Building a New Reservoir to Supply 825,000 People with Water! 

States often make those decisions because they are caring about you and ALSO the people who are not you, something that you don’t do or even have the information to do. There is certainly a lot of government corruption and I’m sure I wouldn’t agree with the way the water was being used (because it probably went to the wealthy) these sorts of programs are far more needed than you’re giving it credit or presenting it as. “My rain water” isn’t a thing, rainwater is a resource, when everyone in the state is relying on it, why do the homes under the rainstorm get to profit off of the poorer people living in dryer plots simply because the people living under the storm were selfish and couldn’t see past their own nose? You should be worried about your state properly using the natural resource to satisfy your needs and ALL your neighbors needs, be upset at how they misuse instead of DEMANDING that you be the one to misuse the resource. Because if we are being truly honest with ourselves, what twisted world do you live in to think you could make equal use of it? It’s very short sighted

Just keep it anyway. We live in the mountains in CO and we collect rainwater. Come and arrest us. The big problem here is Denver/Boulder Front Range gapes dictating things for the mountains. The Denver/Boulder gapers should stay on the Great Plains where they belong. Lowly, city, Great Plains dwellers. Stay out of our mountains.

Now in Toronto, Ontario the foolish voters elected a Socialist Chinese woman who barely speaks English, and already they are pushing a new “ rain tax” so that property owners have to pay for the amount of rain that FALLS FROM THE SKY ONTO THEIR PROPERTY. You know that “ air tax” is very near…

That us weird. Because rain water is used to water lawns and gardens! It goes back into the water table same as it would have.

Watering lawns is a waste of

is it as fun as it looks? just big kids playing with big toys?

Thank you for being one of the Operators out of an operating Engineer UNION. 😊 I started in are Local back before everyone of the guys came back home from Alaska Pipeline Job. In the 1970s I loved the different big excavator back then, you know the ONES ( air over Hydraulic control) I did a lot of mainline sewers. I ran the Hoe packs, but I talked with the operator of many different excavators, and boy there was many different control patterns back then. On one we had a big (Poclain) it had 4 levels together with a foot pedal on the base of two of them for foot or hand control like a rubber tired backhoe had, plus two other levers on each side a little higher than the 4 levers. I worked behind a big 1266 old school ( Koehring) The control patterns on that were so interesting, the AIR button on the two big Levers for swing and boom, my biggest sewer job or should say longest was working hoe pack behind a big Bucyrus Erie 350 excavator 😊 man she had power in hard pan. We changed our digging teeth like twice a day. There were all these little AIR hoses going up into the bottom of the two control levers. Myself what I used for the hoe pack was the first old Case 680-C with the terrible Airbrake system. The old girl would lock up the emergency brake if you used the rear wheel a lot to help you single brake steer with back tires. They brought in a new 190 Dynahoe, so I started digging side sewer stubs with her. I Love the Dynahoe so much 😊 in 2003 I bought an old used one. It had close to 8000 hours on meter. I have put hundreds of hours on her just around my property it's my TOY. Other than Hydraulic seals leaking and having to overhaul rear brakes when I bought her. Never have done anything to the old Detroit Diesel (353) she just keeps working for me. Getting back to my UNION work, all the A list guys came back from Alaska, so work thinned out for me I switched to Utilities and ran a small water system then finished my last 15 years ( Road Farming) for a city PWs. I Loved to sewer jobs working in the late 70s For operating Engineers. 😊 I watch this young guy's video and I'm like you miss those big digging jobs.

I know I love those big jobs man / in joy you’re retirement

@rp1645 Thank you rp I worked out of LOCAL 542 PENNSYLVANIA learned on older equipment for my relatives they A Bucyrus Erie 15/30 H hoes air over hydraulic remember cab was opposite of today's cabs also had a HienWarner hoe Cable pans pony motors dozer had to hand crank to tilt blade great memories made me a better OE and when I retired was running dozens and Graders with GPS my how times have changed I loved my job got to meet a lot of great people take care 🙂 😀 👍

@floydwilliams3321 Thank you Floyd

liberals to lazy and cry it hurts the animals .

Well don't vote Republican

this isn't for the benefit of us citizens.

This Country is doomed. We've been sold out by our "leaders".

You are shallow and a liar or simply stupid

Why? I mean, one can be happy, that necessary infrastructure is build. But what has the size to do with that? The size is a condition of the demand, nothing more. If it would fit, ten reservoirs of a tenth of this size would be equally good?

@@SunSailor I think sending water to one location is cheaper and has less environmental impact. I wished they could have added hydro electric generators to the reservoir.

@@SunSailor Size does matter. There are more people than there were when the last big projects were done (Interstate System and Hoover Dam).

Especially since it isn't going to drastically affect any rivers, fish migration, etc.

Agreed

And Mexico

The southern Nevada water authority is illegally buying grazing rights to federal lands in northern Nevada. They've been shut down by courts building water lines to southern Nevada to move northern Nevada ground water to Las Vegas, but they're still scheming.

Wow I also wonder how this will effect the already over burdened Colorado river basin.

