03-26-2015, 09:59 PM
[#0000FF]What a lot of folks don't understand is that it is virtually impossible for those who control the gates to ration the water down to the last drop allocated to downstream water users. They have to open the gates to flow at a specified rate in order to keep the system full enough to back up behind headgates and direct water off in other directions. It's not just to raise the level of Salt Lake.
I remember the summer of 1983. There had been a monstrous snowpack in the mountains and the huge runoff caused Utah Lake to flood...water backed up into the fields and a Mississippi river going down the Jordan. Oh yeah, that was the year I could look down from my office window downtown in Salt Lake and watch City Creek pouring down the street below.
Why does it always have to be feast or famine?
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I remember the summer of 1983. There had been a monstrous snowpack in the mountains and the huge runoff caused Utah Lake to flood...water backed up into the fields and a Mississippi river going down the Jordan. Oh yeah, that was the year I could look down from my office window downtown in Salt Lake and watch City Creek pouring down the street below.
Why does it always have to be feast or famine?
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