Re: “Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires” (Feb. 9, Local weather Lab):
Seattle won’t be the biggest, strongest metropolis within the Northwest if not for the foresight and initiative of its early metropolis engineer, R.H. Thomson. He designed, funded and constructed many tasks that we proceed to take pleasure in in the present day, none greater than our fantastic water provide from the Cedar River watershed. Thomson deliberate and constructed for our water future, figuring out that progress would quickly tax the present provide. We’re once more very in need of consuming water.
The place is our R.H. Thomson once we want him/her in the present day? We’re working out of consuming and irrigation water, and the state of affairs will solely worsen with specialists’ predictions about extra of our precipitation coming within the type of rain, not snow. We’re seeing it occurring even now.
Leaders, engineers and water-supply specialists all want to start including immensely to our storage capability misplaced resulting from diminished mountain snowfall. Reservoirs and present our bodies of water want to return on-line, as our snow is quickly gone as a storage mechanism. Construct now! Don’t procrastinate!
Charles Watts, Bellevue
