tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010066116280232789.post7647172539545777072..comments2019-12-23T19:32:37.788-08:00Comments on Twin Buttes Reservoir: Pressure Grows on Twin ButtesPEU Report/State of the Divisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10269683860174947542noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010066116280232789.post-84692681002775441022012-04-09T20:59:52.410-07:002012-04-09T20:59:52.410-07:00I'm sure Ivie is great. It's so convenien...I'm sure Ivie is great. It's so convenient having local lakes but 10 minutes away. I admit, I've been spoiled. I do like sailing where I have some idea of the bottom structure. <br /><br />A good friend windsurfed O.C. Fisher years ago. He was screaming along the surface when his fin caught. It pitched him hard into the water, which less than two feet deep and rocky. He said it hurt like heck. <br /><br />I've been lucky to avoid that fate. I did have a fin obliterate on a rocky promotory, just under the surface of the water. Thank heaven, I fell in waist deep water. I flipped over my board to find the fin completely gone. I walked back up the mound. We call that beach "Fin Busters." There are several spots like that at the North Pool. <br /><br />I've yet to find anything like that at the South Pool, but maybe pumping will expose things I've yet to see. All the best.PEU Report/State of the Divisionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269683860174947542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010066116280232789.post-44135691570895597732012-04-08T22:18:34.023-07:002012-04-08T22:18:34.023-07:00i don't know how it would endanger it - it see...i don't know how it would endanger it - it seems if anything it would improve the rate of flow. The volume coming out of the headwaters is not going to change... I was just on the river in Christoval last week thinking how backed up and choked the river even seems there, trying to visualize how the river would have moved naturally through the landscape before all the dams... and trash... lots of trash. It seems like Ivie would make for great windsurfing too?allie devereauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205662824631478554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010066116280232789.post-79033459858558122052012-04-08T20:09:24.194-07:002012-04-08T20:09:24.194-07:00I understand the need to pump water from the South...I understand the need to pump water from the South Pool in the short term. I don't think it needs to be emptied. Selfishly, the South Pool is the best place to take beginner windsurfers because of the entry slope and prevailing winds blow tired novices back to shore. <br /><br />Allie, you raise many good questions. When I lived in Georgia, their lakes were used for flood control and recreation. Thank you for the book references. Do you think pumping the South Pool empty could endanger the South Concho River flow?PEU Report/State of the Divisionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269683860174947542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010066116280232789.post-82431333935565907582012-04-08T19:24:57.690-07:002012-04-08T19:24:57.690-07:00Twin Buttes and O.C Fisher should be used for floo...Twin Buttes and O.C Fisher should be used for flood control only. Scalping this much water off the Concho is killing the river. When water is stored in a lake the oxygen levels plummet, the sediment loads are trapped, flood plains become deprived, half of the stream flow is lost from the river basin forever to evaporation, the riparian ecosystem collapses. I think it is pointless to pump the water into the north pool for a few weeks of water, but we wouldn't really be conserving "drinking" water by leaving it in the inaccessible South pool either. I appreciate your love of windsurfing on Twin Buttes, but in the grand scheme of things, this reservoir is environmental catastrophe subsidized by the Bureau of Reclamation. I think we need to reduce the reservoir storage (the two aforementioned lakes which we never actually use except for recreation or irrigation anyway) and save the river. You should check out the books: Cadillac Desert and When the Rivers Run Dry...allie devereauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205662824631478554noreply@blogger.com