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• 20 years later, Acampo man remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall

• With song and speech, veterans are recognized in Lodi

• Will Lodi adopt a program that will allow volunteers to work at parks?

• Liberty Ranch construction at standstill as state pulls funds

• City of Lodi begins annual leaf removal program Monday

• Robotics team at Jim Elliot invited to compete in Israel

• Correction

February 9th, 2010

• Middle College High School rated one of the best — and a bargain, to boot

• Lodi decathlon boasts top team in county

• Man who sparked counterfeit case pleads guilty

• Local businessman will visit Haiti to look for family

• Man who claimed to be Yosemite Sam pleads guilty to meth charge

• David Harmer seeks Republican congressional nod

• Lack of evidence in case against suspect in 'drug deal' stabbing

• Regional Roundup

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Regional Roundup

February 2nd, 2010

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Correction

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Jumpers across California

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (75)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• President Obama's first year (45)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (45)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (44)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (34)
• We need to conduct respectful conversations (30)
• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam (25)

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Pardee Dam is high enough

We pulled into a construction area alongside the Folsom Dam Reservoir on the American River.

A formation of big earth movers were lined up in the yard. The reservoir was very low and it appeared that those big earth movers have been used to scoop out a huge amount of soil from the reservoir basin, thereby increasing the capacity of Folsom Lake.

Why not consider this approach at Pardee Lake? Instead of adding 30 some-feet to the height of the dam, why not leave the dam as is and increase the size of the reservoir?

If you like math problems, work on this: start with an acre of land, one foot deep, or a acre foot; divide the 43,560 cubic feet by 27 and come up with cubic yards.

Now contact Frank Alegre and ask him how many thousands of yards of soil and gravel his fleet of trucks hauled from the foothills to reinforce the Delta levees at the time of the last super flood.

Next, ask the premier math instructor at Lodi High, Mr. George Kurkis, if one acre of solid is equal to 1,611 cubic yards. If correct, the removal of this amount of earth from the reservoir basin would increase the capacity by one acre foot.

Now, if Mr. Alegre says it can be one, multiply all figures by, say, 200,000, giving us 200,000 acre-feet of water. This amount of water is the stated usage of 100,000 households annually.

EBMWD is developing a 30-year projection on the amount of water needed. The district has 30 years to enlarge the reservoir capacity.

Others may join in the project and locally, we may have more water.

The dam is high enough.

James McCarty
Lodi