The U.S. Army Engineering dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from the two dams in Telea County, and flushed river waterways toward Sanhoa Kimburay farmland.
According to the federal government’s record, water has been released from the Terminus Dam on Lake Cowear, and the success of the lake has jumped in Shafadam early in the morning on Friday.
Four days after Trump’s social media, the U.S. forces “entered California” and “watered,” suddenly increased. Trump also visited Los Angeles last week to supply more water than California’s “Open Valve and Pump”.
According to the federal government’s data, the flow from Taaminusdom to the Cowear river near Visalia has increased to more than 1,500 from 57 cubic feet on Friday morning. The flow from the success of the lake near the porterville to the Tulle river increased from 105 cubic feet to 990 per second.
The Army Engineers said Tyler Stalker, a spokesman of Sacramento Corps, “to release controlled water from two dams.” “The action is adjusted as a local official. Release is within the capacity of the lower waterway.”
Gene Paulk, a spokesman at the headquarters of the Washington Corps, answered a question about the reason for the sudden increase in water flow, saying, “The recent President of Trump’s presidential order to enact an emergency is” unite with the direction. Measures to provide water resources in California, which I talked about by email.
Pawlik said that the Army was releasing water from the dam to make California use water to respond to mountain fire. It was not clear how the federal government was trying to transport water.
Trump, on the other hand, shared photos of water from the dam and said, “Photos of beautiful water flow just opened in California.”
“Today is 1.6 billion Gallon, and 5.2 billion Gallon in three days. Everyone should be satisfied with this long battle victory!” “I just want them to listen to me six years ago. I wouldn’t have fire!”
During the fire in the LA County, the president tried to connect local water supply issues with his demands of changing water management in other places, such as the running fire hydrant. However, state officials and water experts are inaccurate comments. Southern California’s regional reservoirs are at a record level, and more water from Northern California would not have affected fire reactions.
The first one of the storms of the river approaching the approaching atmosphere brought snow and rain to California, so the water was released from the dam.
California’s dam managers may release water in front of large storms to create space for reservoirs for more spills. However, comments from the federal government agency on Trump’s order suggest that the case was different.
According to Carla Nemes, director of the California Ministry of Foreign Affairs, state authorities said they would release water from the Federal Reservoir, saying that it was not part of the decision -making.
“We traditionally make advanced adjustments at the operation level, but this was not actually part of this decision,” Nemeth said.
The two reservoirs are used to maintain the supply of agricultural irrigation areas. Nemeth stated that winter requires more supplies to grow crops in a few months in summer, not the irrigation season of the farm.
Dam is also used to adjust the pace of floods that can affect downstream areas. During the historic storm of 2023, she stated that she had tried to collaborate with local landowners to get a flood flow to replenish groundwater as much as possible.
“I can’t really talk about the corps decision process to release this at this point,” she said.
It was not clear that the federal official was going to send water released from the dam.
A local water manager said it was decorated in the Federal Government’s plan on Thursday. Previously, DAN VINK, a water consultant who used to be a general manager in the TULE RIVER irrigation area, called this situation “very unprecedented.”
According to VINK, local aquariums said on Thursday afternoon that the Army Corps would “move to a channel capacity in two hours after a very nominal release.”
He said that the release of its size would usually be adjusted a few days ago, as farmers usually have expensive agricultural equipment near the riverbank. There are also homeless places near the riverbank, and authorities will want to keep people from getting in the way.
Thursday local water administrators reported concerns to the Army officials. The Army official agreed to release less water than the original plan and delay the release until Friday.
Aaron Fukuda, a general manager in the Tulare IRRIGATION district, told the news site SJV Water that such flood releases were usually made in advance and adjusted. “I’ve done this for 18 years, but I’ve never seen this,” he said.
Peter Grick, a water scientist and senior follower of Pacific Institute, usually emits only a large amount of water in the winter, where the dam manager usually creates a large -scale storm to create a large amount of outflow. I said that. However, Southern California is very dry, and the snowman in the southern Sierra is far below average, so there is no sign of these release.
“In addition, if these types of release occur, they will always be in consultation with local and state institutions,” Gleick says.
“I don’t know where this water is heading, but it’s a wrong time to release water from these reservoirs. It’s extremely important to fill the reservoir in the rainy season, so the farm in the second half of summer. Water is now available in cities, “Gleick says. “I think it’s very strange. I’m worried that some federal government agencies have begun to operate California unilaterally after the adjustment of the local, states, and federation for decades.”
VINK agreed and said that there was no need to release such a release in the area this winter. In fact, he said that the farmers rely on the water so that they can be used for summer irrigation.
“This will hurt the farmers,” said Vink. “This removes water from their summer irrigation portfolio.”
Democratic Senator Alex Padira criticized the government’s decision and demanded an answer.
“In order to reduce the risk of flooding to local communities and farms, it is necessary to make closer adjustments with local officials, safety staff, and agricultural water users downstream to reduce the risk of floods on local communities and farms,” Padira Pete Hescess. I mentioned in a letter to the Secretary of Defense. “Based on the urgent concerns I heard from my members, it seems that the notification is very inadequate, as in recent reports, and it is recklessly in danger of downstream residents.”
Padilla asked some questions to HegSeth, such as who decided, how much prior notice was given to irrigation areas and local officials, and how the release will affect the community and landowners. did. He also said, “If the purpose of these release is to fight the mountain fire in Los Angeles County (it has already been almost completely contained), this water is not simply drained to Terea, but this water is made into Los Angeles. What is the plan to transport?
On the other hand, GOV. Gavinnewsom took other actions to adjust how the state manages water. As two storms are approaching on Friday, NewSom signed a presidential order to distribute more storms.
This order is to maximize the storage and storage of river to the water resource bureau and other state agencies, such as the San Louis reservoir, which is located south of the Sacramento Sanjo Kin River Delta, and to boost the reservoir. Instruct.
“It is more important to maximize any opportunity to charge groundwater supply,” says Newsom.
“We are also preparing to use all the last drops to enhance water supply for the entire state community and farm,” said New Sam. “By storing these rainwater, we will create a literal rainy day fund, recover from drought for multiple years, and to prepare for a hotter and dry future.”
