He 109,000 mau kānaka ma Placer County, 16 ma ka hikina ʻākau o Sacramento ma Interstate 80, ke koi nei ke kūlanakauhale o Roseville i ka wai mai ka muliwai ʻAmelika ma o Folsom Lake ma mua o ka lako. No ke aha mai? E hoʻopiʻi i ka maloʻo o ka makahiki i hala me ka ua a me ka hau ʻole o Malaki a me ʻApelila.
"Ua manaʻolana mākou i ka ua piha i kēia hoʻoilo," wahi a Lisa Amaral, ka luna mālama mālama wai no ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Roseville. "A laila hāʻule ka hau, 121 pakeneka o ka maʻamau i kēia Ianuali, e hoʻoheheʻe ʻia i ka lepo mai ka wā mua a me ka mahana." I ka waena o Pepeluali, ua hoʻouna ka US Bureau of Reclamation i nā leka i nā kūlanakauhale mai Bakersfield a i Redding, kāna mea kūʻai wai ma ka Central Valley Project. Ua hoʻomaka ʻia ka CVP i ka makahiki 1935 no ka hoʻoneʻe ʻana i ka wai mai ke awāwa ʻākau a hiki i kona ʻaoʻao hema e kōkua i ka ʻoihana mahiai.
ʻO ka leka BoR iā Roseville i ʻōlelo ʻia e mākaukau no ka ʻoki ʻana i ka makahiki he 25 pakeneka ma ke kūlanakauhale o ka makahiki 2008 wai wai mai Folsom Lake, ma muli o kāna wānana makahiki no ka hāʻule ʻana o ka ua a me ka ʻikepili snowpack mai California's Dept. of Water Resources, wahi a ka ʻōlelo a BoR Jeff McCracken. .
ʻO ka hapa o Roseville i ka makahiki 2008 he 1,200 ʻeka kapuaʻi o ka wai. Ua like ia me ka nui o ka wai a 1,600 mau hale noho e hoohana ai i ka makahiki hookahi. (ʻO ka ʻeka kapuaʻi wai he ʻeka ʻāina i uhi ʻia me hoʻokahi kapuaʻi wai, a i ʻole 325,851 mau galani.)
ʻO Roseville, kahi e loaʻa ai he 400 ʻeka kapuaʻi o ka wai mai ka wai o lalo, e kūʻai pū ana hoʻi i 10,000 ʻeka kapuaʻi o ka wai i kēlā me kēia makahiki mai Placer County Water District, kahi keʻena kalana ākea. ʻO kāna ʻaelike me Roseville he mau koho e kūʻai aku iā ia he 20,000 ʻeka kapuaʻi o ka wai mai ka Hell Hole a me French Meadow reservoirs ma ka waena waena o ka muliwai ʻAmelika, wahi a Brain Martin, ka luna o nā lawelawe ʻenehana no ka PCWD.
Ma ka lā 29 ʻApelila, hoʻolaha ʻo Roseville e hoʻomaka ana i nā hana hōʻemi wai i kēia makahiki, ma ke ʻano he "Stage One conservation alert."
"Ke noi nei mākou i ko mākou poʻe kamaʻāina a me nā ʻoihana e hana i kā lākou ʻāpana a hoʻololi i kā lākou hoʻohana ʻana i ka wai e hoʻokō i kahi hōʻemi 10 pakeneka ma 2008," wahi a Derrick Whitehead, ka luna o Roseville's Environmental Utilities, ka hui wai lehulehu.
No kēia hopena, ke aʻo nei ke kūlanakauhale i ka poʻe noho e hoʻoinu i ko lākou mau lau me ka liʻiliʻi, lawe i ka ua pōkole, a hoʻohana i nā mea wai kahe haʻahaʻa. Ke hoʻolimalima nei ʻo Roseville i ʻelua mau limahana manawaleʻa e hoʻonui i ka papahana hoʻolaha o ke kūlanakauhale. ʻO nā mea hoʻolimalima hou, i hoʻolimalima ʻia mai Mei a Sepatemaba, e hana pū ana me nā limahana i kēia manawa e hoʻopili i nā mea hoʻohana wai ma nā ʻano hana like ʻole.
