In Trump’s order, officials released water from two California dams

The U.S. Army Engineering Corps has greatly increased the amount of water flowing from Twari County, which flows to the river along the river in the farmland in the San Huajin River Valley.

According to the federal records, the water of the Terminus dam and the Schafer dam in the lake and lake were released on Friday morning.

President Trump said in social media that four days after the US military “entered” California and “opened water”, it suddenly increased. When Trump visited Los Angeles last week, Trump also vowed to “open California's valves and pumps” to transport more water.

According to federal data, the traffic of the Carwell River near Visalia increased from 57 cubic feet per second to more than 1,500 on Friday morning. The traffic from the Lake near Porterville to the Tule River's traffic increased from 105 cubic feet per second to 990.

Tyler Stalker, a spokesman for the Sacraimado Legion, said the Army Engineering Corps was the “regulating water release” of the two dams. “The action is coordinating with local officials. These capabilities are released in the downstream waterway.”

Gene Pawlik (Gene Pawlik) answered the reason why the sudden increase in the water flow, the spokesman of the Washington Legion Headquarters, Gene Pawlik, said in an email that the lawsuit was in Trump Pu recently implemented a measure of “consistent with the direction” in order to issue measures to provide water resources in California.

Pavilik said that the Army Army is released from the dam, “to ensure that California has water to deal with wildfires.” It is unclear how the federal government intends to transport water.

At the same time, Trump shared a photo of pouring from the dam of the dam, and he said, “I just opened the beautiful water flowing in California.”

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons will be 5.2 billion gallons within 3 days. Everyone should be happy with this long -term victory.” Trump wrote. “I just hope they listen to me six years ago-there will be no fire!”

The president tried to connect the local water supply problem during the fire during the Los Angeles County, such as a dry fire hydrant, and he called on other parts of the state to change water management. However, state officials and water experts say that these comments are inaccurate: reservoirs in Southern California are at a record level, and more water from Northern California will not affect the fire response.

The first one in the rivers that approached the atmosphere twice was released from the dam in the dam. bring Snow and rain Go to California.

The dam manager in California sometimes releases water before the main storm, in order to make space in the reservoir to increase the runoff. However, federal agencies' comments on Trump's administrative orders show that the case is different.

Karla Nemeth, director of the Ministry of Water Resources in California, said that state officials are “not part of the decision to release water from the federal reservoir.”

“Traditionally, we have a high degree of coordination at the operation level, which is actually not a part of this decision.”

These two reservoirs are used to hold the supply of agricultural irrigation areas. Neimeth pointed out that winter is not the irrigation season of farms. Farms need more materials to plant crops in summer, so “therefore no need for water in St. Huajin Valley.”

Nims said the dam is also used to regulate the speed of the flood, and the amount of floods may affect downstream areas. She said that in the historical storm in 2023, the state tried to cooperate with the local land owner Capture flood flow Add groundwater under possible circumstances.

She said: “I really can't make this release during the decision -making process of the Legion.”

It is unclear where federal officials intend to send water released from the dam.

Local water managers said on Thursday, the federal government's plan was caught off guard. Dan Vink is a water consultant. He had previously served as the general manager of the Tuer River irrigation zone, saying that this situation was “extremely unprecedented.”

Victor said that local water officials heard on Thursday afternoon that the Army plans to “release two hours of channel capacity from equivalent names to two hours.”

He said that this scale is usually coordinated a few days in advance, partly because farmers may have expensive farm equipment near the river bank. There are also homeless camps near the banks of the river. Officials want to ensure that people should not be trapped before they release so much water and do not be in danger.

Vink said that local water management personnel conveyed their concerns to the Army Corps officials on Thursday, and the latter agreed to release less water than the original plan and postponed it to Friday.

Aaron Fukuda, general manager of the Tulare irrigation zone, told the news website SJV Water that such flood releases are usually released through a large number of previous notifications and coordination. He said: “I have been doing it for 18 years and I have never seen such a thing.”

Peter Gleick, a water scientist and senior researcher at the Pacific Institute, said that the dam manager usually only releases a large amount of water in winter. At that time, a major storm created a space for a large amount of runoff. However, Southern California is very dry, and the snow in the Sila Mountains in the south is still much lower than the average level. Therefore, “there is no sign that this is the reason for these distribution.”

“In addition, when these products are issued, they will always negotiate with local and state institutions.”

“I don't know where this kind of water is going, but this is the error time to release the water of these reservoirs in the year. We fill the reservoir in the rainy season, so we can provide water for farms and cities later in the rainy season.” Rick said. “I think this is strange. What is uneasy is that after decades of local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies have begun to unilaterally manipulate Galifer's water supply.”

Vink agreed, and he said that in view of how dry in the area this winter, there is no need to release such a release. He said that in fact, farmers expect water that can be used in summer irrigation.

“This will hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water from their summer irrigation combination.”

Democratic Senator Alex Padilla criticized the government's decision and asked the answer.

Padira said in the family: “Water circulation needs to be closely coordinated with local officials and safety personnel and downstream agricultural water users to reduce the risk of floods in the community and farms.” letter Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth. “Based on the emergency issues I heard from the voters and the recent reports, it seems that a serious notice is given to Lu CK to harm downstream residents.”

Padilla asked several questions about Hegseth, including who made a decision, how many advance notifications did it be issued to the irrigation area and local officials, and what would this version affect the community and the land owner of the land owner. Essence He also asked: “The purpose of these issuances is to help the wildfires in Los Angeles County to crack down (almost fully included), what is the plan to send this water to Los Angeles, rather than let the water simply discharge in Turlara, which will evaporate. Where?”

At the same time, Governor Gavin Newsom took other actions to adjust how the country manages water. As the two storms approached Friday, Netom signed an administrative order aimed at transferring and storing more storm runoffs.

The command indicates that the Ministry of Water Resources and other state agencies use the water storage and capture of the charging groundwater to the greatest extent, and in the San Louis Reservoir and other reservoirs in the southern part of Sacraimado-Shanhua Jinhe Delta.

Newsom said: “More important than ever, we use all the opportunities for our groundwater supply to the greatest extent.”

Newsom said: “We are also going to use the last drop to increase the water supply of communities and farms in the state.” “By storing these rainwater, we are creating a literally rainy fund to help us from one from a one. For many years And prepare for our hot and dry future. ”