Trump Administration Releases California Dam Water Without State Approval

Monday, February 03, 2025

Newsweek writes about the unprecedented release of water from California's dams ordered by the Trump administration.

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Acting on Trump's order, the Army Corps of Engineers abruptly increased water flows from two dams. Local water managers, caught off-guard, said they convinced officials to release less water than originally planned because of flood risks. www.latimes.com/environment/ ... @jessicagarrison.bsky.social

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And when water shortages impact farm production in the future, it will, of course, be the Dem's fault and Dotard will have the "solution."

My guess is this is how Dotard "runs" his companies - frequent bumbling missteps that are mopped up by subordinates who deal solely in the now. No wonder he bankrupted so many companies.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-03 09:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

My guess is this is how Dotard "runs" his companies - frequent bumbling missteps that are mopped up by subordinates who deal solely in the now. No wonder he bankrupted so many companies.

#1 | POSTED BY JPW

California farmers are screaming over this, fearing a collapse of harvests due to insufficient water availability.

Funny. I think that if you looked you'd find that most of those farmers voted MAGA.

No, Donald won't be able to destroy California. But leopards are eating a lot of faces, anyway.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-03 09:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Collapsed American harvests?

Hmmmmm.

Maybe it's a MAGA ploy to get rid of migrants?

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-03 09:39 AM | Reply

Felon47 is a child doing childish things without any intelligent thought applied to it.

He is going to hurt farmers during the growing season with this act who are mostly red voters.

You got what you voted for.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-03 09:53 AM | Reply

I wonder if or when the righties will object to this as an unwarranted intrusion of the federal government into state's rights...

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-03 10:02 AM | Reply

Collapsed American harvests? Hmmmmm. Maybe it's a MAGA ploy to get rid of migrants?
#3 | Posted by Zed

No American crops to harvest, no migrant farm workers. It's genius! I see no possible downsides!

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-03 10:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

By and large Cali farmers do not want the water released now. Remember how Tulare Lake re-emerged, decades after being drained dry? It may well re-appear this year. Nothing says 'water for farms' like a flood that takes months to dissipate. Yep--farmers out of business, but those Libs and that pesky governor have been shown who the boss is...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-03 05:25 PM | Reply

California has been wasting our national money without our permission. Be it for wasted environmental boondoggles such generating electricity by mirrors instead of solar cells or other boondoggles like high speed rail that never worked. Connected cronies got rich.

#8 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-03 08:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Why is this not getting MORE national attention?

#9 | Posted by brass30 at 2025-02-03 09:07 PM | Reply

Why is this not getting MORE national attention?

Federal government censorship.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-03 09:13 PM | Reply

water experts explained the water released is headed for low-lying agricultural land, not Southern California, and has no physical route to reach wildfire-affected areas.

No physical route? Can't they just use the same route that the giant faucet on the Columbia River is supposed to use?

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-03 09:18 PM | Reply

Dotard is employing the Chloroquinine equivalent in firefighting to combat fires far from where all that water is actually flowing but hey, we don't need no stinking scientists or fire fighting professionals to tell him what to do. That pompous ass knows more about everything than anyone else.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-04 07:45 AM | Reply

First off, CoE owns those lakes, not the state
Secondly, the state of CA has proven itself incompetent in many ways, and expects the fed to bail them out when they screw up. The choice is between controlled burns and uncontrolled wildfires, and CA consistently chooses the latter.

#13 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-04 08:54 AM | Reply

The choice is between controlled burns and uncontrolled wildfires

You know why they call them "controlled burns"? Because you don't light them in the middle of a drought.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-04 08:57 AM | Reply

You know why they call them "controlled burns"? Because you don't light them in the middle of a drought.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-04 08:57 AM | Reply

He ain't too bright you know.

#15 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-04 09:01 AM | Reply

Trump is a fccking idiot.
This has the potential to raise the price on groceries substantially later this year.
Does this orange fetid moppet understand anything?
That the water isn't helping Southern California?
That he's setting us up for far worse to happen?

Oh my god this has been a wretched first 2 weeks. He's been hard a work on the total destruction of America. Illegal actions at every turn.

#16 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-04 09:34 AM | Reply

#13

Hey dumbass, Fat Donnie Failure just flushed 2 BILLION gallons of water down the drain when it wasn't needed, you ------- retarded clown.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-04 10:41 AM | Reply

America's Godzilla destroyed 2.2 billion gallons of California's water. There's no stopping Trumpf or his wake of destruction.

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-04 12:26 PM | Reply

Of the 17 major reservoirs managed by the California Department of Water Resources, as of 2/3/25 all but three reservoirs were at 97% of historic average water level, or higher. The lowest was at 80% of average. The state's management of its water is well-documented, careful and crucial to the state's ability to house its people and generate the wide variety of agricultural products from its farms.

Meanwhile, this country has a president who doesn't understand why all the water in the world doesn't flow to the South Pole, then fall off the planet...

#19 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-04 01:53 PM | Reply

" Meanwhile, this country has a president who doesn't understand why all the water in the world doesn't flow to the South Pole, then fall off the planet..."

That's because at midnight the Earth begins to turn again. By dawn, the water's back where it's supposed to be. This isn't something I made up. I had an uncle who taught something somewhere and the stuff on his genes must have rubbed off on me.
~ Old Orange Julius

#20 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-04 02:01 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by bootyhunter

JFC you dumb.

Swallow it.

#21 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-02-04 02:19 PM | Reply

@#1 ... And when water shortages impact farm production in the future, it will, of course, be the Dem's fault and Dotard will have the "solution." ...

From the cited article...

... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down river channels toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley.

Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning. ...

Pawlik said the Army Corps was releasing water from the dams "to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires." It was not immediately clear how or where the federal government intends to transport the water. ...

[emphasis mine]

So, how does this water get from Tulare County to the areas affected by the wildfires? And what will happen should there be a drought in the future and the farmers there do not have the water they need because Pres Trump lowered the amount of water stored?

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-04 02:44 PM | Reply

It can't get there. There is no "how".

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-04 02:45 PM | Reply

LOL, all you Liberal zipper heads were screaming that Trump was lying when he said he released the water, now you're screaming because he did it without permission.

#24 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-04 02:49 PM | Reply

No one screamed or even said that about Trump.
I never heard that he released any water.
Where are you getting this --------?

We laughed at the moron you elected for saying that there was some "spigot" could be turned on or off that was preventing water from flowing to SoCal.

He just proved every liberal right by turning that spigot and flooding NoCal.

You moron.

#25 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-04 02:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, "the water is flowing in California," and adding the water was "heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles."

There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

"They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer," said Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. "This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.

The demented failure addict strikes again.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-04 02:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He just proved every liberal right by turning that spigot and flooding NoCal.

It's even stupider that that. Lewzer's "giant faucet" is the Columbia River, which is about 650 miles farther north that this little dam. In Oregon, no less.

A smart man Lewzer is not.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-04 03:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

LOL, all you Liberal zipper heads were screaming that Trump was lying when he said he released the water, now you're screaming because he did it without permission.
#24 | Posted by fishpaw

JFC you're even dumber!

You just make shit up in your head and apply it to some nonexistent liberal just so you can feel good about yourself.

How fnkcin' pathetic can you get?

#28 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-02-04 05:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1