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THANKS TO RAIN
On the very day Tim Flannery foresaw Sydney’s dams running dry (“the ongoing drought could leave Sydney’s dams dry in just two years”), the city’s catchment was boosted to 36.9% capacity. And we’ve had nothing but juicy dam-filling rain ever since:
The water level in Sydney’s dam network could top 45 per cent full this week for the first time since 2004, thanks to rain, and showers are expected to continue until Monday. Two dams, Tallowa and the Nepean, are spilling water.
Following Flannery’s prophesied date of dryness, the amount of water in our dams has increased by some 202,500 megalitres. Two dams are overflowing.
CORRECTION. My mistake; two dams aren’t overflowing. Make it three:
The Authority says another 23 millimetres fell over the Warragamba catchment, 18 mm over the Nepean catchment and 39 mm in the Shoalhaven overnight.
As a result, the Nepean, the Fitzroy and the Tallowa Dams are overflowing.
Spilling water??!!?!? What a waste! There ought to be a law against that!
/leftie “feels good” direction change
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 20 at 02:49 PM • permalinkDon’t they know that we’re running out of water? Don’t they know that “It’s our water!” (A stupid public service message in Spokane, (The other)WA).
I have it on good authority that the earth is leaking water into space and we’ll never be able to replace it, ever again. And the worst part is that as we waste the water, water vapor will leave the atmosphere and we’ll freeze because we have no more greenhouse gasses!
#5 & 6. Mike, I wonder how long it will take for them to realise that overflowing or evaporating water is not wasted, it’s just moving through the cycle.
Nothing is wasted when dams spill, but when it happens at system levels as low as they are now, it is proof that we need more storage to cope with today’s and future populations.
In a well-planned infrastructure, our dam capacities would be large enough to cope with long droughts and flooding rains.
It can be done, and has been done in the past.Y’all need to put your unemployed, sick and lame to good use.
They should be bussed down to the banks of the various feed rivers and/or the banks of the reservoirs to drink up as much of the water as possible so it doesn’t go to waste.
Actually, they could form a sort of chain. Drink it up where it’s too plentiful and then get transported to where it’s too dry to pee it out. Shake it off and repeat as necessary.
Look, he’s still a young man, drunk on hubris, I wish him many more years in which to learn through humiliation the folly of rash predictions, as we all do. Let’s stick to the facts:
I just learned that in the Wangaratta/Mt Beauty/Bright area of my fair state they have had three, “once-in-fifty-year” frosts, in the past twelve months.
“Damn this global warming!” gets such a laugh anywhere you go.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 06 20 at 07:41 PM • permalinkDams overflowing? Who’d a thunk it, just part of the natural cycle after all there is not one drop of water on the planet that is not recycled.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 20 at 08:49 PM • permalinkTallowa Dam - I designed that little fucker back in the ‘70s.
Glad to see it’s still in service
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 20 at 10:23 PM • permalink#12 - Tallowa dam is just up the road from here, (well OK theres a mountain in the way as well), that dam is supplying a huge chunk of Sydneys water these days, which explains why the Shoalhaven River is in a little strife.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 21 at 02:50 AM • permalink
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Good thing he didn’t predict rain, otherwise we’d have to start building arks.