Chapter V of the VI Part Series on The Drought

From: Lance
Date: 04 Jun 2002
Time: 22:25:41
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Chapter V of the VI Part Series on The Drought, It’s real and it is getting worse before it gets better. Got a call today from a guy ion Tulsa OK, wanting to set up a truck wash, even though they are in a drought and have two trucks washes in OKC down the street on the I-44, toll highway. Above him in Kansas it is very serious indeed. Even though we know of two major storms in KS which called fro federal Disaster Funding. http://www.fema.gov/diz02/d1402n08.htm It is feast or famine in KS. Either they get pummeled by Tornados, winds or thunderstorms or they are in severe droughts, usually both and some simultaneously. In October of 2001-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture named 41 counties in Kansas as eligible for USDA emergency farm loans due to losses caused by drought, severe storms, tornadoes, flooding, and excessive wind that occurred earlier this year. Atchison, Greeley, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jewell, Kearny, Kingman, Lane, Leavenworth, Logan, Morton, Scott, and Wichita Counties were named as primary disaster areas on October 25, 2001. Also eligible because they are contiguous, are Barber, Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas, Finney, Gove, Grant, Harper, Haskell, Jackson, Johnson, Mitchell, Ness, Osborne, Pratt, Reno, Republic, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Sherman, Smith, Stanton, Stevens, Sumner, Thomas, Wallace, and Wyandotte Counties. This is serious and the drought is causing the farmers aggregated problems. In the M states there is serious concerns too. Maine is in drought and 19 counties received farm loss funding. Maryland is also in serious shape, this article says it all http://www.sunspot.net/news/yahoo/bal-md.drought19mar19.story?coll=bal%2Dnewsaol%2Dheadlines --- In Mass. There are many sites to review, but the Governor in Mass said since Feb, there is a statewide drought and restrictions soon followed. http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/ ------ Nebraska is serious and their farmers are hating it. They even started their own group to monitor it; http://carc.nrc.state.ne.us/carcunl/ ---- Nebraska is looking at a set of overlapping problems and what to do about it. http://carc.nrc.state.ne.us/carcunl/docs/eye.html . Nebraska along I-90 and about 500 miles worth is normally lush and green, but this year it is pretty much dry and tan, this is not good. The major crops in Nebraska are corn, wheat and cattle feed. Their major cities are along rivers and generally fine, but the rest of the state is in need of a little rain. We have previously discussed NM, MT, UT, NV, AZ, OR and CA. Let us go back to the North East in New Hampshire. New Hampshire does not strike people as a place where there should be a drought, it is green and not heavily populated and the snow runs off every year leaving plenty of water for those in need in reviers and streams as well as lots of underground at reletively low depths for wellsIn March of this year we saw real problems of here is some of our research back from Mar. we posted on this board; http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/box.htm ---- In New Jersey in March it was no difference http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2872661.htm --- http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2842075.htm ---- http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2794394.htm --- And PA and NJ are in the same boat. --------- In NY same exact problem and the mayor in March declared a drought in NYC ---- http://www.carwashguys.com/tour_hydrant.shtml ------ itself and placed on water restrictions. ---------- And what is happening south of there in North Carolina? http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/local/2882779.htm read for yourself. Remember a few years ago the flooding, well how do you like the opposite. I can remember the heaviest rain I have ever seen was in NC during a Hurricane many moons ago. Today we have the opposite problem and new residences causing many new problems, due to resources during this drought. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/weather/ These issues are considered to be hanging around for a while longer. As we have previously discussed about Oregon, lots of green when I went through there three weeks ago along I-5 and the coastal regions, but not too far off of the main highway you will see a different OR, one of bare streams and little tiny rivers. They are in desperate need of water. The Klamath River is in dispute with the Indians over who actually gets how much of it. Also along the damn, boaters for recreation are not allowed in the locks, to save water in the river. This may seem trivial at first, but do not forget the city needs it’s power too and the barges have to bring the wheat down stream. We are concerned in the Portland area about water for washing as any restrictions will hurt us. On the eastern side similar problems in PA, with boating, electricity and rivers. And among other things check this out ---- http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/pbz.htm --- This was indicated and this statement prevailed in March; "The Pennsylvania and Maryland departments of environment protection continue the drought watch for these areas due to long-term dry conditions. Over the past two months rainfall has been well below normal, and over the past six months precipitation has been slightly below normal in northwest Pennsylvania and well below normal in southwest Pennsylvania and Garrett county Maryland. The focus of a drought watch is on increased monitoring...awareness and preparation for response if conditions worsen. A request for voluntary water conservation is also made with an objective of reducing water usage by 5 to 10 percent." Although even with all this many manufacturing companies some of the largest users were allowed no restrictions, due to the commercial need and the economy which is also in a world of hurt since 9-11. ---------------- http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/2835818.htm ----------------- http://library.northernlight.com/doc ------------------ The water experts are asking these utility companies share the water including the Nuclear Power Plants, which obviously have to have the water to cool reactors. “Schuylkill County lines should be ready to distribute supplies better during droughts, engineer says, Gerry McClenahan, The Morning Call” in March 19, 2002. --------------------------- Even the prison system is fighting over water asking for more. Complaining that inmates might riot if they could take longer than three-minute showers. South Carolina has also been getting rain but hardly enough --------- http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/gsp.htm ---------- These small rain days hardly alleviate the drought issue that has been off and on for 8 years now and currently a major problem. Here is an old article from back in 1999, ---- http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sco/drought/release081199.html --------- http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sco/drought.html -------- http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sco/drought_info.html ---------------- It appears that South Carolina has their shit together. ---------------------------- Here is the Tennessee Drought Information, http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/impacts/us/tennessee.htm ----------- Tennessee had nearly every county collect on the USDA Farm subsidies 13 counties then 41 counties, every county. --------------------------- Anyone want to talk Texas? According to The National Weather Service things are hurting in Brownsville, McCallen, Harlingen, etc. ------- http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/bro.htm ----- Dry conditions continue across Deep South Texas despite some short-term relief... Spotty showers have been evident along the coastal sections. Rainfall amounts were very light. Rainfall totals for the month were below normal. Monthly rainfall ranged from 0.08 of an inch at falcon dam...to 1.02 inches at Harlingen. February was the 12th consecutive month of below normal rainfall at the Brownsville weather office. Deep South Texas was experiencing moderate drought conditions, now it is getting a little more serious. Up North of there in Corpus Cristi; http://www.carwashguys.com/tour_corpchristi.shtml -------- According to this article: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/crp.htm -------- Dry weather prevailed across the region since early December. Rainfall amounts for the year to date in many locations remain below one-half inch. Sparse amounts of up to two inches have occurred in a few locations. During the last week coastal areas received about one-quarter of an inch of rain...but other locations saw much less. Any additional rainfall will be welcome to farmers...who continue with spring planting… and moderately wet conditions over eastern sections of south Texas… with limited rainfall during the last two weeks... Rivers and creeks continue to remain within their banks. As of march 4th...lake Corpus Christi was at 93.6 feet which is 97.1 percent of capacity. Choke canyon reservoir is at 199.7 feet, which is 39.2 percent of capacity. The combined system total now stands at 54.0 percent… as of march 2...a low to moderate fire danger exists over south Texas… over the central and western sections... Many locales continue to monitor water usage closely and have programs in place to encourage efficient use of water resources. The watering of lawns is discouraged between the hours of 10 am to 6 pm to reduce unnecessary emergency (EM) farm loans due to losses caused by various weather disasters earlier this year… 47 counties, including: Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Glasscock, Hardeman, Hidalgo, Howard, Jim Hogg, Kent, Kleberg, Maverick, Starr, and Zapata Counties. Also eligible because they are contiguous, are Borden, Brooks, Cameron, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Duval, Fisher, Foard, Garza, Gray, Hall, Jim Wells, Kenedy, King, Kinney, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Motley, Nueces, Reagan, Scurry, Sterling, Stonewall, Upton, Uvalde, Webb, Wilbarger, Wilacy, Wheeler and Zavala Counties. As we continually review this data we are finding a common thread to the information that many water rights Billionaire Buyers know. There is more to this than you think. Also of interest is the Midland Odessa area. ----- http://www.aircraftwashguys.com/tour3.shtml ----- http://www.tractorwashguys.com/petroleum.shtml ----------- Moderate long-term drought continues across portions of southwest Texas west of a midland to Dryden line... No precipitation was reported across west Texas or southeast new Mexico during the week of March 5-11… Fire danger indicates the ease in which fires can start and continue... with the lack of moisture being one of the main factors. As of March 11... 10-hour fuel moistures were in the 1-2 percent range over all of southeast New Mexico...the upper trans Pecos...the Guadalupe and Davis mountains... and much of the big bend region. 10-hour fuel moistures were in the 3-4 percent range across the Permian basin and the extreme eastern big bend area. 100-hour fuel moistures were 5 percent or less area wide. The lack of recent precipitation... combined with the dry air... and warm temperatures have resulted in extreme fire danger over the entire area. Continued above normal temperatures and dry weather are forecast across west Texas and southeast New Mexico through this weekend. Also let us take a look at El Paso too, they are running dry as well, and their population base is significant and so is the Mexico side. There is going to be a water war for sure. --------- http://www.carwashguys.com/tour_elpaso.shtml ------- http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/impacts/us/texas.htm Here are some more links to our research pages we have been reviewing: http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/ ------- http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/water/ ------ http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/ --------- http://www.nass.usda.gov/tx/index.htm ------- http://twri.tamu.edu/ ------- Here is the information on Utah, not too bad this year, but do not start counting chickens either. http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/impacts/us/utah.htm ----- Virginia is not pretty in March, Ground water storage was well below what is normally expected during this time of year. Public ground water supply systems are not severely affected at this time...however some private well problems are occurring… reservoirs across the region are below normal pool level. Lake Anna reservoir is only releasing one-half of its normal amounts. Reservoirs such as Kerr Lake are about 1 foot below and expected to decline further before the end of March. Voluntary water restrictions are still in effect in the Hampton roads area… periodic precipitation would need to continue into the spring season in order to eliminate drought concerns this spring and summer. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought/akq.htm ---- For more information go to: http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/impacts/us/virginia.htm ----- In Washington State they are saying a Giant Damn could solve their dilemmas. http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcsupply/2giadam2.html ---- I wonder if the environmentalists are going to like this? ----------- I guess we should be thankful we do not live in the Middle East if you think we have problems you should see theirs, they are running out of water and soon it may be contaminated by fallout? The Water supply is tightest in the Middle East. Of all the countries, only Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Emirates can afford the energy required for large scale desalination at present energy costs and with present technology. The water is supplied to agriculture at a subsidized price, because these countries want to develop agriculture. In the long run, all these countries will be rich enough to afford desalination if that turns out to be the most effective way to get the water. Israel is the country that has developed the most technology for irrigating crops as economically as possible. This is all for now hope you enjoy the links and learn more about water. Lance.

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