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If the reports are correct, Trump has ordered 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) of #water released from these reservoirs. That water will, mostly, be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water in the reservoir are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it. Anticipate legal chaos over water allocations in the summer. #cawater
@petergleick
Absolutely horrific. Why would the federal government have control over this? It would be the State, correct?
@lin11c @petergleick Which entity controls the dams?
@Nazani @petergleick
I would think it is the State. If the farmers own the water.
https://water.ca.gov/programs/all-programs/division-of-safety-of-dams
@lin11c @Nazani @petergleick Trump sent members of the Corps of Engineers in there to do this, apparently.
@petergleick
OK thank you.
@petergleick @lin11c
Engineers who almost certainly knew that the water was not being directed where anyone might want it. So I guess we can assume they'll be willing to inflict flood or drought on any region Trump is displeased with.
@Nazani @petergleick
I remember them doing really shitty things during the Standing Rock protests.
"The lawsuit, filed in October, accuses the Army Corps of illegally allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline to operate without an easement, an environmental impact study or robust emergency spill response plans. The tribe wants a federal court to order that the pipeline be shut down.Dec 24, 2024"