Comments on: The Rip Van Winkle of water projects – NAWAPA remerges after a 50 year slumber http://aquafornia.com/archives/16577 The California Water News blog! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:03:52 -0800 hourly 1 By: The week that was, 11/29-12/05/2009 | Chance of Rain http://aquafornia.com/archives/16577/comment-page-1#comment-23989 The week that was, 11/29-12/05/2009 | Chance of Rain Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:01:41 +0000 http://aquafornia.com/?p=16577#comment-23989 [...] The [NAWAPA] project would have dammed and reversed the flow of the Yukon and other rivers. Tunnels, pumping stations and canals would have moved water along the Rocky Mountains to the desert southwest. It even featured a “nuclear excavation” option, to speed the process of blasting mountains out of the way. – “The Rip van Winkle of water projects — NAWAPA emerges after 50 years of slumber,” Barry Nelson, NRDC Switchboard, December 4, 2009, via Aquafornia [...] [...] The [NAWAPA] project would have dammed and reversed the flow of the Yukon and other rivers. Tunnels, pumping stations and canals would have moved water along the Rocky Mountains to the desert southwest. It even featured a “nuclear excavation” option, to speed the process of blasting mountains out of the way. – “The Rip van Winkle of water projects — NAWAPA emerges after 50 years of slumber,” Barry Nelson, NRDC Switchboard, December 4, 2009, via Aquafornia [...]

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