![]() ![]() “There's always going to be risks, you can't eliminate them.”įor some, this concert with When in Rome, Flock Of Seagulls, Men Without Hats, Dramarama and Steve Norman Of Spandau Ballet is a soundtrack of their youth. “As, our job is to actually understand what that risk is,” Gutierrez said. Though Gutierrez said that California has not yet seen storms at the level that would threaten the dam’s safety allowance, understanding the changing climate and its effects on the water system will be key for both dam safety and prevention of flooding. That would lower the risk of water approaching the top, and could be an excellent tool for preventing flooding of the communities that reside downstream, Gutierrez said. One safety measure proposal has been lowering the spillways, or the part of the dam where the water actually flows. The key, Gutierrez said, is maintaining the infrastructure well. The question, the, Raeger said, is whether the reservoir can be managed in such a way that the snowmelt and stores water can get the state through the entire summer. And then that water is going to be used or led out of those reservoirs earlier in the year,” Raeger said. That means the reservoirs are going to fill earlier in the year. “With earlier snowmelt, that means there's a cascade of consequences. This April, the snowpack from the Sierra Nevadas would have been enough to cover the entire state of California with five inches of water, according to Raeger. As temperatures rise, snow will melt faster and earlier in the season, causing warmer springs and winters. JT Raeger, an earth scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that climate change is causing the probabilities of various storm levels to shift, and that the statistical distribution of these weather events could change in unpredictable ways over the next decades.Īs a result, Raeger said, the seasonality of our water events could change - which could pose an issue, as our infrastructure is built around certain seasonal patterns. ![]() Gutierrez, who previously worked for California’s Division of Dam Safety, said that it extremely important that dams do not overtop - or release water uncontrollably over parts of the dam that are not designed to pass flow - since that could lead to erosion of the dam.īut weighing the probability of these risks is not always straightforward. Gutierrez said that California has typically seen storms whose severity might have a 1/100 or 1/200 chance of occurring - while dams are designed to withstand storms with a 1/10,000 chance, or less, of occurring. Times staff writer Christian Martinez contributed to this report.Dams are typically designed to withstand much more severe storms than we typically see, according to David Gutierrez, the vice president of engineering and consulting firm GEI Consultants. “I don’t think the weather is going to be anything people are going to be talking about.” “It should be clear skies and quite nice,” he said. January and February - the height of Southern California’s rainy season - have proved troublingly dry, leading some officials to express concern that fire conditions are shifting from seasonal to year-round.įortunately, Wofford said, the weather on Wednesday - the day of the much-anticipated Rams Super Bowl championship parade in the Exposition Park area - should be pleasantly unremarkable. Though Los Angeles’ precipitation is slightly above average for the water year, almost all of that moisture came during December’s storms. The winds last week helped fuel a pair of unseasonable Southern California fires, including the 150-acre Emerald fire near Laguna Beach and the 7-acre Sycamore fire, which destroyed two homes near Whittier. By Thursday and Friday, temperatures will climb back into the 70s, with yet another dry Santa Ana wind event likely to blow through, forecasters said. Though the cool-down marks a turnabout after a weeklong heat wave, it will be short-lived. OK this was it ⬇️ /KLJsZo5PhW- Daniel Hernandez ✍□□ February 16, 2022
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