Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
The promise of thousands of
temporary construction jobs does not appear to have softened skepticism about
what Gov. Jerry Brown's $24.5 billion twin tunnels could mean for this region's
economy.
State officials of late have
repeatedly emphasized that the tunnels - whether Stockton residents think
they're good for the Delta or not - will at least provide an employment
opportunity for this city, still struggling to recover from the Great
Recession.
Coalition response...By definition, critics are those who have already chosen their position.
Regardless of how factual, extensive or valid the evidence is that is placed in
front of them, if it comes from an opposing viewpoint then they will
automatically reject it. Repeating their refusal to accept facts and reciting
their rhetoric does little to evaluate honestly the information being
discussed. Challenging the credentials of a researcher with the reputation for
excellence Dr. David Sunding of Berkeley brings to the topic is ludicrous. He
headed extensive study efforts to determine the cost-benefit analysis of the
Bay Delta Conservation Plan. Learn more for yourself about Dr. Sunding's
credentials and the efforts put into his study at http://www.swc.org/images/stories/BDCP_Cost_Benefit_Studies_8.26.13_FINAL.pdf
in a comparison of analyses.
The discounting of jobs that will
be created by the construction of the tunnels by those who are secure in their
jobs fails to consider the viewpoints of individuals who are seeking work. I'm
sure if you asked them whether the potential jobs would be beneficial their
answers would be different.
People continue to overlook that
the Bay Delta Conservation Plan provides benefits throughout the state and
those who look with a narrow viewpoint are rejecting the advantages available
for all of California.
Groundwater
From: Gosia Wozniacka/AP, Fresno Bee
From: Gosia Wozniacka/AP, Marysville Appeal-Democrat
From: Gosia Wozniacka/AP, Salinas Californian
From: Gosia Wozniacka/AP, KFMB - 8 TV
From: Gosia Wozniacka/AP, Minneapolis Star Tribune
For decades, this city in
California's agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful
groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its
population grew.
Transfers
From: Ken Carlson, Modesto Bee
By next month, Stanislaus County
is expected to have a long-awaited ordinance to restrict groundwater exports and
prohibit the sale of groundwater outside the county.
The Board of Supervisors is
expected to vote Oct. 1 on an ordinance billed as a starting point for
preventing the adverse effects of groundwater overdrafting.
Water Supply
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
California lacks a statewide
sustainable groundwater management program, instead leaving groundwater under
local control, and while there are a few stunning examples of successful and
sustainable groundwater management programs in the state, there are also dismal
examples of failure to manage some groundwater basins sustainably. So what are
the impediments to better basin management and what can be done to improve the
state's groundwater management? Water law expert Gwyn-Mohr Tully and
groundwater specialist Tim Parker share their thoughts with the Assembly Select
Committee on Regional Approaches to Addressing the State's Water Crisis at an
informational hearing held earlier this year titled 'The Science of Storing
Water.'
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Editorial Staff, Davis
Enterprise
State Sen. Lois Wolk is no
maverick, but her opposition to the state's twin tunnels water conveyance plan
for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and her competing legislation certainly
put her in maverick-like territory in the Democratic stronghold of the
California Legislature.
From: Graham Allen, Sacramento
Bee
Re "Wait to debate water
bond, and then improve it" (Editorials, Sept. 5): Placer County Water
Agency is extremely concerned about the redirected impacts of the state's Bay
Delta Conservation Plan on our region and so are members of Congress. On Aug.
30, seven members representing the region called on the governor to delay
releasing the BDCP, calling the project "flawed." The governor needs
to take this message seriously and consider the concerns of these federal
leaders as well as Northern California stakeholders.
From: Carolyn Sandie,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Battle set on island
habitat" (Page A1, Sept. 1): Gov. Jerry Brown's water diversionplan is
extremely ill advised, and chock full of problems.
Fisheries
From: Dennis Wyatt, Manteca
Bulletin
Delta sport fishing with its
flashy bass tournaments and purses as high as $100,000 is threatening water
supplies for South San Joaquin County farms and cities as well as elsewhere in
California.
"The California Department
of Fish and Game Commission goes to great lengths to protect it," South
San Joaquin Irrigation District General Manager Jeff Shields said of the sport
fishing industry.
From: Associated Press,
Sacramento Bee
Officials believe hot weather and
the lack of rain led to the death of hundreds of fish at a Central Coast lake.
From: Bob Moffitt, Capital
Public Radio
Harry Morse with the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife says the departments have contracts with dam
operators to hold cold water for spawning season.
"We hold for a critical
release period because we have salmon that are coming into the hatcheries at
both Nimbus and the Mokelumne Hatchery and they are really sensitive to
cooler-water pulses. And when that happens they shoot up river."
