PG&E Water Emergency UPDATE 29 April 2024 Nevada County CA. 

That's what you get what you "privatize" essential services. This all needs to be returned to control of the state and get rid of the for profit elements.

@@weschilton you think a government-run agency that can't be sued would be more efficient?

@@weschilton Yeah we have the same problem in the UK with privatised water companies.

@@weschiltonthis has nothing to do with privatization, but all to do with the Byzantine rules, regulations and costs in California. The notion that the incompetent, corrupt, bloated state and its unions will do a better job is mistaken. The first thing that would happen is that workers would spend weeks in DEI courses as the state continues to crater.

My favroite saying from Mark Twain: "Whiskey for drinking, water is for fighting over". The water movement infrastructure is aging. 😢

Good ole California the peoples republic

Their negligence cost us over 50 MbF of our best timber. But their quarterly report was great! 🤬🤬🤬

I propose an entity that gets to keep Diablo Canyon, the hydro projects, the geothermal projects and the gas fired plants. The other entity can have the wind and solar farms… and can inherit the current management team.

@@BrownEyePinch Shall we take a peek at Tejus... How about Louisiana?

@@BrownEyePinchlazy comment Harry, do better

It works for the hearings in DC

no accountability at any level😢

Juan is THE MAN!

Being from the east coast where we don’t have water availability problems (typically) it’s amazing what has been done in CA to bring water to places there isn’t any. Astounding.

WOW....yes what an infrastructure system.....both water and electricity.... the first few graphs Juan posted pertaining to the "system" looked absolutely mind boggling... I think it's not that we "forget" about the systems, I think it's that we just don't understand what's involved...so complicated.

@@tim850csi and some of the water ways were hand dug by gold miners in the mid 1800's. So the generators today are where a lot of mining/hydroliking activity took place.

Hahaha, "it works fine as long as nothing breaks" 🤣

Negligence could be a crime.

The government protects these scummy utilities

There is money available from ARP

ALL utilities are like that. I used to run a company that inspected utilities infrastructure, it's horrific and they just don't care at all - in fact, they absolutely don't want to know about problems.

They are political, so, yes.

The right question ! $$$$$$$

They've been trying to put out fires...

Apparently a lot of discussions without actually doing anything productive.

I am sure they would tell us “we’re working very hard”. But as Winston Churchill said, “It is no use saying ‘We are doing our best.’ You have to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

Stop yer whining.... you want lights when you turn on the light switch dont cha?

Seems Fate Did That and with the initiation of a power company possibly of not expecting an act of God...

@@terrancestodolka4829 An act of what? A fairy tale?

@@glennschlorf1285 Try using common sense which I know is hard for the left. They could bury the lines.

The CEO's house is fine

i totally understand Juan. I still look forward to your updates on this profound story. @OfficialBlancoliriob

And probably the #1 biggest water users in the state are the billionaire philanthropic Resnicks of SoCal with their almonds and pistachios in the central valley. Anyone remember the light brown apple moth (LBAM), Suterra, Roundup, and agent orange?

Or electric power, I run power plants. I’m at work some nights pulling my hair out in the dead of winter, just to keep things running.

"turn the closet on"?

@@GeekBoyMN The OP may be using voice to text, so "faucets" became "closets". Gotta have a good imagination to read comments these days! We also see "tenacious", which is probably supposed to be "tenuous".

@@lizj5740 I was having a little fun with the funny typo. "Show many" was funny too but then "closet" jumped out at me.

this dude sucks speaking his own native language. tenacious? closet? dafuq

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Your state government is a nasty joke ! They should all be in prison - 😮

Apparently it doesn’t go toward successfully tackling real problems. Their DEI programs are thriving, however.

USA is one of the least expensive public utilities yet has very low customer per mile numbers. Sounds like a recipe for hope and pray 🙄

@@bobwilson758 PG&E is not the government, it is a private entity, Dedicated to profit distribution above all else.

Stockholders.

Shareholders ofcourse, those are the mostest importantest people in the entire world.

at least some of it went to hiring a team's worth of people to write new procedures and rules and paperwork that don't address the core issue at all.

They've been too busy with their solar and wind projects.

Regulatory Black Hole. And Pensions

"Three cheers for Captain Spaulding, three cheers for Captain Spaulding, three cheers for Captain Spaulding" . Harpo brings three chairs.

“Are you gonna eat your fat?”

You'll get nothing and like it!

They could but it needs to two large pumps and manifold 4 12 inch lines off each pump but also it’s going to siphon pretty good downhill lines might collapse

There's no way you can drop in portable pumps big enough to move enough water. You'd have to build a new pump station with multiple huge pumps and probably 4-foot diameter or bigger pipe just to get the water over the dam.

