Emergency situation
A 530 ft snow pack could produce a 45 ft wall of water. An emergency measure could be to open the California aquifer as a reservoir to capture this clean water for positive benefit. An emergency declaration by Governor Newsome is needed to give such a project the needed priority to prevent a possible disaster.
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James Bullis commented
Short term, simple ditches can be constructed where the aquifer is shallow, such that access is created, much along the lines of the Santa Clara County system of percolation ponds that have, for many years, functioned as means of refreshing the smaller local aquifer.
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James Bullis commented
Longer term, the California aquifer is known to be difficult to fill. Yet we have clean water from melting snow pack every year that is lost into the salty Pacific. Boring technology is possibly useful in drilling tunnel aqua-ducts into the deep aquifer.