Someone needs to wake up every morning and think about flood control > Rexroad.com

Woodland and Yolo County need someone every single day thinking about nothing but flood control for the area.

The proposal below is important for Woodland and for Yolo County. It will be an important topic in the coming weeks. I support it and will be encouraging others to do the same.

You can read some of the information here.

It is my hope that as community groups and the media learn more about it...they will also suppor this effort. It is time to get serious about flood control.

Comments

By cirenio1 @ Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:45 PM

Matt, I also support such efforts. Keep the issue in front of the public on a regular basis.The more information , the better the public will become informed and hopefully will act on it.

By perkoff @ Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:32 PM

Clean the brush from the damn creek!

By duane750 @ Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:22 AM

Not just the brush, but I think Cache Creek needs to be dredged, starting from just above the Rumsey bridge all the way down. The silt build up, along with debris is the major factor of proper flow.

By yolovoter @ Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:09 PM

Wow Duane, I'm interested in how you came up with such a belief. Are you a hydrologist? An engineer?

By Charlie in Japan @ Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:29 PM

Yolovoter...Duane is correct...just go look for your self..the Capay Dam in nearly filled...the Gordon ranch has the river scraping away topsoil as it carves out a new channel due to the build up in the old channel...the Rumsey Bridge is in danger...the old Capay bridge fell over a decade ago due to all the mining down stream and the undcutting of the foundation....the Creek Bed needs work...Just go look for yourself (Yes..my education is in this field and I am an Engineer) Charlie-san

By duane750 @ Monday, February 26, 2007 9:13 AM

Basic geology 101! Yolovoter, do you know how Cache Creek flows out of Clear Lake?, and by what geological factors are involved in its proper flow, one that is not man made and has been this way for hundreds of years, if not thousands?. Cache Creek begins far from Yolo County, from the tip of Anderon Marsh State Historic Park at the south end of Clear Lake, it winds through perhaps the most scenic wildlife preserve in all of Northern California. If you can tell me what natural characteristics make this beutiful and scenic creek flow, I will buy you dinner at Ludy's on main street. Hint, it starts with a big mountain called Mt. Konocti. Good Luck!

By yolovoter @ Monday, February 26, 2007 10:49 PM

So in other words, Duane, you really have no idea what you're talking about. Are you an expert on flood control or hydrology? Don't you think you should consult with experts?

Good ol' farm boy sense isn't going to cut it. Far flung "theories" and general intuition are poor public policy...please don't waste our money and/or peoples' lives and property by espousing on science you know little about. I may not be a genius, but i'm smart enough to know the problem(s) are probably far more complicated than your simplistic, asinine answer suggest them to be.

By Matt Rexroad @ Monday, February 26, 2007 10:55 PM

Yolovoter:

You are being a complete jerk. Pull your head out of your....

Matt Rexroad

By YoloCalVet @ Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:34 AM

YoloVoter:

....posterior spillway.

YoloCalVet

By yolovoter @ Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:40 PM

So in other words, Duane could vote for flood control measures based only upon what he "feels", with little or no real scientific evidence backing his claims? That is absolutely absurd! Anybody here ever heard the term "get the data?"

The important point here is that this man's beliefs about flood control seem to be rather solidified, even though he clearly lacks the qualifications to make such statements. Would he then put those beliefs into public policy? I really don't want to be living in this area if flood control measures are based off of intuition, or what a layman "feels" is right. It's not a subjective issue at all.

Just do what what the scientists tell you to do, Duane.

By duane750 @ Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:43 PM

The Cache Creek Dam on the South Fork of Cache Creek, five miles downstream from Clear Lake, was built to increase Clear Lake's capacity and to regulate outflow for downstream users of Cache Creek water. The dam was later modified to include a 3-MW hydroelectric plant. The stream has a relatively small capacity, less than a quarter of the amount the dam is able to release. There is a rock ledge a mile and a half downstream of Clear Lake, called the Grigsby Riffle, near the bridge on Highway 53. This sill restricts the amount of water that can flow through at that point. The limited capacity of the stream means that it takes a very long time to drain excess flow from Clear Lake, increasing the chance of flooding around the lake. The bottleneck is seen as a backup to prevent flooding downstream and Yolo County is prohibited from increasing the capacity of the channel by the Bemmerly Decree. The Capay Diversion Dam, 49 miles downstream from the Cache Creek Dam, diverts water for distribution throughout Yolo County using a 175-mile network of canals.

Water rights and flooding protection have been in dispute between Yolo and Lake Counties since the late 19th Century. Yolo County continues to own all the water in Clear Lake, despite the simple fact that none of the lake is actually within Yolo County. Current treaties attempt to insure a balance between the needs of the two counties, although high-water conditions can cause temporary disagreements.

A large part of the creek within Lake County is designated a Wildlife Area by the state of California and the federal Bureau of Land Management, and the wildlife within the area enjoys protection from hunting or other interference. The South Fork presently hosts a growing population of the rare tule elk, plus winter populations of bald eagles. The ruggedness of the area tends to insure its isolation from human activity.
In geology, a sill is a tabular, often horizontal mass of igneous rock that has been intruded laterally between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or even along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. The term sill is synonymous with concordant intrusive sheet.

Sills are always parallel to beds (layers) of country rock. They can often be confused with lava flows when looking at them from a geological point of view, however there is one main difference between them. When lava flows come into the rock, they always come on top, therefore only heating one side of country rock and baking it (a baked margin). However sills intrude into the rock, therefore creating a baked margin on both sides.

By Charlie in Japan @ Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:34 AM

Duane...lol...You forgot to add in the 'Manning Equation' and the roughness coefficient of the stream beds and the effects of the hydraulic spike of water in different stream channel types at different gradients or bedrock types...or the effect of down stream mining...(Laugh)...but I do like your style. Charlie-san

By YoloCalVet @ Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:35 PM

Yolovoter got spanked in that debate...LOL!

By duane750 @ Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:16 PM

Charlie and YoloCalVet, Do you think I over did it.? LOL Where did he go? LOL .....Anyhow, good know you gents are out there in the fight. Duane

By YoloCalVet @ Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:02 PM

Mr. 750,

I don't think so...the more info on reservoirs, off channel storage, flood control the better.

YoloCalVet

By Billy Bob @ Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:52 PM

I agree with that YoloCalVet! The more the better.

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