You actually want to restore the river to be more resilient as the earth warms, fish returning empowers many other parts of a river ecosystem.
replyInstall dedicated water tanks to store water, evaporation rates are much less.
Most of the folks on the forum are not engineers, you can't expect them to understand the downstream effects of their decisions.
reply> You actually want to restore the river to be more resilient as the earth warms, fish returning empowers many other parts of a river ecosystem.
replyDams can make rivers more resilient.
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replyYes and no. Most of the dam removals are 100-200yo old low head damns that fed mill ponds so they weren't really holding anything back when there was high demand.
replyThaaaaaat said, moving from "slap up a damn somewhere" based stormwater management to local stormwater management is probably gonna go down in history as one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of environmentalism in the wet eastern half of the country (the desert west where aquifer replenishment is a concern is a different story)
At this point there isn’t much additional space you could dam without adverse impacts. The flood barriers for New York at the mouth to the Atlantic were rejected both for being too costly and for screwing everyone outside the dams.
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