City of San Diego to Release Water from Hodges Reservoir into San Dieguito River

Saw the same thing. Unable to send to olevinhein? Aren't they already connected? Can't believe it is already full. Wonder what the value of 250 million gallons is?

 

https://www.sdcwa.org/projects-programs/facilities/lake-hodges/

 

Time to tell you about global warming and the drought. Don’t forget, don’t water your lawns cause we are in a shortage… and lets up your water rates while we are at it.

 

An acre-foot of untreated water is $1500.

767x1500= $1,150,500

 

Ca leadership are the definition of hypocrisy

 

Has anyone fished San Dieguito River downstream of Hodges dam recently? As kids in the early 80's, we used to hike from an area east of the flower stand along Del Dios Highway and catch green sunfish, bluegill, and small bass, from the stream.

 

Off limits now...

 

Southern steelhead.. zzzzz

 

They’re still there. Ssshhhhhhh!

 

The least they can do it open it shore fishing in February, maybe give access to float tube and kayaks too. They have been losing. A lot of money because of that.

 

Not a reason to stop fishing but this article makes me wonder if the water they are throwing away is of
"low quality"

Union Tribune Quote.
As the water level at Hodges is drawn down, officials plan to route as much as they can to other reservoirs, which are connected by pipelines. However, some water from the lake’s lower depths may be of poor quality and unsuitable for storage, so it may be discharged into the San Dieguito River, said Lau.

 

They are slow walking the repair of the dam so they can hit us with a closure to rebuild, which will take another 10 years. Oh and the water they released the value has to be paid to MPWD. Nothing is free including water!!

 

Why would a water district have to be paid for water that fell from the sky? Thanks.

 

Olivenhein was 70% full as of Sep. 26. Dunno how much of this has changed...or whether the water in Hodges doesn't meet some water quality standard....

Reservoirs - San Diego County Water Authority

 

Good point, BGR,some of that silt in the bottom is probably as nasty as the South Bay in terms of chemical pollutants.

Not sure whether allowing fishing from shore or kayaks/tubes would be cost effective. And as long as the water level's above what's deemed "safe," I doubt any water district official would risk letting anyone fish. If there was a dam failure a la Oroville, my estate would get rich from the lawsuits....after they found the tattered remains of my corpse and float tube in the golf course ponds downstream.....

 

"Lake Hodges reservoir keeper Conway Bowman told Western Outdoor News the water level was too low to pump that water up to Olivenhain Reservoir, so the only option was to release it into the river below the dam." from WON article:

A quarter billion gallons of water released from Lake Hodges | Western Outdoor News (wonews.com)

 

I totally agree, I’m just waiting for them to say that the Lake is closed for 8 years because they have to the replace dam.

 

Pretty sure if “they” had it their way, all of our lakes would be closed to recreation.