Flooding a Delta Island due to Fire

Post by **WB Staff** » Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:22 am

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA — Bradford Island will be flooded to put out a brush fire that started early Monday morning on what is a reclaimed peat wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

READ IT ALL: https://patch.com/california/concord-ca ... ouse-blaze

gabuelhaj · Post by **gabuelhaj** » Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:18 am

If prepared, same can be done with the mountain ranges that are on fire which is causing all of us to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day whether we like it or not but alas, it's more important to send the water down south.....

Good luck!

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:26 pm

gabuelhaj wrote:If prepared, same can be done with the mountain ranges that are on fire which is causing all of us to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day whether we like it or not but alas, it's more important to send the water down south.....

Good luck!

How can that be done in the Sierras?

gabuelhaj · Post by **gabuelhaj** » Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:24 am

Strategic carving island boundaries on mountain ranges, water pumps and pipes placement like you see on the mountain ranges of the grapevine heading to soCal from base to crest and have a waterfall over affected island(s) when these types of fires break out. Just like the idea presented in the article....

Good luck!

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:42 pm

gabuelhaj wrote:Strategic carving island boundaries on mountain ranges, water pumps and pipes placement like you see on the mountain ranges of the grapevine heading to soCal from base to crest and have a waterfall over affected island(s) when these types of fires break out. Just like the idea presented in the article....

Good luck!

I've spent some time in the Sierras, and I don't see how anyone could "carve island boundaries" in them. Way too steep and rugged, and too many mountains. The islands in the Delta all have levees around them to contain the water if they do need to be flooded, and they're all flat and surrounded by water.

gabuelhaj · Post by **gabuelhaj** » Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:59 am

At a minimum, the powers in charge can come up with a strategy and a plan to address these outrageous fires that are forcing people to smoke a pack a ciggs per day. At least work a plan to prevent cities like Paradise from getting completely destroyed.... This may require out of the box and/or unorthodox methods. Till now, a big nothing is being done...

Good luck!

ash · Post by **ash** » Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:43 pm

mark poulson wrote:
gabuelhaj wrote:If prepared, same can be done with the mountain ranges that are on fire which is causing all of us to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day whether we like it or not but alas, it's more important to send the water down south.....

Good luck!
How can that be done in the Sierras?

Well it's easy you run a sprinkler system over the top of the tree lines from lake tahoe and they turn on whenever there is a fire... Its just like taking an island that is below the water line or equal to it and is fully embanked and flooding it from the adjacent water that will be let loose back into the river and recharge the groundwater.....

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:55 pm

ash wrote:
mark poulson wrote:
gabuelhaj wrote:If prepared, same can be done with the mountain ranges that are on fire which is causing all of us to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day whether we like it or not but alas, it's more important to send the water down south.....

Good luck!
How can that be done in the Sierras?

Well it's easy you run a sprinkler system over the top of the tree lines from lake tahoe and they turn on whenever there is a fire... Its just like taking an island that is below the water line or equal to it and is fully embanked and flooding it from the adjacent water that will be let loose back into the river and recharge the groundwater.....

Man, that would take a million miles of sprinkler lines to cover the Sierras.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:47 pm

gabuelhaj wrote:Strategic carving island boundaries on mountain ranges, water pumps and pipes placement like you see on the mountain ranges of the grapevine heading to soCal from base to crest and have a waterfall over affected island(s) when these types of fires break out. Just like the idea presented in the article....

Good luck!

I think you've been smokin' the WRONG kind of cigarettes !!!

jiggin4bass · Post by **jiggin4bass** » Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:05 pm

Trump told Newsome back in 2016 too get forest management to start cleaning forest floors here in ca. They the democrats refused now there paying for it. And its going to keep getting worse with are lakes down. Democrats know whats best for ca. If Newsome doesn't get recalled sept 14th on sept 15th state of ca will be lock down again you can bet on that. And its funny how revenge has a way of coming back around. Stay tune

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:43 am

jiggin4bass wrote:Trump told Newsome back in 2016 too get forest management to start cleaning forest floors here in ca. They the democrats refused now there paying for it. And its going to keep getting worse with are lakes down. Democrats know whats best for ca. If Newsome doesn't get recalled sept 14th on sept 15th state of ca will be lock down again you can bet on that. And its funny how revenge has a way of coming back around. Stay tune

The Federal Govt. owns more than half the forests in California. Why didn't Trump clean those forests?

jiggin4bass · Post by **jiggin4bass** » Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:39 am

The feds own 33 million arces of forest land in ca and trump said poor forest management caused most if not all the fires in ca. Not climate change. And the governor of this fine state not going anywhere and the forest will keep buring and no water to put them out as long as he run this state.

ash · Post by **ash** » Tue Aug 10, 2021 12:10 pm

mark poulson wrote:
ash wrote:
mark poulson wrote: How can that be done in the Sierras?

Well it's easy you run a sprinkler system over the top of the tree lines from lake tahoe and they turn on whenever there is a fire... Its just like taking an island that is below the water line or equal to it and is fully embanked and flooding it from the adjacent water that will be let loose back into the river and recharge the groundwater.....
Man, that would take a million miles of sprinkler lines to cover the Sierras.

Well that's someone else's problem to figure out....i provided the solution

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:55 pm

ash wrote:
mark poulson wrote:
ash wrote:

Well it's easy you run a sprinkler system over the top of the tree lines from lake tahoe and they turn on whenever there is a fire... Its just like taking an island that is below the water line or equal to it and is fully embanked and flooding it from the adjacent water that will be let loose back into the river and recharge the groundwater.....
Man, that would take a million miles of sprinkler lines to cover the Sierras.
Well that's someone else's problem to figure out....i provided the solution

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:56 pm

WB Staff wrote:bradford island fire.png

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA — Bradford Island will be flooded to put out a brush fire that started early Monday morning on what is a reclaimed peat wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

READ IT ALL: https://patch.com/california/concord-ca ... ouse-blaze

So, did it work?