Pros And Cons Of Aversion To Diversion

Aversion to Diversion Discussion
Chapter four, Aversion to Diversion discussed the idea of diversion in the water system many project through out the the 60’s-90’s were proposed; one of the most daring engineering schemes ever in regards to water. The chapter touched on damming the canyon, the north American water and power alliance, and different regulations put in place for this proposed plan. It Also discussed the pros and cons to damming the canyon in which the cons outweighed the pros. There were a number of supporters for these projects. Although the projects were proposed to help the water engineering system many of them were never built.
The first main point is the proposal to damm the canyon. The damming of the canyon would not be a natural process and would actually disrupt the natural hydrology in north America due to replumbing, which leads into the second main point; The intention of this plan was to move part of the flows of the rivers into the rocky mountain trench. The trench was ideal because it was a natural canyon that stretched through a large portion of British Columbia. Damming the canyon had its benefits; it would create a five-hundred-mile
Powder River Pipeline Inc. (PRPI) proposed grinding coal and mixing it with water to make a slurry, this was then injected into the the pipe that was buried three feet below, the pipe would be able to send coal to power plants in the Midwest. This plan wasn’t sufficient for the sake of the great lakes and caused a lot of controversy. The seventh point which was also proposed by PRPI was Ogallala. The PRPI launched a study on the Ogallala diversion which caused millions of dollars. The study investigated the transfer of water from one basin to another which fed into the great lakes. This was unsettling due to the fact that federal official funded millions of dollars to investigate the transfer of