Can’t seem to find anything online about its construction but my hometown is Beaumont CA. It wasn’t a big reservoir by any means but it was a good addition to the cities already pretty good flood management. We’d have the occasional mudslide but for the most part during heavy rains despite being in a valley we never had flood damage

The new one my home town built?

Hence the new reservoir. The city basically has artificial lakes in the winter because they have reservoirs spread around. You often see helicopters collecting water from those spots during wildfires.

I grew up in SoCal and my home town in the past 3 years has built a new reservoir, installed bigger storm drain pipes, and cleaned up the existing ones. Idk if it’s state wide but there seemed to be a genuine effort to make storm water management better.

Which is so unfortunate because NASA does a lot of earth related research and development too. I mean this new budget even has money said aside for climate related research.

I really wish we had a more direct say in what our taxes went towards. Idk how popular nasa is with your average voter but I know personally I would be voting for a much bigger budget for the agency.

I’ve always envisioned we’d all be living much simpler lives. Communities would become smaller and more tight knit, the idea of a “global economy” would slowly fade. Not complete collapse or anything, just forced into being less dependent on global supply chains