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Thanks to President Trump and the Republican Congress, California will get an expansion of the Shasta Dam. It should be noted that the Democrats, led by Governor Brown OPPOSED this—they prefer government created water shortages. Even though California voted against Trump by a wide margin, he is not throwing us to the dogs—he is doing what he can to protect us—unlike Brown and his buddies.
“Earlier this year Congress set aside about $20 million for pre-construction work and design on the dam raise.
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All of this could have be done a few years ago when the California voters gave Sacramento the money for this and other water projects==but Brown and the Democrats prefer fish to people and REFUSED to fix or expand this dam. The Oroville dam and others. We do not have a lack of water, we have a surplus of government.
Should I be happy that my money has to be used to correct their problem - especially when money was given to them for that specific issue? No.
But at some point, mature adults step in because letting the problem go would cause a bigger headache.
With enthusiastic support from Westlands, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress want to raise the dam 18½ feet to store more water and guard against losing farmland to future droughts. Some farmers in the valley received no water at all from the Central Valley Project for two straight years during the five-year drought that ended with the winter of 2016-17.
Proponents also argue that raising Shasta would aid salmon runs decimated by its original construction in the 1940s, by storing more cold water to help the remaining downstream fish survive.
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The project has been on the boards for years, but President Barack Obama’s administration shelved it because it would flood part of the McCloud River. California law protects the river as wild and scenic because it sustains “one of the finest wild trout fisheries in the state.”
Raising the dam won’t increase the snow or rain falling in Northern California.
It’s true that as climate changes, there will have to be massive changes to water management in the western states. But if the water isn’t there in the first place, raising the dam won’t help the farmers.
In other words, it doesn’t matter how big your bathtub is if your water service is turned off.
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