Creating Reservoirs

If you ask any of our kids where their happy place is, they'd say up in Island Park at the cabin.  My happy place, well, it also happens to be the cabin.  Island Park has had a special place in my heart since I was a little girl.  We'd go up and stay at my grandma's cabin and go boating in Island Park reservoir. It was here I learned to waterski, wakeboard, and surf.  It's in this reservoir that we fish, we jump off the docks to swim, and at night, we catch crawdads.   In the winter there is ice fishing and snowmobiling, and  In the fall when the water drops and sometimes gets almost empty, we ride our four-wheelers and razors down in the mud and the muck. Early in the spring and summer, if we've had a good snowpack, the reservoir will be completely full, and then as the weeks go by, the weather gets hot, and the farmers' crops grow, the reservoir water is used to irrigate the fields and the water levels drop.  Every time we visit the cabin the water gets lower and lower. Island Park Reservoir and many other reservoirs are man-made lakes that are created by building a dam across a river or over the outlet of a natural lake. The dam controls the water level and the amount of water that flows out of the reservoir. Reservoirs have been used since 3000 BCE to store water for watering crops and to provide continuous access to water. They are a holding place, a storage facility for future usage.    There are many aspects of our lives that we have reservoirs, or holding and storage, for use in the future time. Today we are going to talk about a few of our reservoirs, when to create them, and a few ideas on how! Listen In!