Monday, October 29, 2012

News articles and links from October 29, 2012


Rivers

Column
By Dan Bacher
From Marysville Appeal-Democrat - Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012

Coalition response...Farmers were assured that water they gave up for the restoration program would be recaptured, recirculated and reused to continue to produce food on the family farms it once irrigated. They are still waiting for those plans to be developed as envisioned in the ROD. In the meantime, ongoing loss of irrigation water will result in consumer uncertainty at the grocery store on the quality, abundance and cost of fresh fruit and vegetables and the potential loss of on-farm jobs.

Seepage that occurred from the initial experimental restoration flows that flooded farmland adjacent to the river was no surprise to farmers in the area. They warned that the planned process of increasing the river flows would threaten their crops and they were right. The pending lawsuit seeks to have the flows adjusted to protect private property until such time as necessary improvements are made to the river and levees, as required in the federal legislation implementing the Settlement.

WATER SUPPLY

Story
From SF Chronicle - Monday, Oct. 29, 2012

Story
From Western Farm Press - Monday, Oct. 29, 2012

Announcement
From Chico Enterprise-Record - Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012

Blog
By Jeanne
From Jolly Tomato - Friday, Oct. 26, 2012

Press release
From USBR - Friday, Oct. 26, 2012

DELTA

Report
From Delta RMP

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