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They have no capacity to store this year's runoff when the massive snowpack starts to melt. Might as well play with the fishes. "At this point what difference does it make?"

It's not like they could build new reservoirs in a month even if they wanted to.

They could pump it into the watershed. What runs back into the reservoir you just keep pumping until the watershed is full.

Tenpoundbass says

They could pump it into the watershed. What runs back into the reservoir you just keep pumping until the watershed is full.

I think it goes there naturally, no?

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RWSGFY says

I think it goes there naturally, no?

No some goes back to the water shed as it makes it's way to lower ground, rivers, canals, streams, creeks and ditches, eventually making it's way into the Ocean, or Reservoirs.
What I mean, is to keep pumping the water from the reservoir into lower ground above stream, flooding out an area, that is over the aquifer, and let it seep into the ground, and keep pumping it and keeping those low laying areas saturated until the aquifer is full.

Looks like there's 30 or 40 feet still left. Plus its spread over a larger area than is what already there. There's room for tons of more water.

RWSGFY says

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I've been there. Nice to see it full-ish again.

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Nice to see the West like California are doing a lot better as far as drought conditions. Look at west of Rocky Mountains in Colorado, its all clear of drought.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

Florida panhandle finally is out of drought conditions.

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ad says

Nice to see the West like California are doing a lot better as far as drought conditions. Look at west of Rocky Mountains in Colorado, its all clear of drought.

We never had a drought. The water commissioner here ordered all reservoirs to be repaired at the same time, last year, all the waterfall runoff was sent into the ocean.

In 6 months time, this government will be screaming about a drought again, and in 6 more months after that, they will be claiming that reservoirs are overflowing. There's no truth in our government or press. They constantly are screaming about a panic, and they are knowingly lying about it. Actual crises are caused by the government, and it's unending.

Nearly all the problems we face in society are created by the government, not by nature.

Tenpoundbass says

flooding out an area, that is over the aquifer

Which aquifer are you speaking about in CA? Beyond the snow pack runoff that flows out of the sierras, once you hit the central valley, at this point it's more like a squashed grapefruit.

It's not like porous limestone, full of holes that you can easily fill up. After all of the pumping that's gone of over the last decade and a half it's pretty much done.

The California aquifer depletion has been politicized and is a cash cow for industry and Ag use winners, and the Politicians they donate too.
There's plenty of aquifer replenishing projects in the works. Even some that mirror my suggestions and are already in the works. All the folks that says it's not possible are the NPR, Nat Geo and Slater writers.
To say "Uh this wont work, lets just pump it back out into the ocean!" is Ludacris I think. Even if they did nothing but built a network of canals and pumped it to water demanding areas. Would be more beneficial than just sending it out to the sea.