[32734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California power - its cold, its dark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Dec 8 11:06:48 2000
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:04:40 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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Joe McGuckin wrote:
>
> Roeland,
>
> I think you're confusing the California Aqueduct with the "Los Angeles
> Aqueduct". The LA Aqueduct's (designed by William Mullholland,
> constructed 1907-1913) gravity-flow contruction requires no pumps.
> It diverts eastern Sierra mountain streams from the Owens Valley and
> Mono Lake basin to reservoirs in the metro Los Angeles area.
>
> Joe
>
[Off topic tid-bit] The water rights for this were bought secretly (&
cheaply) by
Mullholland using front corporations and outside agents. Farmers
thought they
were selling something of no value to fools, because how could the
purchasers ever
actually use the water without owning the land ? When the farmers in
the
Owens Valley found out what was really going on, they tried to
dynamite the Aqueduct, because, in that area, no water rights means no crops.
Now, if I could just buy bandwidth that way...
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
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Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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