It sounds like an obvious fix for California’s whipsawing cycles of deluge and drought: Capture the water from downpours so it can be used during dry spells. But it's not quite that easy. Here's why.
Laura Deyermond looks at a drying reservoir at Newton Vineyards in St. Helena, Calif., July 23, 2021.
During last month’s drenching storms, some water districts got the state’s green light to take floodwater only as the rains were ending, allowing them to siphon off just a few days’ worth. Others couldn’t take any at all because floods overwhelmed their equipment. The trillions of gallons of water that have fallen over California this winter have broken the state’s driest three-year stretch on record. But they have hardly guaranteed it an easy ride the next time precipitation goes scarce.
Even in this wet winter, however, the pilot projects the state has approved have managed to capture just a trickle of their potential. Another complaint: The process is too slow and cumbersome to help corral big floods that come, like this winter’s, out of the blue. The Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, northwest of Sacramento, got a permit Jan. 23, less than three weeks after applying. That allowed the district to grab only a few days’ water before flows down the local river, Cache Creek, tapered off, said Kristin Sicke, the district’s general manager.
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