Press Release
From: Chris
Knopp, Delta Stewardship Council
Chris Knopp,
Executive Officer of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), released the
following statement regarding the recent lawsuits filed against the DSC seeking
a redo of the Council's recently adopted (May 16) comprehensive management plan
for the Delta.
Blogs
From: Alex
Breitler, eSanJoaquin.com
By my count, seven
lawsuits have been filed targeting the recently approved Delta Plan.
Here are all seven
complaints. Happy reading.
From: Jay Lund, Californiawaterblog.com
Much of the western
and central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has sunk deeply below sea level, and
it continues to subside as its marsh soils erode from being drained and farmed.
At the same time, sea level is rising. The two trends increase these islands'
likelihood of flooding from major storms, earthquakes, burrowing rodents and
even ship collisions (Lund 2011).
Litigation
From: KTVU.com
Several opposing
groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the
ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May.
The four suits,
filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water
users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two co-equal goals of
providing a more reliable water supply for millions of Californians and
protecting and restoring the delta ecosystem.
From: The Record
Searchlight
Several opposing
groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the
ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May.
The four suits,
filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water
users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two co-equal goals of
providing a more reliable water supply for millions of Californians and
protecting and restoring the delta ecosystem.
(Coalition Note:
Record Searchlight authors include comments from CWIN representative and
exclude DSC public statement found in KTVU Story.)
From: KCRA.com, AP
From: News10.net, AP
Environmental and
fishing groups have filed a lawsuit against a broad, long-range plan to manage
the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The lawsuit -
announced on Monday - is the fourth lawsuit filed against the Delta Plan over
the past month.
From: Matt
Weiser, Sacramento Bee
From: Matt
Weiser, Modesto Bee
A planning document
intended to resolve decades of water conflict in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta was instead greeted by a flood of lawsuits on Monday.
At least seven
lawsuits were filed in three counties against what is known as the Delta Plan.
The plan, which lays out a long-term strategy for developing and managing the
sensitive estuary, is required by 2009 state legislation. That law also created
the Delta Stewardship Council, a seven-member appointed commission charged with
crafting the vision.
From: Matt
Weiser, Sacramento Bee
A plan intended, at
least in part, to resolve decades of water conflict in the Delta has instead
spawned a flood of lawsuits, with at least five separate suits filed against
the plan in recent days.
The Delta Plan, as
it is known, was required by 2009 state legislation, which also created the
Delta Stewardship Council, the organization that adopted the plan on May 16.
Groundwater
From: Jim
Johnson, Santa Cruz Sentinel
State water board
members received an earful Tuesday of the fierce debate over California
American Water's potential right to pump from the overdrafted Salinas Valley
groundwater basin for the Monterey Peninsula water project.
During a special
meeting at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the State Water
Resources Control Board heard from Salinas Valley growers, their allies and
Peninsula interests as part of a public workshop on the water board staff's
draft review of the sticky water rights issue.
From: David
Sneed, The Tribune
On the surface, the
rural parts of San Luis Obispo County north of the Cuesta Grade are a picture
of pastoral idyll.
Rolling hills are
dotted with country homes - some modest, some palatial - many with horses and
other livestock grazing peacefully nearby. Much of the area is also covered
with thousands of acres of vineyards.
From: Julie
Lynem, The Tribune
With its miles of
vineyard-covered hills, Paso Robles is a wine enthusiast's dream and a boon to
the local economy. Wine and its related businesses generate thousands of jobs,
from the workers who tend the vines to those who design the wine labels, and it
has helped spawn a booming tourism industry.
Although the wine
industry's growth over the past 30 years has been one of the key economic
drivers for San Luis Obispo County, it has come at a high price. The Paso
Robles groundwater basin has suffered declining water levels, and that has
fueled grave concern about whether there will be enough water to sustain North
County residents and businesses - as well as the wine industry.
From: David
Sneed, The Tribune
California is one
of only two states in the nation that have not comprehensively regulated their
groundwater. The other is Texas.
The California
Constitution states and courts have upheld the doctrine that landowners whose
property overlies an underground aquifer have the right to pump reasonable
amounts of water from that aquifer as long as it is put to a beneficial use,
such as irrigating crops or supplying drinking water.
Water Bond
From: Richard
Lambros, Sacramento Bee
Re "California
needs more water storage to end conflicts, bolster its economy"
(Viewpoints, June 14): Sen. Dianne Feinstein's call for capturing more water
that flows needlessly into the ocean in wet years in preparation for dry years
is right on.
Her push for more
water storage in advance of parching conditions reinforces what another
statesman, Winston Churchill, once said: "Let our advance worrying become
advance thinking and planning."
Delta
From: Jeremy
Freitas, Sacramento Bee
It's hypocritical
for Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta interests to accuse west side farmers of
irrigating lands that should of never been irrigated when the majority of the
farmland in the delta exists because of levees that were created by farmers.
The west side has
some of the most fertile land in the world, and produces some of the highest
yielding crops per acre of any land in California. More storage, more
conveyance, an end to discharging partially treated sewage into the delta, and
reevaluation of the Endangered Species Act would ensure the recovery of this
great state.
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