amount of board feet of lumber lost and its value, along with the value of water for irrigation and many other uses, it becomes obvious that transporting and reservoiring large amounts of water is, in fact, quite a bargain.
Trouble with that is if you capture 500 gal. of Mississippi river water, by the time you got all the mud out, you would probably end up with 5 gal of potable water.
Aug 28, 2017 22:18:12 #
chazz4623
Loc: Prairieville, La
Why would you need potable water to irrigate or put out a fire?????? I'm sure your comment was tongue in cheek, but it didnt follow what was said. Actually, the water would be typically put into reservoirs where the mud would decant and settle out. If you just consider the Mississippi water, the danger would be from industrial waste, agricultural runoff, and bacteria.
Aug 29, 2017 00:32:03 #
John_F wrote:
They were saying that Houston is a lot of concrete which won't absorb water and the storm drains weren't up to carrying away that much water. That's what I heard. I was in Houston only one time about 40 years ago and that was for only 3 days. However, I spent 3 years of my childhood in Dallas in the early '50s.How much of the flooding was due to the volume of water falling and how much due the flatness of that part of Texas (i.e., no well developed drainages like wide & deep river gorges).
Aug 29, 2017 01:14:59 #
our ca.gov.would rather spend a billion dollars on a high speed train to S.F that nobody will use.
Aug 29, 2017 11:46:10 #
When I was stationed at the Kingsville Naval Air Training Station, 1954 - 1956, I was struck by the flatness of the land all the way from Corpus Christi to Houston-Galvaston. At night you could see someone else's headlights and finally meet over half an hour later. Of course, the coastal road was crossed by streams and small rivers, but they did not have deep gorges. Many areas have received over 25 inches of rain, as of yesterday morning, so where could the water go. It is also reported the Gulf water level is up. Its like draining into a full bathtub.
Aug 29, 2017 13:17:20 #
SteveR wrote:
We have pipelines for oil. I've often wondered why we don't have pipelines for water.
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