POk3s
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I understand that fully.
ALL TIME LOW POINT IS HERE… 3522
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Well in California they have restrictions, you have to run irrigation tubing and it releases water using a timer so you conserve as much water as possible. There is also someone that checks the system and helps with the best practice way of watering. Making sure you fix leaks and fines for non compliance. They take conserving water seriously.
Ya they take it seriously with the field sprinklers going full blast when it is pouring rain and field is under water
So are you talking farming or domestic????
And that happens how often??? This isn't pressurized water. It has to be pre-ordered. So when it starts delivery they start watering the field. If there is a sudden rain storm gully washer, they cant just shut the gates on the canals. It has to be sequential. If they all just shut their canal gates, the larger delivery canals will back up and flood. It takes a day or two to throttle the upstream order down. Otherwise everything will start backing up and over flowing all the supply canals.
All the farms aren't next to a canal much of there farms also pump water from underground reservoirs. Then the pumps run to valves that have electronic controls that allow you to set the flow rate and the timing for crops like fruits, vegetable's
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Slots-R-Us
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A while back I checked out the 1982/1983 year during a strong El Niño year. We had never before seen flooding and were building canals on roads in my hometown as they were doing in Salt Lake to deal with all the water. It was one on those once every 30-50 year type of event. The water level at Powell that year went up about 60’. Gave me a real perspective on the magnitude of the drop in lake levels and what it would take to ever recover
Eagle Rock
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Yes, we are, says everyone who ever had to look at its triple plume of NOx-stained emissions. And Navajo operations had zero impact on releases from Glen Canyon Dam, in case you were wondering.
It sucked a lot of water out at Navajo.
Yes, usually power plants needed a lot of water for cooling so I always wondered what happened to the water that was extracted and used for cooling and how it was disposed of and how that avoided cooking the animals around the outlets?
When they attempted to build a nuclear plant some miles from us here, they had to build a large cooling lake (which is still there) that was probably not easily or directly connected to the nearby river. Eventually for various reasons they abandoned the attempt and turned it into a gas burning and steam producing cogeneration power plant and it is being used but I do not know how often it runs.
Eagle Rock
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28,000 acre-feet per year, per 7 things you need to know about Navajo Generating Station’s 2019 closure - High Country News, although other sources report smaller numbers. That amounted to a little over 1/3 of 1 percent of the Upper Basin's potential/theoretical 7.5 MAF per year. Probably closer to 2/3 of 1 percent of the Upper Basin's actual consumptive use.
Still not a little bit!!
A man called horse
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According to that article none of the water is returned, so I’m assuming it goes up in steam to the atmosphere. Now that its gone maybe that has some bearing on why SW Co, has had near zero moisture this year.
The water is lost through evaporation when you heat the water to steam and it goes through the turbine turn the generator it goes to a recirculating pump to cooling tower that the air cools the water. That white billowing stuff you see is steam.