Al_Pine Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 catbirdseat said: I could be made sacred again. Like a virgin...touched for the very first time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Damn if you froze that lake and put a couple of polar bears in there it'd look like a pint-sized Baffin Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fairweather Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 There is a good article in last months "Canoe and Kyak" magazine. The lake is at an all-time low right now and some of the narrow-walled canyons that were recently underwater are drawing paddlers in large numbers. The valley/lakebed is very silted up....over 20 feet thick in places... and would have to be flushed out somehow if it were to ever be restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 I thought boats were prohibited on the lake unless it is the caretakers ski boat that is mored to the "can't use it" diving/sunbathing platform about 30 yards offshore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Fairweather said: There is a good article in last months "Canoe and Kyak" magazine. The lake is at an all-time low right now and some of the narrow-walled canyons that were recently underwater are drawing paddlers in large numbers. The valley/lakebed is very silted up....over 20 feet thick in places... and would have to be flushed out somehow if it were to ever be restored. If you drain the lake and it rains on the silt for a few years your problem will solve itself although there will be some fierce turbidity problems downstream. Or you could use the silt to fertilize the fields in the Central Valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 In a few years there will not be much need to fertilize the central valley - at least within a reasonable shipping distance. The developers are paving it over and putting up tract home projects and shopping centers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapertimmy Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 ehmmic said: I thought boats were prohibited on the lake unless it is the caretakers ski boat that is mored to the "can't use it" diving/sunbathing platform about 30 yards offshore. i gotz mad connectionz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Harris Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 In a few years there will not be much need to fertilize the central valley - at least within a reasonable shipping distance. The developers are paving it over and putting up tract home projects and shopping centers. I too wish it would stop, but playing devil's advocate, it's the farmers selling to the developers. At least Turlock turned Wal-Mart down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 In a few years there will not be much need to fertilize the central valley - at least within a reasonable shipping distance. The developers are paving it over and putting up tract home projects and shopping centers. I believe it is a fact that, within not many more than a "few" years, the entire central California valley will be infertile. The plain fact, recognized since the times of Mesopotamia, is that irrigation causes salinization of the soil. As a direct result of current irrigation practices, pretty much the entire central California valley will be a desert. And we're growing crops there that we could grow elsewhere, like back (south) east (cotton, rice, oranges, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Is salinization where the whole valley turns into Salinas and starts selling Steinbeck memorabilia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 I've driven through the Central Valley like five times and never seen it, because the smog was so bad. What a shit hole. We should sell it to Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Smog was so bad last Sep that there were 14 spare the air days out of the 15 I was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Harris Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Last couple of weeks have been great right after the storms. Rain washed all the junk I've breathing out of the sky and left some great visibilty. Could look east and see the peaks of Yosemite like they were right there. I even happened to be on the west side of the valley last week and could still see the snow capped Sierras clearly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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