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3. "We will let people in the future worry about that." - Floyd Dominy, USBR

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:03 AM

Sep 16

That's the problem with the future - eventually, it shows up.

Sedimentation of reservoirs is as inevitable as sunrise, and Dominy knew that.

He also, by the time of his death in 2010, would likely have known full well about the science of global warming and its impacts on water storage, particular in the arid American west.

But hey-ho, gotta build something, and I'll be gone by the time the rest of us sit down to Stevenson's "banquet of consequences".

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