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megjake t1_jbqqw4b wrote

Reply to comment by ih8thewrld in La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

I grew up in SoCal and my home town in the past 3 years has built a new reservoir, installed bigger storm drain pipes, and cleaned up the existing ones. Idk if it’s state wide but there seemed to be a genuine effort to make storm water management better.

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jbrja4w wrote

>installed bigger storm drain pipes, and cleaned up the existing ones.

That's great for flooding, but SoCal needs to figure out a practical way to retain a lot more of that water instead of dumping it into the ocean.

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megjake t1_jbt9k7a wrote

Hence the new reservoir. The city basically has artificial lakes in the winter because they have reservoirs spread around. You often see helicopters collecting water from those spots during wildfires.

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jbtb4zp wrote

>Hence the new reservoir.

Which one is that?

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megjake t1_jbtd46f wrote

The new one my home town built?

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jbtew95 wrote

I was asking where it was located. I'm curious because it's a tough situation to solve, considering the lack of space in the areas where they're needed.

There's been talk since the 80s about excavating a large part of the Sepulveda Basin, which would be perfect as far as location on the LA River and already having a dam there, but there's a golf course there, so obviously that can't be done.

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megjake t1_jbtidtz wrote

Can’t seem to find anything online about its construction but my hometown is Beaumont CA. It wasn’t a big reservoir by any means but it was a good addition to the cities already pretty good flood management. We’d have the occasional mudslide but for the most part during heavy rains despite being in a valley we never had flood damage

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