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yellowdogintexas

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5. these are needed in Phoenix and Flagstaff

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 11:42 AM

Nov 2022

Flagstaff had some horrible flooding back in the spring and Phoenix's monsoon season features torrential storms (one of which dumped 2 inches of rain in 2 hours on top of my daughter's area, turning her yard into a river.) The storm drains in Phoenix are a joke - there are not enough of them and they look like letter slots compared to Fort Worth's.

At a minimum, Phoenix needs more of those collection canals. I have been told the water in them flows to the Salt River. It should go to a reservoir somewhere, or be used to develop/restore aquifers.

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California tries to harness megastorm floods to ease crippling droughts [View all] Auggie Nov 2022 OP

This, of course, assumes that there WILL be "wet years" lapfog_1 Nov 2022 #1

So, reservoirs ... but where nobody uses the water, until it percolates underground Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #2

Yes ... Auggie Nov 2022 #3

Tucson does this with CAP water. Ptah Nov 2022 #4

these are needed in Phoenix and Flagstaff yellowdogintexas Nov 2022 #5