Orange turd still thinks he opened water in Canada.
The scary thing isn't what he believes, it is what he gets his cult followers to believe. My wife had an unbelievable "discussion" about this topic on facebook and it is shocking how many people who I otherwise always viewed as reasonably intelligent actually believe he "opened the water" and that the democrats were pusposely "holding back the water" from the pacific northwest and even into Canada
- During a visit to Los Angeles last week, Trump vowed to increase pumping of water in California.
- Federal data show that pumping actually had lessened for several days last week, apparently to allow for routine maintenance at a federal pumping facility.
- Despite Trump administration claims to the contrary, the amount of water now flowing in the federal system in the Delta is about the same as it was under the Biden administration.
When President Trump visited Los Angeles last week, he pledged to “open up the pumps and valves in the north” and “get that water pouring down here.”
But records show that the day he
made that announcement, the federal government’s pumping facility in Northern California was delivering less water than usual, apparently because managers had reduced pumping for several days of routine maintenance.
The records indicate that the day after Trump’s announcement, on Saturday, the federally managed pumping plant resumed regular levels of water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the aqueducts of the Central Valley Project.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s daily
pumping data for the Jones Pumping Plant shows that on Jan. 21, the amount of water pumped decreased to about 1,900 acre-feet, down from about 6,900 acre-feet the day before. Pumping continued at reduced levels of about 1,800 acre-feet each day from Jan. 22 through Jan. 24, when Trump visited Los Angeles.
The pumping returned to higher levels on Saturday, Jan. 25, delivering 5,300 acre-feet of water that day, or about 1.7 billion gallons.
On Monday night, Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER,” a claim that state officials
promptly denied.
The California Department of Water Resources responded in a statement: “The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days.”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom responded at a
news conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
“There were no military sent to the Central Valley. That was reported but wasn’t in evidence,” Newsom said.
He said the federal government was doing maintenance on the Central Valley Project from Jan. 21 to Jan. 24.
“Between the 21st and 24th, the federal government was doing maintenance on their system. It’s maintenance that is well coordinated with the State Water Project that does not end pumping,” Newsom said.
For four days, maintenance work on power transmission lines prevented operation of another pumping plant south of the Delta near San Luis Reservoir, which led managers to reduce pumping at the Jones Pumping Plant.
“On the 24th, that maintenance ended, and they started turning back on the pumps,” Newsom said. “It takes a few days to get the pumps back to 100%, and perhaps that was what they were celebrating.”
The Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the Central Valley Project, did not respond to requests for information about the maintenance that temporarily reduced water deliveries.
The unofficial
Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump plans to consult for recommendations on cutting government spending, said in a
social media postthat it congratulates the administration for “more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California.”
According to the government data, the Trump administration has not yet increased pumping above the levels that the federal facility was drawing from the Delta under the Biden administration earlier this month. (On Tuesday, the pumping plant delivered nearly 6,900 acre-feet. On Wednesday, that decreased somewhat to about 5,100 acre-feet, and on Thursday, pumping returned to more than 6,800 acre-feet.)
Water experts have pointed out that Trump made several inaccurate statements on social media and during his L.A. visit. For example, he said he was opening up the flow of water “from the Pacific Northwest” and “parts of Canada” — from where California has no aqueducts, pipelines or other avenues for water flow.
He also said he intended to increase the flow of water to Los Angeles, even though urban areas of Southern California are supplied not by the federally managed Central Valley Project but by the State Water Project, the other main north-to-south water conduit in the region — which hasn’t been directly affected by his executive orders.
“I don’t think he’s interested in water. I think he’s interested in other things — for which this is perhaps a rhetorical vehicle,” said Jay Lund, a UC Davis emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Lund said he thinks one aim of Trump’s statements might be “keeping other people off balance,” including political adversaries in California.
“He likes to occupy space, it seems,” Lund said. “He’s not doing things that would actually provide water. He’s setting up some rhetorical conditions for perhaps other things he’s interested in accomplishing.”
