LETTER: Not popular in the Northwest

I work with involvement the caller missive from Bill Minarik and his reasons/objections to piping h2o from the Columbia River to alleviate the shortage connected the Colorado River. A fewer years ago, erstwhile I lived successful Seattle, I wrote a missive to the Seattle Times suggesting a sea-level pipeline beryllium built from the rima of the Columbia to California. The reception by Seattleites was astir universally negative. Saying, successful effect, don’t springiness oregon merchantability our h2o to California … fto them “dry up and stroke away.”

A sea-level pipeline would person the advantages of precise debased pumping costs and overmuch reduced biology impacts, and it would debar galore the restrictions, impacts and problems associated with an overland pipeline. Building costs would beryllium commensurately lower. I inactive judge that the oversea level pipeline to proviso California makes consciousness to assistance trim California’s demands connected the Colorado, though I’m definite astir northwesteners would inactive not beryllium successful favour of it.