Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Bob Kelley, Sacramento
Bee
Re "Low storage brings water
ration orders" (Page A1, Dec. 29): My understanding is that Folsom Dam
will cut its releases next week. The American River will become lower and with
the other dams, such as Shasta and Oroville, low, that means the Sacramento
River will drop as well. If the Delta tunnels project were in now, what would
the impact be?
Coalition response... It is a mistake to assume that the twin tunnels are designed to operate
all the time under any circumstances. Clearly stated in publicly released
documents are examples of operating guidelines that respond to Sacramento River
flow. At times when there is abundant water in the river the tunnels will move
a fraction of it south into storage for people who have a legal right to use
it. When the river is low, tunnel operations would cease in order to address
required protections for the Delta. Those operating rules one year ago would
have provided enough water to meet the annual needs of more than 4.6 million
people. Instead it went to the ocean with no measurable environmental benefit.
Read more at www.farmwater.org/exportthrottle.pdf
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: David Siders, Sacramento
Bee
Former tunnel plan chief will aid
it as volunteer
Jerry Meral, the chief steward of
Gov. Jerry Brown's $25 billion water project while deputy secretary of the
state's Natural Resources Agency, is going to work for an environmental group
supporting the controversial plan.
From: John W. Schuff,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Folsom Lake's drop
exposes lost town" (Our Region, Jan. 1): The mostly dry bed of Folsom Lake
holds vast potential in our drought. Southern California wants to do to Folsom
Lake what they did to Mono Lake. We can't let them.
Water Quality
From: John Holland, Modesto
Bee
Farmers will meet in Modesto and
Merced this month to get updates on monitoring for water pollution from their
land.
They belong to the East San
Joaquin Water Quality Coalition, which has been testing the water for about a
decade as an alternative to direct, and more costly, regulation by the state.
Water Supply
From: Lance Johnson,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Drought requires water conservation"
(Editorials, Dec. 22): California really is facing a third drought year and an
unparalleled water crisis. Water conservation has been standard procedure on
farms for decades, so The Bee must be calling for urban water rationing.
From: Todd Fitchette, Western
Farm Press
On Jan. 3, California water
officials set out to survey the state's snowpack. Word is they packed light and
left the snowshoes at home, heading out instead with sunscreen and hats to
protect themselves from the sun.
This is not good, folks. While
comparisons to the drought of 1976-1977 that nearly claimed Shasta Lake and had
other key reservoirs at record lows are noteworthy, we're really in a much
worse predicament than we were then as California's population has increased by
16 million to more than 38 million today.
From: George Warren, News10
In a desperate attempt to avoid a
water crisis in the coming months, the operator of Folsom Dam may reduce
outflows to the bare minimum necessary to protect spawning steelhead trout in
the American River.
Bureau of Reclamation Central
California area manager Drew Lessard said his staff was in talks with federal
and state wildlife officials to determine how much outflows could be cut
without harming the winter run steelhead, a federally-protected species.
Meetings
From: Staff, California Water
Commission
The California Water Commission
will hold a meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 in Sacramento.
This meeting will be webcast live
at: http://cwc.videossc.com/
For more information about the
California Water Commission, please visit our website at: www.cwc.ca.gov
From: Staff, East San Joaquin
Water Quality Coalition
Modesto: 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to
3 p.m. Wednesday in Harvest Hall at the Stanislaus County Agricultural Center,
3800 Cornucopia Way, off Crows Landing Road.
Merced: 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3
p.m. Jan. 15 in the San Joaquin Hall at the Merced County Fairgrounds, 900
Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
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