{"id":101,"date":"2008-08-23T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/semitropic\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:21:28","slug":"semitropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/semitropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Semitropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s <i>Mercury<\/i> features an article by Paul Rogers about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_10283776\">the Semitropic Water Bank<\/a> down near Bakersfield, where the SCVWD has been storing water for the past decade. It&#8217;s not a true bank, in that we don&#8217;t get back the same water that we &#8220;deposit.&#8221; In years like this one when the District makes a &#8220;withdrawal,&#8221; it diverts water from the Delta that would have otherwise gone down to Semitropic. It&#8217;s actually a big weakness, since any disruption in Delta pumping would immediately increase our need for the water, while making it impossible to reach.<\/p>\n<p>When I was reading about Semitropic this spring, I got the impression that its storage capacity was a result of way too much pumping in the past. But Paul doesn&#8217;t mention that angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis morning&#8217;s Mercury features an article by Paul Rogers about the Semitropic Water Bank down near Bakersfield, where the SCVWD&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/semitropic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Semitropic&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}