Idk. Living in a desert has its drawbacks i guess…

Well. The front range gapes already dictate a lot of the asinine policies tearing this state to shreds. Libtards in Boulder/Denver voting to reintroduce wolves into the high country ranch areas for example. Maybe we should drop a few wolves down at city park and the library in Boulder and see how these c***suc*** like it? Not surprising that theyre now stealing our water as well. There is Colorado. Real Colorado. And then there's Denver/Boulder/Front Range. "Scum" would be too nice of a term for those Great Plains flatland city folk.

I think they get ALL the beers 🍻🍻🍺🍻🍻

Those guys are some fast pace ass busters! They go sun up till sun down all summer where I live. 5:30 AM till 10:00 PM, nonstop grind. I take my hat off to those guys.

🚬♨ How many cigarettes per day do they save?

Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. The fucking country is devastated in all extent of the environment . The Good Damned EPA and Federal Technocracy are communist hate toward anything America. I cant even imagine aa Damn being built in Gay Colorado, the land of the Blue horse. They diverted Billions of gallons to the Desert Flood Irrigation farms in Kalipornia.

where is it? I live in FC

Is this south of Denver along the hogback?

​@erichouck9487 You live in FC but don't know where Carter lake is?

@@everthic I do know where Carter lake is. I just didn't know this was going on

@@erichouck9487 I'll stop being a prick and agree with you, I didn't know it was going on either, and I'm in Loveland

I was gonna say, I thought I saw this already.

you got that right

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We bought it back at the start of the 20th century to make irrigated farms in Northern Colorado back when Western Colorado didn't need it. Buy it back if you want it now.

@@edeancozzens3833 bought it cheap before everyone would contest it. Now the population on the front range is blaming farming out west, growing alfalfa on water use. No one looks at how much water is siphoned off thru diversion projects, flows east. Water that never , naturally flowed that way.

So you voted for it?

Dam right it is!!

Lol

@@TheBirdFlu666 big beavers are good!

@@TheBirdFlu666 Beaver size has increased dramatically over the years. That's why HBO and the like only show bananas but will never show a beaver, unless it's covered with a fake wig.

​@@trainnerd3029Go Oregon !😮

Yup, politics aside I am glad to see that we passed the Infrastructure act in 2022 and got some new money into it. I grew up talking to my neighbor about how he helped build some of the large electrical transmission lines across a handful of states.

Description says $700 million but there will be over runs of course.

@@UnoDos96complete fraudulent bill only 2% was dedicated to infrastructure the rest went to destroying our Energy Sector with phony Green Energy policies and funding those groups ontop of causing the highest inflation we have seen in 40 years.

It would would really surprise me if it was under a billion ​@blauer2551

Neglected infrastructure has caught up. Thank you previous generations for only caring about profits.

DEMOCRAT SHITHOLE RUST BELT. NO OPPORTUNITY

If they we smart they would make it concrete, and hydroelectric...

Cherry Creek, Chatfield, McClellan, South Platte, Horsetooth,Timnath,Windsor,Lonetree,Welch,Hertha,Dry Creek these are some of the reservoirs close to Denver and quite a few lakes also not mentioned

@@1STGeneral all small bodies of water* biggest body of water is blue mesa but its over a 2 hour drive

@CashMoney5280 I didn't see any mention of size in your original post just lack of reservoirs and lakes. No big deal I moved when California showed up

Building another one near Hartsel in central Colorado. Holding reservoir for Aurora's water.

"YOUR 30 TO 40 YEARS BEHIND ON WATER STORAGE"? I THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH CALIFORNIA FLIPPING FROM REPUBLICAN POLITICS TO A DUMOCRAT LEFTISTS AGENDA DURING THE LAST 30 TO 40 YEARS! WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

You wouldn't feel that way, if your home was condemned by eminent domain and stolen.

we are currently in Russell on a Solar Farm Project

You need fewer people, lawns and golf courses.

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Yea so practical engineering can actually explain it better, video was all over the place and confusing

The plan is to force you to depend on the State.

Probably depends on where you live and what the legal situation is vis a vis water rights.

You're the most fun person you know, aren't you?

And yet, for some odd reason(😉), California can't comprehend the concept of desalination with an ocean to their west. Maybe some of those in Israel who have the concept of such need to educate the water commission in California.🤦‍♂️

Environmental wackos probably found some angle worms that would get drowned if you saved that water.

Oh Cali the only state that lets billions of gallons of water drain off into the ocean. Gotta love it

I think there was a fish population in the Sacramento/San Joukine delta , plus the Salmon run to the upper Sacramento.@@arvbergstedt3303

No a problem, amigo. The way California is bleeding out people, you'll have more than enough water for all 700,000 left in a couple years.

They are building another one near Hartsel Colorado..I pretty sure i too is 90,000.

Do you have a better way to fasten a concrete form?

You don't screw nails.

One new reservoir starting in California soon. On March 10th 2024, President Biden signed a package of bills that included $205 million in construction funding for Sites Reservoir, a proposed $4.5 billion project planned for the rolling ranchlands west of the town of Maxwell, about 70 miles north of Sacramento.