Who is to blame?

According to an article on Castanet, the lake level is higher than in 1997. And there is apparently nothing that can be done about it. Well, in my opinion that is a bunch of BS. Nothing can be done now, but what about one or two months ago? 

I’ve lived in this city since 1979 and I can remember that this problem has happened several times and next to nothing has been done. Will anything be done this time? Very likely not.

You can go back year after year and the news is repeated almost word by word. The snowpack is below average, the snowpack is above average, we don’t have enough water, we have too much water, etc.

This is not rocket science. Maybe we did have a lack of snow at a time, but the long winter and the wet weather has dumped a big load of snow very late. It is also not the first time that it has been cooler than normal for some time and the spring is almost bypassed. From cold, it goes to hot in just a few days. And if it gets too hot too fast, we have a problem, it’s called flooding.

Now, here is my question – why didn’t we lower the lake level just after we got all that additional snow? We knew that it has to melt at one time and come down as water.

Two things we know for sure – history repeats itself and we never learn!

Roger von Dach