Interesting idea to divert water from the Mississippi to lake powell/Colo. River

Aug 1, 2022
8:46:00pm

CrashMcLarson All-American

Crazy, but maybe?

It's time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate the feasibility of moving water West

Don Siefkes of San Leandro follows up on his recent letter to the editor regarding transferring water from the Mississippi to the West.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-voice/2022/07/30/army-corps-engineers-must-study-feasibility-moving-water-west/10160750002/

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Interesting idea to divert water from the Mississippi to lake powell/Colo. River

CrashMcLarson

8/1/22 8:46pm

It will be crazy expensive and take too long, but I think it’s absolutely

Richardo

8/1/22 8:50pm

I've been saying this for years. We used to build ambitious projects like this in America.

byuluvr

8/1/22 8:54pm

Desalination is ambitious. A mississippi pipeline is nonsensical.

Backcountry

8/1/22 9:12pm

I believe it’s already been deemed feasible in conceptual studies. It’s a

The Pope

8/1/22 9:34pm

The environmental costs should be a nonstarter.

Baylorbears11

8/1/22 9:39pm

The same people who are horrified at the environmental aspects that you mention

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:44pm

I agree that water usage should wel thought out and not

The Pope

8/2/22 8:50am

Building dams and waterways that are all within a 500' elevation difference is one thing. Getting water to flow uphill

unctoothman

8/1/22 10:14pm

Lake Powell elevation: 3,652 feet. Mississippi headwaters elevation: 1,475 feet.

Corn Pop

8/1/22 8:55pm

Ms Lippy’s car: green

Mike Honcho

8/1/22 8:56pm

1.02 kWh to lift 1 acre-foot of water 1 whole foot. Lake Powell is over 161,000

Corn Pop

8/1/22 9:12pm

One plant would raise it 10 ft a year correct?

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:28pm

Keep in mind, that was extremely rough, it's after 11 pm kind of math.

Corn Pop

8/2/22 5:55am

How many days do you think they plan to use?

Ted Lasso

8/1/22 9:32pm

California ought to divert funds from the high speed rail boondoggle to this instead

Mike Honcho

8/1/22 8:56pm

Desalination is the answer for California

SausageKing

8/1/22 9:08pm

Takes an enormous amount of energy. CA will need to solve that problem first.

seacougar

8/2/22 1:12am

Wasn't the idea to pipe water from the Columbia River south?

Busiturtle

8/1/22 8:57pm

Probably easier to divert the Snake down through Utah

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 9:00pm

Much easier and probably better. Or the Missouri.

Turnpike Lane

8/1/22 9:04pm

Can't Elon Musk bore a tunnel through the Colorado Rockies?

Busiturtle

8/1/22 9:08pm

He needs to bore his way out of his bad faith Twitter deal first, then his

BlooCoog

8/1/22 9:17pm

That will never get past the salmon freaks

TheLoanArranger

8/1/22 9:14pm

Yep, that idea has been around for more than 100 years. Relatively easy to do,

Peter Venkman

8/1/22 9:49pm

First proposed in 1903. Article about it

Peter Venkman

8/1/22 10:07pm

Its only about 80 miles from the Snake River to the

Tysman Rap

8/1/22 9:59pm

This idea has been floated for decades. Moving water from one basin to another

stenso

8/1/22 8:59pm

Build a massive reservoir at the top and a hydro dam for the drop to power the

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 9:01pm

Again, you can re-capture some of it but not all, and the difference is still a

stenso

8/1/22 9:03pm

The efficiency losses are negligible compared to the height differences

Corn Pop

8/1/22 9:15pm

I wouldn’t be overly concerned with the energy requirement, especially at the

The Pope

8/1/22 9:38pm

only 1/3 of Phoenix water comes from the Colorado system. 2/3’s comes from

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:41pm

It would take 200 years to build Hoover Dam if we started today

Busiturtle

8/1/22 9:03pm

duh, we have windmills now. All the power we need, it's water we lack.

BYUFBDAD

8/1/22 9:41pm

Ha. Floated for decades.

ForzaPuma

8/1/22 9:59pm

probably easier to divert from other basins like snake or upper Missouri

JackStack

8/1/22 9:01pm

Diverting from Yellowstone lake into snake River basin is a short pipe

rcbyufan

8/1/22 9:16pm

It would be much easier to build a pipeline from

jre85

8/1/22 9:46pm

Desalination also takes massive amounts of electricity. Basically a nuclear

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 10:13pm

My Uber driver in Albuquerque was saying this was the solution to the drought along with….

Bonoman

8/1/22 10:17pm

It’s a good thing your Uber driver isn’t a civil engineer...

seacougar

8/2/22 1:21am

Water pipelinea from nidwest east coast great lakes to the rocki3s

It's time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate the feasibility of moving water West

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