Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN

Letter
By John Kerhlikear
From Sacramento Bee - Sunday, March 24, 2013

Coalition response...The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is more than a water supply proposal; it also includes benefits for species and habitat as a result of being a habitat conservation plan. BDCP has been developed under Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act and the California Natural Community Conservation Planning program. These two directives require BDCP to have a plan that covers all the species that are affected in the planning area by the project.

The proposed habitat areas in the south Delta are designed to create favorable conditions for increased survival of salmon, steelhead and other species.  Biologists have indicated that added habitat could result in higher productivity for the salmonid fish by giving them more area in which to grow instead of being flushed immediately out of the Delta.

Letter
Alice Hendrix
From Sacramento Bee - Sunday, March 24, 2013

Coalition response...In 2009 the California legislature approved legislation to establish a reliable water supply and to restore the Delta ecosystem. The proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan is in response to that legislative mandate and represents years of study by scientists and researchers. Those afraid of the amount of diversions from the water flowing through the Delta should understand that limits exist to safeguard the estuary. The amount of water that the project could move is based on what river conditions would allow; sometimes more and sometimes less. Visit www.farmwater.org/exportthrottle.pdf to learn more about exports.

Letter
By Dan Bacher
From Sacramento Bee - Sunday, March 24, 2013

Coalition response...Comparing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan's two tunnels to the Peripheral Canal of years past is a false comparison. The two tunnels have a capacity to move 9,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) while the Peripheral Canal's capacity was 21,800 cfs. The tunnels include three, advanced technology screens to protect multiple species of fish; the Peripheral Canal had only one screen designed to protect salmon and striped bass. Visit http://www.farmwater.org/p-canalcomparison.pdf and learn more.

Benefiting from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan would be 25 million Californians who rely on the Delta for a portion of their water supply, plus three million acres of farmland that grows the fresh fruits and vegetables that consumers seek in their grocery stores.

RIVERS

Letter
By Ralph Mendershausen
From Modesto Bee - Monday, March 25, 2013

Coalition response...HR 934 does not remove the Merced River from Wild and Scenic Rivers Act designation. The legislation would raise the spillway at New Exchequer Dam, not the dam, by 10 feet. This action would inundate the last 1,800 feet of the 122-mile stretch of the Merced River, far from Yosemite, for two to eight weeks every few years. That's 1/350 of the protected stretch of the river.

Individuals should realize that construction of New Exchequer Dam was completed in 1967. Twenty years later in 1987 the Wild and Scenic River Act encroached on the hydroelectric project boundary on the Merced River. HR 934 creates an increased reliability of available water for farmers to grow food for consumers.

WATER SUPPLY

Blog
By Mark Grossi
From fresnobeehive - Monday, March 25, 2013

Letter
From Modesto Bee - Monday, March 25, 2013

BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN

Blog
By Chris "Maven" Austin
From Maven's Notebook - Monday, March 25, 2013

Story
From Capitol Press - Monday, March 25, 2013

Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Monday, March 25, 2013

Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Sunday, March 24, 2013

RIVERS

Story
From ACWA - Friday, March 22, 2013

DELTA

Blog
By Cary Blake
From Western Farm Press - Monday, March 25, 2013

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