{"id":3230,"date":"2011-07-24T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2014-10-05T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:32:49","slug":"lets-share-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3230","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s share the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3233\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3233\" title=\"IMG_1939\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People are drawn to water<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The proponent would use a 10-ton jacking device to compress the dam&#8217;s stop-logs to allow only 1 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s of leakage flow over Bala&#8217;s north falls. Such a trickle would not draw people to Bala. The proponent would take 94% of the water through their proposed generating station, leaving only 6% for the falls.<\/p>\n<p>Note that by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafrontier.com\/riverdiversion.html\" target=\"_blank\">international agreement<\/a>, during days from April through October, 50% of the flow of the Niagara River must go over the falls, and the rest of the time (summer evenings and all winter), 25% of the flow must go over the falls. The rest of the flow is diverted and is shared equally between Canada and the US for power generation.<\/p>\n<p>Why should scenic flow in Bala be any less important than scenic flow at Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proponent would use a 10-ton jacking device to compress the dam&#8217;s stop-logs to allow only 1 m3\/s of leakage flow over Bala&#8217;s north falls. Such a trickle would not draw people to Bala. The proponent would take 94% of the water through their proposed generating station, leaving only 6% for the falls. Note that <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3230' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}