No kēia hopena, ʻo ka hoʻokō ʻana kekahi ʻāpana o ka hoʻolaha ʻana o ke kūlanakauhale. E hui me "nā mākaʻi ʻōpala wai" o Roseville. Ke nānā nei lākou i ka hoʻohana ʻana o ka poʻe kamaʻāina i ka wai ma lalo o ke code municipal o ke kūlanakauhale a me nā kulekele mālama mālama o kēia manawa. Hoʻopaʻa kēia i ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana i nā hale, nā ala kaʻa, nā wahi kaʻa a me nā alahele ke ʻole ia e koi ʻia no ke olakino lehulehu. E lawelawe nā limahana hale ʻaina i ka wai i nā mea kūʻai aku ke noi wale lākou.
ʻEhā mau ʻanuʻu ʻē aʻe a koi ʻia ka papahana mālama wai o Roseville inā ʻaʻole hoʻoponopono ka hana manawaleʻa i ka pilikia hoʻolako a koi. ʻO nā papa ʻelua a ʻelima paha e kauoha i ka hoʻemi ʻana i ka wai ma o ka hoʻonui ʻana o 10 pakeneka o kēlā me kēia.
ʻO Roseville ke kaiāulu mua ma ka ʻāina ʻo Sacramento e hahai i kahi kulekele o ka mālama ʻana i ka wai. ʻO nā mea kūʻai aku o ke kūlanakauhale, 89 pakeneka o nā mea kūʻai aku, hoʻohana i ka hapalua o ka lako wai, wahi a Amaral. ʻO ka poʻe hoʻohana wai ʻole o ke kūlanakauhale he 11 pakeneka a hoʻopau i ka 50 pakeneka o ka waiwai.
Ke hana nei ʻo Roseville ma lalo o ke Kānāwai Hoʻolālā Hoʻolālā Wai Kūleʻa o Kaleponi o 1983. ʻO ke kānāwai, i hoʻololi ʻia i nā manawa he nui ma mua o 25 mau makahiki, ʻōlelo ʻo ia "pono kēlā me kēia mea hoʻolako wai kūlanakauhale e hana i nā hana āpau e hōʻoia i ka pae kūpono o ka hilinaʻi i kāna lawelawe wai e lawa ai i nā pono o ka wai. kona mau ʻano like ʻole o nā mea kūʻai aku i ka wā maʻamau, maloʻo, a me nā makahiki wai maloʻo he nui."
Ma waho aʻe o kēia kānāwai, aia ke kumu o ka hoʻoikaika o ka mea kūʻai.
"Ua hui pū ʻia ka hoʻemi ʻana i ka wai i ka wā i manaʻo ʻia ka poʻe e makaʻala i ka wai," wahi a Ron Stork, ka mea kākoʻo kulekele kiʻekiʻe no ka Friends of the River, ka mea i kapa iā ia iho ʻo "ka hui mālama muliwai holoʻokoʻa o Kaleponi."
Ma kēlā memo, aia nā palena i ka nui o nā mea kūʻai wai hoʻokahi e hana, e like me Joe Medeiros, he polopeka o ka ʻepekema kaiapuni ma Sierra College.
"Hōʻeha iaʻu i ka wā e noi ai nā kaona i nā mea hoʻohana e hōʻoki i kā lākou hoʻohana wai," wahi āna. "Maikaʻi wale kēlā inā ʻo ka mahiʻai, e hoʻohana ana i ka 80 pakeneka o ka wai i hoʻomohala ʻia ma Kaleponi, hana i kāna ʻāpana kūpono.
A he pipi kālā? ʻO ka ʻoihana mahiʻai holoʻokoʻa he $57.7 biliona o ka hoʻokele waiwai o Kaleponi he $1.5 trillion ma 2005 me $53.6 biliona o $1.4 trillion ma 2004, wahi a ka California Dept. of Finance's. ʻO ʻelua o nā mea kanu wai-nui loa o Central Valley he alfalfa a me ka pulupulu i ka makahiki 2006, e like me ka California Dept. of Food and Agriculture.
