Catching El Niño 2o15
“The Time For Action Is Now ” with the 2015 El Niño bearing down this winter on California and the other Western drought stricken states in crises. The opportunity arises with proper resource management the Reservoir Conditions in Southern California can be improved using dormant oil field drilling rigs and heavy equipment. My simple premise is an aggressive drilling program of completing Aquifer Recharge injection Wells to be placed in storm water channels to capture as much rain water runoff as possible flood the aquifers instead of letting the excess fresh rain water drain into the Pacific Ocean.
Literally with hundreds of drilling rigs and heavy equipment sitting dormant the storm water channels could be perforated with a series of reservoir injection flooding wells with direction catch burns to direct as much water as possible into an aquifer recharge system in Southern California. Let’s fill the natural water tanks or aquifers while the resource is available. I am a simple man using common sense here comes the rain lets capture as much as possible sending what we can capture directly into the aquifers for storage for human consumption and agricultural production. If we can cut through the red tape and bureaucratic impasses along with utilizing the dormant private sector equipment millions of gallons of rain water can be captures to help relieve the current water crises. Hundreds of drilling rigs need to be mobilized now with crews to Catch 2015 El Niño.
We have a choice to either be proactive with managing our most precious resource water or being victims of nature. Are we as a collective going to let nature determined our situation or are we going to do what it takes to be in charge of our destiny.
Experts believe with the current El Niño 2015 storm track avoiding Northern California the Reservoir Conditions won’t improve. Below excerpts from a recent article posted on CAPRADIO.org reinforces this theory.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/08/26/el-nino-likely-no-help-for-northern-californias-reservoirs/
Don't expect El Niño to end the drought or increase rain and snow in Northern California.
"The strongest signal for El Niño for the storm track to increase in activity is for Southern California," says Meteorologist Michelle Mead, with theNational Weather Service in Sacramento. "California is a pretty large state, and, while we do have reservoirs in Southern California, the major reservoirsthat are responsible for the water management of the state are actually located in Northern California."
Mead says from October 2014 through August 26, 2015 - nearly 11 months - downtown Sacramento has received 13.8 inches of precipitation.
"But the normal for downtown Sacramento is 19.92 inches through August," says Mead. "So, we are still short about 6 inches of precipitation. We’re definitely behind the 8-ball when it comes to our water year numbers."
The water year is from October through September.
She says the last time downtown Sacramento received a half-inch of rain was April 24, 2015 and the last time more than an inch fell in Sacramento was February 8, 2015, with 1.07 inches.
"Here in the inland region, outside of a stray thunderstorm here or there, we haven’t seen a lot of precipitation, so our drought conditions have definitely worsened," says Mead.
Mead says the seasonal outlook shows precipitation increasing over the winter months in the "Central Valley and points south" but she says that's "not a guarantee."
Instead of using our drilling technology to extract millions of barrels of oil or gallons of ground water from the aquifer lets use our resources to drill wells to capture the most precious resource fresh rain water. Using water flooding technology has been around in the oil field for quite some time as a method to extract or enhanced recovery of oil reserves. What I am now proposing is with minor modifications wells bores can be made into the aquifers along storm water drain channels with catch basins or retention pits with raised horse shoe burns to force additional water into aquifer recharge injection wells will large bore holes screened to prevent large debris from contaminating or obstructing the flow down to the aquifer. Yes atmospheric and surface contaminates will find its way into the subsurface aquifers without the layers of earth acting as a filter system, however with current municipal water treatment plants this is not an issues.
In conclusion the State of California should be hiring every large bore idol drilling rig in the country, now from Bakersfield to Louisiana. The rigs and crews on the Gulf Coast States are designed and use to operating in wet and swampy conditions. So the project can continue even after the rains start. If we mobilize now convoys of drilling rigs could be here in a few days and setting up in all the storm water channel basins.
