Why not build another dam either further upstream on the Tar River in Nash/Franklin County or downstream in Edgecombe/Pitt County?
See above – I would personally not be at all surprised if there are several new requests for water supply reservoir construction over the next few year, but it is very expensive and takes time – too long to work as a reaction to a short-term, albeit exceptional, drought. Can the current reservoir be dredged or dug out – “a deeper hole that holds more water?” A city official said in 2002 that it was actually easier to dredge the reservoir while is was full rather than when it was empty – well now we’ve missed another opportunity to do this. Again, probably better answered by a water resource engineer. But it would be very expensive to dredge and haul dirt out of the reservoir area to make it deeper. A single truck load would only contain the equivalent storage of water supply for a few people per day. And dredging but simply shifting the sediment to another location in the reservoir wouldn’t add any capacity.
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