Post by justasking on Mar 15, 2018 22:45:38 GMT
I started to think that it said "lake tide" on the map. Some tidal activity (sometimes lakes have tides) from a lake or through a lake to some kind of a water plant also depicted on the map.
I don't know enough about it to say.
But it led me to go through documents having to do with water construction specifically, and whether he could have had something to do with different projects, based on the times and locations.
Primarily I tried to go through some annual bulletins of the California State Water Project from the relevant years.
At least this matched to some degree, concerning his ~3 month absence from May 1977 to September 1977 (the one supposed to have had something to do with a broken shoulder):
West Delta Facilities - During May 1977, the Department proposed to construct three barriers in the Western Delta: Dutch Slough, Fisherman's Cut, and False River. The facilities were designed to reduce salinity intrusion to the central and southern Delta and conserve stored water. The Dutch Slough barrier was the only barrier constructed. It was completed on September 22, 1977, and removed on January 13, 1978. During January 1978, plans to construct the other two barriers were cancelled.
So approximately during the same time period he was gone at that time, they went through a construction of a water barrier. Yeah, he "returned" in Stockton a little before the finalization, but it's not like everyone who worked there couldn't have finished their part a little earlier. Or attack in the midst of the work project as it's nearing the finalization. And in fact, this project would have brought him closer to Stockton.
That's the clearest synchrony, but there is possibly something more. Already in the 1978 they seemed to be interested and making contracts about the utilization of Roaring River Slough, for example. And then there were some Bay area projects too in 1978-1979, but I don't seem to get a good picture about it. Some pumping stations might have been constructed at that point somewhere around the Bethany Reservoir. The general sense is that if he worked with those projects, he might have been exactly there in the Mt. Diablo and Bay Area at the time when he started attacking there 1978-1979. But like said, that seems more vague.
Then there was the construction of a hydropower plant above Pyramid Lake which was completed around 1981. With Pyramid Lake we come considerably closer to Ventura and Goleta.
Then some, additional (perhaps random and speculative) info:
Goleta Water plant was constructed 1974.
Then, a little about Dana Point in 1980:
Dana Hills Tennis Center
DHTC is a public tennis facility located in Dana Point, California. The construction of this amazing South Orange County public tennis center is unique in character because 6 of the 8 courts are constructed on the top deck of a 7.8 million-gallon water reservoir. In 1977 board members of the South Coast Water District decided to better utilize land space for water storage and, at the same time, provide a recreational facility that could be used by the community. Both purposes could be accomplished more functionally and aesthetically by building an underground concrete water reservoir in lieu of a steel tank.
In 1978 this issue was brought to the constituents of the SCWD, and they overwhelmingly approved a bond issue for the project. The size of the reservoir structure allows for 6 tennis courts to be built on top. In 1980 the project was completed, and the official plaque christening the facility as Dana Hills Recreational Park was placed on the reservoir.
That Tennis Center is 10 minute drive from Cockleshell Drive. It's like a 90 degree angle.
Okay, just something to think about. I think the map is somehow connected to water construction especially, but I'm not an expert. I hope someone has more patience to check the possible connections out more thoroughly.
I don't know enough about it to say.
But it led me to go through documents having to do with water construction specifically, and whether he could have had something to do with different projects, based on the times and locations.
Primarily I tried to go through some annual bulletins of the California State Water Project from the relevant years.
At least this matched to some degree, concerning his ~3 month absence from May 1977 to September 1977 (the one supposed to have had something to do with a broken shoulder):
West Delta Facilities - During May 1977, the Department proposed to construct three barriers in the Western Delta: Dutch Slough, Fisherman's Cut, and False River. The facilities were designed to reduce salinity intrusion to the central and southern Delta and conserve stored water. The Dutch Slough barrier was the only barrier constructed. It was completed on September 22, 1977, and removed on January 13, 1978. During January 1978, plans to construct the other two barriers were cancelled.
So approximately during the same time period he was gone at that time, they went through a construction of a water barrier. Yeah, he "returned" in Stockton a little before the finalization, but it's not like everyone who worked there couldn't have finished their part a little earlier. Or attack in the midst of the work project as it's nearing the finalization. And in fact, this project would have brought him closer to Stockton.
That's the clearest synchrony, but there is possibly something more. Already in the 1978 they seemed to be interested and making contracts about the utilization of Roaring River Slough, for example. And then there were some Bay area projects too in 1978-1979, but I don't seem to get a good picture about it. Some pumping stations might have been constructed at that point somewhere around the Bethany Reservoir. The general sense is that if he worked with those projects, he might have been exactly there in the Mt. Diablo and Bay Area at the time when he started attacking there 1978-1979. But like said, that seems more vague.
Then there was the construction of a hydropower plant above Pyramid Lake which was completed around 1981. With Pyramid Lake we come considerably closer to Ventura and Goleta.
Then some, additional (perhaps random and speculative) info:
Goleta Water plant was constructed 1974.
Then, a little about Dana Point in 1980:
Dana Hills Tennis Center
DHTC is a public tennis facility located in Dana Point, California. The construction of this amazing South Orange County public tennis center is unique in character because 6 of the 8 courts are constructed on the top deck of a 7.8 million-gallon water reservoir. In 1977 board members of the South Coast Water District decided to better utilize land space for water storage and, at the same time, provide a recreational facility that could be used by the community. Both purposes could be accomplished more functionally and aesthetically by building an underground concrete water reservoir in lieu of a steel tank.
In 1978 this issue was brought to the constituents of the SCWD, and they overwhelmingly approved a bond issue for the project. The size of the reservoir structure allows for 6 tennis courts to be built on top. In 1980 the project was completed, and the official plaque christening the facility as Dana Hills Recreational Park was placed on the reservoir.
That Tennis Center is 10 minute drive from Cockleshell Drive. It's like a 90 degree angle.
Okay, just something to think about. I think the map is somehow connected to water construction especially, but I'm not an expert. I hope someone has more patience to check the possible connections out more thoroughly.