Comments on: Oro Valley Reservoir http://www.orovalleyhomes4sale.com/oro-valley-living/oro-valley-reservoir/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Smith http://www.orovalleyhomes4sale.com/oro-valley-living/oro-valley-reservoir/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Dave Smith Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:45:26 +0000 http://www.orovalleyhomes4sale.com/oro-valley-living/oro-valley-reservoir/#comment-184 Todd, Right now we don't store it at all, it all runs off. Second the water I used in the picture is right here in Tucson. It is the lakeside park. Some water storage has to be better than nothing. From what I hear we can thank Frank Lloyd Wright for the open aqueducts. Todd,

Right now we don’t store it at all, it all runs off. Second the water I used in the picture is right here in Tucson. It is the lakeside park.

Some water storage has to be better than nothing.

From what I hear we can thank Frank Lloyd Wright for the open aqueducts.

]]> By: Todd Schrauf http://www.orovalleyhomes4sale.com/oro-valley-living/oro-valley-reservoir/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Todd Schrauf Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:33:22 +0000 http://www.orovalleyhomes4sale.com/oro-valley-living/oro-valley-reservoir/#comment-183 Sorry Dave, but storing water in reservoirs in a desert climate like we have in Tucson is not a good idea due to the high evaporative losses. Did you know that about half of the water that enters the CAP canal is lost to evaporation? Maybe they should have built an underground pipe system instead? We have a large underground reservoir in the deep alluvial filled valleys and this is a much more appropriate place to store water. In fact we have been drawing down this reservoir at a rate of about 1 m per year since the 1940s when they invented the submersible pump although there is a long term plan in place to try and eliminate this continued drawdown or mining of water. Sorry Dave, but storing water in reservoirs in a desert climate like we have in Tucson is not a good idea due to the high evaporative losses. Did you know that about half of the water that enters the CAP canal is lost to evaporation? Maybe they should have built an underground pipe system instead? We have a large underground reservoir in the deep alluvial filled valleys and this is a much more appropriate place to store water. In fact we have been drawing down this reservoir at a rate of about 1 m per year since the 1940s when they invented the submersible pump although there is a long term plan in place to try and eliminate this continued drawdown or mining of water.

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