I kēia manawa, ke piʻi nei nā kumukūʻai kinoea, ke hāʻule nei nā kumukūʻai home a ke nāwaliwali nei ka mākeke hana. I ka hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻana o kēia mau ʻokiʻoki i kāna mau hale noho a me nā mea kūʻai aku ʻole, ke hoʻohana nei ʻo Roseville i nā mea hoʻoikaika kālā e like me nā rebates. ʻO kekahi laʻana o kēia he uku uku no ka poʻe kūʻai aku e kūʻai i nā mea pono home e hoʻohana i ka wai liʻiliʻi.
Ma ke kamaʻilio e pili ana i nā kumukūʻai a me nā kumuwaiwai, ua hoʻomaka ʻo Roseville e koi i nā mika wai no ke kūkulu hale hou ma 1992. I ka waena o 2001 ua hoʻokumu ke kūlanakauhale i kahi pahuhopu o 15,000 mau mika wai a ua hoʻokomo ʻo 9,000 i kēia lā, wahi a Sean Bigley, ka mea loiloi hoʻokele no ke kūlanakauhale.
Aia ma lalo o Roseville ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Sacramento. Hoʻopaʻa ʻia kāna palapala hoʻohui i nā mika wai noho. ʻO ia ke kumu o ka hoʻohana hewa ʻana i ka wai e nā kamaʻāina o ke kūlanakauhale, nona nā kuleana kānāwai i ka wai mai ka muliwai ʻAmelika, wahi a Stork.
Ma Roseville naʻe, ʻaʻole ia he lāʻau lapaʻau no ka hoʻohana ʻana o ka poʻe kamaʻāina i ka wai. ʻIke ʻia, ʻo ka mea a ka poʻe economists i kapa ai i ka hōʻailona kumukūʻai he mau palena e pili ana i ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka wai.
I ka manawa like, aia ka pili o ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka wai. He ʻaha kūkā kūlanakauhale i koho ʻia ʻo Roseville me kahi kōmike hoʻohana lehulehu e lawe i ka manaʻo mai nā kamaʻāina. Noho nā makaʻāinana a me nā mea hoʻoponopono i ka hui like. ʻAʻole ʻo ka loaʻa kālā ke kumu hoʻokahi i ka hana kulekele.
ʻO ka ʻokoʻa, aia nā hui wai pilikino e like me Fruitridge Vista a me Golden State Water hui ma Sacramento County. Na ka Moku'āina ʻo Public Utilities Commission, i hoʻokumu ʻia ma Kapalakiko, e hoʻoponopono i kēia mau ʻoihana, ʻaʻole nā mea kūʻai kūloko e koho balota. ʻO kēia ʻoiaʻiʻo ka mea e ʻokoʻa loa ai ka hoʻokele wai o ka PUC mai kahi mea pono lehulehu e like me Roseville, wahi a Stork.
"He mea paʻakikī ke noʻonoʻo i kahi waiwai lehulehu ma mua o ka wai," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Dave Evans, ka luna o ke keʻena geology ma CSU Sacramento.
Ma ka lā 1 o Mei, ua hoʻokuʻu ka Mokuʻāina ʻOihana Waiwai i kāna noiʻi hau hope loa o 2008. Ua hōʻike ka ʻikepili i ka 67 pakeneka o ka wai hau o ka maʻamau no ka lā, a puni ka mokuʻāina. Hiki i kēia ʻikepili ke hoʻololi i ke kāhea ʻana o Kaleponi Arnold Schwarzenegger i Feb. e ʻoki i ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka wai i kēlā me kēia kanaka he 20 pakeneka ma 2020.
E kūʻē i kēia ʻano, ua loaʻa i nā kamaʻāina ʻo Roseville nā leka i ka hopena o Mei e hōʻike ana i nā hana mālama wai ʻoluʻolu o ke kūlanakauhale. ʻAʻole maopopo i ke ʻano o kā lākou hana ʻana ma laila a hoʻololi i ke kulekele hoʻohana wai no ka ʻāina ʻo Sacramento a me Kaleponi. Nui ka pilikia.
Noho ʻo Seth Sandronsky a kākau ma Sacramento [pale ʻia ka leka uila].