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Dubai has been in the news lately for the flooding there. I’ve been to Dubai numerous times when I was working in Iraq and Afghanistan. They normally get less than 5” of rain in a year’s time. Recently, as I read, they ‘seeded’ the clouds experimentally, and they got floods that wreaked havoc on the area. Normally, they pull sea water and desalinate it.

As I watched the news about Cali and Utah sucking their lakes dry, I’ve wondered to myself about why they don’t do the same. I did read an article saying that it would be too expensive. REALLY? More expensive than drilling an aqueduct through the mountains to take water from Eastern rivers?

Same question… Why doesn’t Houston pull water from the Gulf of Mexico and desalinate it? It’s pretty much an endless supply! No hate towards the folks in the Houston area. My son lives in Alvin. I just don’t know why all the tree-huggers want to take the sun’s energy and the wind’s power to generate electricity, but they don’t figure out how to make fresh water out of the seas that are supposedly rising and going to destroy all the coastal areas?

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Desalination is energy intensive. More load on the grid. Produces a lot of salt also.

But, y’all have the gulf to fish.

It’s not but 7,500 surface acres.

I saw it on a map that had both Bois D'arc and Ralph Hall Lakes. It appeared on that map as being about half the size of Bois D'arc. I think Pat Mayse is around 7500 if my memory serves me correctly, so there is something to compare it to. I've driven over the river that feeds it for last 30 years and seen how it reacts to rain. It will probably fill up in less than a year or as fast as week or two once they close the dam like Cooper did; a little history on Cooper for those of you that weren't around it or were to young to recall the event. Cooper was supposed to take about 4 to 5 years to fill and it filled in about a two week period. It rained so much during that time frame the whole entire Sulphur River Basin flooded everything from it's head waters to the Red River Basin, of course everything else in this part of the country flooded as well.

A little more history on Cooper Lake: When it opened, there was a big ceremony with a 5k race across the dam. Since the dam was more than 3.1 miles long, they took the runners in a bus to the point where the odometer clicked over at 3.1. They let us out, and the wind was white-capping the lake… of course in the direction where we had to run into the wind. I was in my prime at that time in my life, and I won the race that day. It was the only race I ever crossed the finish line first overall. And now you know the rest of the story!


JR

All this talk about the lakes got me to wondering where things were with all the other proposed lakes. I come across this article from The Paris News from 2022, it was the latest info I could find. It's kind of an interesting read. The Paris News