03-10-2008, 02:59 PM
OK well I was living in Arizona when tubedude lived there too when the mighty FLUSH was released from Glen Canyon Dam.
At that time I was naive and gullible about the whole thing. I was thinking "Oh great! There is gonna be more nutrients coming down the river and it will save the beaches!"
In other words I bought the whole press release from the newspaper article I was reading. Well I dunno why thats what I thought what the Arizona officials wanted everyone to believe.
Well I bought into the whole idea after all the reading that the Grand Canyon was loosing its beaches and that the habitat for deer and all that was gonna be gone unless water was released from the dam.
Well from what I have read seems that tubedude made a point, to me anyways.
But the logic seems clear to me that if Glen Canyon Dam was not there in the first place the Humpback Chub would return plus, and this makes me mad; the fact that Lake Mead had a serious problem with a lack of phosphorus. The fish in Lake Mead were skinny due to a lack of phosphorus. My step dad told me about the Stripers being skinny.
Well? So the fact is Glenn Canyon was blocking the vital nutrients that would otherwise enter Lake Mead and be of benefit to the fishes. By the way the Nevada Fish and Game Department asked the city of Las Vegas to "put sewer into the lake thats less treated" to increase the phosphorus levels. Phosphorus is of course a vital mineral for fish growth. In Nevada the sewer that goes to Lake Mead is actually changed to pure water with none of the phosphorus mineral. Of course in most lakes with "treated" sewage the phosphorus mineral actually cause excess algae growth and the dying algae uses oxygen which is no good.
They had to use airplanes to dump more phosphorus into Lake Mead.
I guess it helped actually, but don't know how much it cost.
If you ask me and here is my opinion. I think it would be cool to not even have Lake Powell ( no offense) and let the water run natural through the Grand Canyon, let the Humpback Chub return and let all those nutrients enter Lake Meade. Just my opinion there are too many dams on the Colorado River and I'm fed up with the overuse of water in the dry west.
Just my 10 cents worth.
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At that time I was naive and gullible about the whole thing. I was thinking "Oh great! There is gonna be more nutrients coming down the river and it will save the beaches!"
In other words I bought the whole press release from the newspaper article I was reading. Well I dunno why thats what I thought what the Arizona officials wanted everyone to believe.
Well I bought into the whole idea after all the reading that the Grand Canyon was loosing its beaches and that the habitat for deer and all that was gonna be gone unless water was released from the dam.
Well from what I have read seems that tubedude made a point, to me anyways.
But the logic seems clear to me that if Glen Canyon Dam was not there in the first place the Humpback Chub would return plus, and this makes me mad; the fact that Lake Mead had a serious problem with a lack of phosphorus. The fish in Lake Mead were skinny due to a lack of phosphorus. My step dad told me about the Stripers being skinny.
Well? So the fact is Glenn Canyon was blocking the vital nutrients that would otherwise enter Lake Mead and be of benefit to the fishes. By the way the Nevada Fish and Game Department asked the city of Las Vegas to "put sewer into the lake thats less treated" to increase the phosphorus levels. Phosphorus is of course a vital mineral for fish growth. In Nevada the sewer that goes to Lake Mead is actually changed to pure water with none of the phosphorus mineral. Of course in most lakes with "treated" sewage the phosphorus mineral actually cause excess algae growth and the dying algae uses oxygen which is no good.
They had to use airplanes to dump more phosphorus into Lake Mead.
I guess it helped actually, but don't know how much it cost.
If you ask me and here is my opinion. I think it would be cool to not even have Lake Powell ( no offense) and let the water run natural through the Grand Canyon, let the Humpback Chub return and let all those nutrients enter Lake Meade. Just my opinion there are too many dams on the Colorado River and I'm fed up with the overuse of water in the dry west.
Just my 10 cents worth.
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