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I liked this quote from the article you cited: Is there any way to keep the Lower Colorado River flowing? It may seem like an engineering oversight not to
by taftster 5y ago
I liked this quote from the article you cited:
Is there any way to keep the Lower Colorado River flowing? It may seem like
an engineering oversight not to have a way for that 815 billion gallons of
water trapped in deadpool to get past the dam. But as they say in the software
business, that’s a “feature” and not a “bug”.
This then answered my question why they couldn't just let water run through the original bore tunnels (which were cemented in, instead of maintained).
Good article, thanks for the link.
- Arrath 5y agoThe concrete plugging the tunnels can be removed, and has been before. Here's a project in Oregon where the original diversion tunnel plug was removed, to allow drawing cold water from the bottom of the lake to feed the river: https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2005/triservice/track1/schlenker.pdf https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2005/tr...