[BC] Station for Sale

[R A Meuser]

This is all too true. I visit these areas every year after NAB and am 
too familiar with the situation. There are still groups trying to tear 
down the dam that created Lake Powell which is the other side of the 
Grand Canyon upstream from Lake Mead near Page Arizona and part of the 
Colorado River system.

If you want a stark example look at Owens Lake.  That's right you can't 
because it is a vast dry area sucked dry almost 100 years ago by the Los 
Angeles Department of Water and Power. At one time steam ships plied 
that lake delivering ore from the Death Valley area. The Owens Valley 
above the lake has long suffered what is just beginning in Nevada. Even 
far to the north Mono Lake is being drawn down as are other lakes that 
feed into it, some of them in Nevada.

Since all this water is from run off, global warming the future is not 
looking good.



Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Agreed...just look at the battle brewing between Las Vegas and the 
> ranchers to the north.  LV's water district is buying water rights 
> and/or land as fast as they can in order to secure the aquifer supplying 
> greater LV.  They've reached their limit of drawing from Lake Meade as I 
> understand.  Further, the lake is nearly 100 ft. below normal and 150 
> ft. below food stage...which it did 15 or so years ago.
> 
> Hoover can't be shut down as there is the water sharing treaty from the 
> 1930's which prevents that from occurring.  The treaty involves a number 
> of states from Wyoming to California.
> 
> Local ranchers north of LV are seeing their wells drop precipitously and 
> have filed suit after suit against the practice of "calculating the 
> available quantity of the water" under the land as a means to determine 
> what can be pumped from an acre.
> 
> What the LV water district ultimately accomplishes by buying water 
> rights is shutting out any development in those areas and depressing the 
> land value of everything around those properties.  The only winners here 
> are water district, as it can then go in by eminent domain and pay a 
> reduced amount for the land they're seeking, and the water hogging super 
> hotels and businesses which simply pay a premium for the continued flow 
> of water.  Never mind that most homes in LV have a back-yard pool
> 
> I feel really sorry for the 20 million or so people living along and 
> relying on the Colorado as that area is on a slippery slope of self 
> destruction due to the lack of water, electrical capacity, and other 
> thinning natural resources.  I see a day in the future where Colorado 
> will dam the river at it's border if the drought in the high lands 
> doesn't ease. That would leave a LOT of people in a lurch for certain....
> 
> MM
> 
> At 10:02 AM 10/7/2007 -0500, Gary Glaenzer wrote
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Fybush" <scott at fybush.com>
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>> >  (I seem to recall one of
>> > the locals telling me there were issues with water rights down south
>> > that affected development potential there as well.)
>> >