Water - real truth

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Originally Posted by Paul65K

Joey,

If you were to move here you would be a Havasu Boater.......we can tell :D........Havasu water levels stay fine, as we are fed from Mead and need to have no more than a 2-3' difference to keep our little dam producing the electricity that is clearly needed.

Even if you moved to Vegas cuz we know you love it there all the cool folks boat on Havasu so you'd likely be making the 2 hour drive for some "Real Boating"...............which brings us back to why you won't be leaving FL cuz right now you just go out your back door :D

Looks like you guys will be relegated to 3 or 4 trips a year to Vegas for some serious fun and do your boating in the Atlantic :thumb:


PS............if we would just stop sending some large percentage of the water in the Colorado river to Mexico (by treaty) we'd have plenty of water for the western states............but that would be a political statement and I just won't do that here :hilarious:

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Paul, I'm a real estate guy, that's what I did for a living before the 2008 crash, lucky I sold my company in 2006, no, I'm not that smart, just got lucky and sold at the right time, anyway, I know there's a great deals in the Vegas area and have been half ass looking, you are correct we would boat on Havasu, but if there's not going to be water to boat or my domestic water bill is $300 a month I'll think twice about it, that's what is prompting the inquiry.................btw, thanks everybody.

And I agree, the gubment is a mess and you don't want to get me going, hotboat would put both of us on double secret probation.

Here in Havasu our water bill averages $68 a month, which includes sewer and trash pick-up. It's just the wife and I and we don't have a pool and don't over irrigate, it seem's like a lot of people over irrigate and then complain about their water bill. From what I'm told they cannot drop Havasu more then 6-7 feet because of the water intakes for S. Cal are surface intakes. So Havasu would be the last to dry up in the chain on the Colo. river. Why people have lawns in the southwest is .................. Now it's time to fill the coolers and get on the Lake!

I live in southern Cal about 15 minutes from Mateo and my water bill is under $100 a month. The local construction sites still waste tons of water keeping the dust down (by law) so what does that say....

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Originally Posted by Slacker

Here in Havasu our water bill averages $68 a month, which includes sewer and trash pick-up. It's just the wife and I and we don't have a pool and don't over irrigate, it seem's like a lot of people over irrigate and then complain about their water bill. From what I'm told they cannot drop Havasu more then 6-7 feet because of the water intakes for S. Cal are surface intakes. So Havasu would be the last to dry up in the chain on the Colo. river. Why people have lawns in the southwest is .................. Now it's time to fill the coolers and get on the Lake!

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Seems out West a rock garden would be the best plan, why further aggravate a bad situation.

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Originally Posted by Sharp shooter

I live in southern Cal about 15 minutes from Mateo and my water bill is under $100 a month. The local construction sites still waste tons of water keeping the dust down (by law) so what does that say....

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Old saying, "do as I say, not as I do"

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Originally Posted by Slacker

Here in Havasu our water bill averages $68 a month, which includes sewer and trash pick-up. It's just the wife and I and we don't have a pool and don't over irrigate, it seem's like a lot of people over irrigate and then complain about their water bill. From what I'm told they cannot drop Havasu more then 6-7 feet because of the water intakes for S. Cal are surface intakes. So Havasu would be the last to dry up in the chain on the Colo. river. Why people have lawns in the southwest is .................. Now it's time to fill the coolers and get on the Lake!

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Recently I read that Mead and Powell are designated reservoirs and its why their levels fluctuate so dramatically. Mohave and Havasu have different designations and have systems that require levels to be maintained to operate. Havasu seemed to be quite full all summer long.

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Originally Posted by Ziggy

Havasu seemed to be quite full all summer long.

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That's bc of the very efficient beer recycling program they operate in the channel. 😝


CH3NO2

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Originally Posted by Stainless

That's bc of the very efficient beer recycling program they operate in the channel. ��


CH3NO2

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I know that system well, "beer in............beer out" you never really buy a beer, you only rent it.......................lol

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Originally Posted by 314joey

I know that system well, "beer in............beer out" you never really buy a beer, you only rent it.......................lol

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It's like laundering money :D:D

The situation is so serious now, that HM no longer needs floaties :hilarious:

Anyways, been following the water wars for years, ever since I had to locate and interview Floyd Dominy, the old guy in the first video. His arch nemesis was David Brower from the Sierra Club. Both of them went at it until they died (Dominy just a few years back). Dominy got me hooked, his passion about water was addictive.

Anyhow, there is an excellent PBS special and book named Cadillac Desert. Find it if you can, a great read and great documentary. Too bad Marc Reisner died before his predictions came to fruition.

YT has a cool series, from the dam collapse at Magic Mountain, to stripping the Bishop area via Owens Lake/Los Angeles Aqueduct, lots of good history nuggets in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbebOhnCjA

I watched the whole thing.....................WOW, I've got to find the rest of them, very interesting.................................maybe I should stay right here where I can almost look out my back door at the Gulf of Mexico.