Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Coalition response...The strong leadership of past years that resulted in a water supply
system that fueled our great state is in need of repair. The Bay Delta
Conservation Plan provides an answer to part of that need. The leadership at
work in developing California's water future through the Bay Delta Conservation
Plan needs to continue its efforts.
Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Coalition response...Individuals who suggest that California is going to steal land and water
from Northern Californians are not focusing on the facts about land and water
rights. The twin tunnels under consideration as part of the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan are designed to move water to which users in the San Joaquin
Valley and Southern California already have rights. Water rights holders
in Northern California are protected by language in the California Water Code
that prevents any project from negatively impacting an existing water
right. Furthermore, the amount of water that will be allowed through the
tunnels is limited by the available supplies in the Sacramento River. During a
wet year more water can be moved because more is available in the system. When
it is dry, smaller amounts would be moved. A simple fact sheet outlines this
process here: www.farmwater.org/exportthrottle.pdf.
Story
From Central Valley Business Times - Tuesday, March 5,
2013
Coalition response...The State has invested $300 million since 2005 to strengthen Delta
levees and water officials report that those investments will continue.
However, according to DWR Director Mark Cowin, "...to rely solely on
levees to safeguard a water supply critical to the state's nearly $2 trillion
economy would be negligent." We agree.
One of the goals for the Bay
Delta Conservation Plan is to establish a reliable water supply. If improved
conveyance is not part of the future then only strengthening levees will not
provide that reliable water supply. It is important to realize that the current
movement of water through the Delta is subject to federal biological opinions
that have already taken 815,000 acre-feet of water since early December away
from farmers and 25 million Californians (farmwater.org/watersupplycutshurtusall.pdf).
If the legislative mandated goals
of a reliable water supply and a restored Delta ecosystem is to be achieved,
then an improved conveyance system must be a part of California's water future.
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