Re: Cull Canyon Deep Mud

On 9/11/2024 9:10 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:56:59 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
 

This is for Tom.
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(Sept 2013)
"Cull Canyon Reservoir / Dam"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZDs5JUr1M>
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Compliments of the Castro Valley Sanitary District.
<https://www.facebook.com/CVSan>
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Looks like the reservoir has been a problem for at least 11 years. The
video explains why fixing the deep mud problem is difficult.  More
recent photos show a functional lake.  This page explains the
sedimentation problem:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Cull_Canyon_Regional_Recreation_Area#Reservoir_sedimentation_issue>

I really like this proposed (political) solution:
"Alameda County engineers have proposed to notch the reservoir's weir.
This would let water flow downstream, leaving the accumulated sediment
behind. Ackerman said that cost would be less than $1 million, and that
the seismic threat would be eliminated because the (California)
Division of Safety of Dams would no longer consider it a dam if it
didn't hold back water."
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Hey Tom.  On your next ride, could you check if the dam has a notch?
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In any case, there's no indication that the deep mud will impact Tom's
bicycle rides or the use of the various trails:
<https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/cull_canyon_map.pdf>
Perhaps if you stop spinning your wheels there might be less silt.

 It isn't a notch and at one time I showed a picture of it. It is a ground
level spillway that they used to drain the water off of the lake when the
mud raised to a level in which the lake became too shallow for fish to
survive in.
 I begsn talking about the lake behind the dam in 2011 or so which means 12
or so years ago. This argument has been ongoing since that time with you
showing pictures from 2020 and me telling you about 2011 and you denying
it. When you are informed about something you should believe it first
unless there is contra-indications and there weren't. Or perhaps you don't
remember my life membership in the Aeolian Yacht Club.
 Stop making a fool out of yourself for nothing. You have been wrong in
every argument with me and for what?

IIRC, the only time Jeff was even partially wrong was over this dam(n) issue. In every other case you've been completely wrong.

What did you achieve except the
approval of Flunky who spends all day screwing his employers?

Now tommy, don't be jealous because I'm actually able to hold down a good job. It's a reflection of what you did wrong with your life, and it's high time you come to terms with it.

 You had unveiled contempt for your teachers but somehow you respect
Krygowski? You three want to argue that Slocomb did indeed have an A&P? I
never said otherwise. I said that it didn't MATTER because the Air Force
does things differently. They didn't even bother to train him in the AF
way - they gave him a nothing job - crew chief on an obsolete bomber.
 I was only at five airbases.

five airbases in four years (which would include reducing the time by the months at basic training), that works out to less than 9 months at each station assignment. Gee, they couldn't stand you that badly that they kept bouncing you out to be someone elses problem? Seems to be the story of your "career".

But NONE of them had a machine shop.

More likely, they chose not to tell you about it, knowing the danger you posed to yourself and others with power tools and machinery.
  Perhaps

some old WW II base might have had one "just in case". But not since the
Army Air Corp became the Air Force. Remember that Slocomb was a CREW CHIEF
and knew full well that an A2C could sign off work sheets. So he has been
lying from the time he signed on here. Or perhaps you don't remember his
stories about him and his wife riding into Bangkok and then more recently
saying she didn't ride.
 It doesn't matter to me if the lot of you want to tell each other lies.
But don't blame me if I know better.

Too bad that's never the case.