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Riverside wants inflatable dam on Santa Ana River to boost water supply

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 23, 2009 at 6:11 am

From the Riverside Press-Enterprise:

“Water officials are floating an idea for a 700-foot-wide inflatable rubber dam across the Santa Ana River near Colton to capture runoff and recharge groundwater basins — a hedge against continuing drought and restrictions on imported supplies.

The dam would be a thick rubber cylinder bolted onto a concrete foundation in the streambed. It would be inflated “like a bicycle tire” with giant air compressors, said Kevin Milligan, assistant general manager of Riverside Public Utilities, which is heading the project.

Some water would be stored behind the 8-foot-tall dam so it could percolate into the ground for later use, and some would flow into five interconnected holding ponds on the west side of Interstate 215, south of Interstate 10. The project would add enough water to supply up to 24,000 families for a year, 25 percent more than what comes out of the basin now, Milligan said. … “

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November 23, 2009 · Filed Under Southern California

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  1. The week that was | Chance of Rain on November 29th, 2009 9:42 am

    [...] The dam would be a thick rubber cylinder bolted onto a concrete foundation in the stream bed. — “Riverside wants inflatable dam on Santa Ana River to boost water supply,” Riverside Press-Enterprise, November 22, 2009, via Aquafornia [...]

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