Letter: Build pipelines to handle water

Water, water everywhere in the winter and not enough to irrigate the crops in the summer. The farms are already fighting over it. I don’t believe spending billions for a study is the way. If the California State Water Resources Control Board and Army Corps of Engineers would get together and compare notes, they may be able to figure something out. They both know every bump on the levees and every sandbar or deep spot in all the rivers.

The problem seems to be the runoff via the American, Bear, and Yuba rivers during the snow melt. This can’t be stopped, but do you suppose we could make more room for it? We could do this by controlling the Sacramento and Shasta Dam water. Keep Shasta and the Sacramento River under control to make more room for the snow melt. Maybe we could build pipelines 100 miles from Shasta to the ocean controlling water in Shasta and Sacramento River. Pump it to the ocean in the winter and convert salt water to fresh and pump to Shasta in the summer. These pipes could help stop most of our flooding and summer drought throughout the valley. This saves the California Valley agriculture that goes all over the United States and beyond.

Clyde Perry
Meridian