@@chrishauser5505 just enough to get some water down stream. Definitely not going to flow the volume of a 56” pipe.

@@redmesa2975 true that, only has to be better than whats there currently 👍

Up here they lay and bond plastic pipes (large) seemingly overnight to bypass workings and failures for miles at a time you can see the old rough roadbeds that could be used for such things. It's going to cost money either way.

“More than happy to underground the lines.” No they aren’t, they’re doing it because they have no other option due to political pressure. It’s going to cost $10 billion and who gets stuck paying: ratepayers. What most of the fools on here don’t realize is that PG&E is heavily regulated. Everything they do has to go through the government, this being one of those things.

And what you DON'T know because you're the general uninformed public, is that the CPUC told PG&E once they started the undergrounding that it was WAY too expensive. The CPUC did nothing but threaten PG&E with millions in fines if they didn't underground. Now the CPUC backpedals and screws PG&E. The CPUC wants PG&E to stop undergrounding and coat the existing powerlines in an insulated coating. So basically they have to find a way to coat 1.5 million miles of power lines. It's impossible.

The smart thing would have been to consider underground a long time ago. I can speak from my lifetime experience of a family business of HDD (horizontal directional drilling), we've already seen and or heard across Pennsylvania and Ohio, how much underground utilities (cable, internet, phone-- fiber, electric) have saved towns where it counts in the short/long term. For example, many rural areas don't get good service from existing internet/phone/cable services but have been afforded much more reliable service by going underground. What saved tremendously is the electricity being underground, instead of losing power when there's a bit of wind, homes being burnt down due to existing transformers, or lines falling and creating a myriad of horror stories to include losing service and access to emergency services. Yes, putting utilities underground cost more up front but that money is quickly recovered and those who received the power underground vs traditional seem to be quite happy. I have no dog in this fight, we have no shortage of customers, and we are constantly working on the east coast etc. But if it's something beneficial, speak up, let your local officials know what you want and how you feel. Apologies for run ons and rambling, I'm a bit passionate about speaking up to prevent future crisis/emergency situations that are foreseeable (fires especially in CA/ Hawaii etc) take care & be blessed.

It's a government sponsored criminal organization if you don't think their actions aren't sponsored by the people they bought off in government think again.

privatization caused this palaver

Gosh and golly.

We make it hard because it has to be engineered

The trick is getting it to flow from where it is, to where you want it to be.

To get it to STOP flowing downhill until it's needed.

Lol

Plenty of water under their yachts and in front of their vacation homes

Biden Admin has injected massive funds into infrastructure projects in every state, actively being implemented with boots on the ground and jobs in every state. Din’t conflate and oversimplify.

If it ain’t broke. Keep fixing it , till it is ..

Thank goodness for strong thumbs!

Paired with government corruption. They go hand in hand.

PG&E = Public Graft & Extortion

Its a prime example of what happens when government puts a thumb on the scale to allow a company to operate as a monopoly.

@@Swiggityswagger One has nothing to do with the other. How do you think a state can open up the power market? It would be next to impossible. No company that provides the utilities, such as power, gas, and water lines could ever compete if they had open competition-that is one reason you never see more than an electrical or water company in one area. Stuff like electricity and water needs to be controlled by the State and Federal government, not private companies that have no issues selling it to the highest bidder and screwing the taxpayers that need the water and power to live. It takes billions just to lay down the pipes the the water, gas, and electricity. If you think companies just going to start lying their own pipe and trying to compete with other companies, you really should go back to college and take business 101.

I'd grant you incompetence, and a strong preference for avoiding blame.

Regardless whether it's water or air, isn't it astonishing how JB can cover anything and everything without any judgements, opinions, or blame of any sort; instead covering only with facts and sometimes an occasional "good job"? That't the hallmark of greatness. Long overdue for significant public recognition.

Not even sub-contracted. I say: mobilize the Army Corps of Engineers!

Reminds me of the old table prayer: 'Good bread, good meat. Good gawd let's eat!' 😊

Great Job with Everything you do, Every time, Everywhere, and with Everyone.

Not long! They are licking their chops.

For sure, you know who is going to pay for all those emergency repairs.

No crisis will stay unused

They broke up Ma Bell, but that company actually worked very well.

That's the problem. It MUST NOT be broken up but instead taken over and operated as a non-profiting public agency with complete transparency in the decision making process. Just like public banks in N. Dakota. Just like public rural cooperative telecommunication in the central plains. We actually DO NOT want breakup or deregulation; look what good that did with Reagan and ATC.

And bury it so rock slides do not take it out

All of it

All of California seems like Seattle when I lived there. No matter how badly agencies performed, the public never got mad enough to force change.

You can't fire or un-elect a public utility.

@@Inkling777what can the public even do??? they are a monopoly that is backed by the government.

....the weather....