BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN
Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Coalition response...In a recent letter on California water issues, Roger Thibault misses
some key facts about water rights and the BDCP. Rights to use water for
beneficial purposes are issued by the State Water Resources Control Board. The
right to use that water isn't limited to those upon whose head it falls, as
Thibault believes. Public water agencies throughout the state helped pay for
the water projects that deliver the water used to grow food on farms, meet
domestic needs in homes and provide jobs for California businesses. Claiming
that those same water users want to "...take virtually the entire flow of
the Sacramento and pipe it around the Delta" is baseless as well. The
water diverted under the proposed BDCP will be limited by the actual day-by-day
conditions and flows of the river. When flows are high more water can be moved
through the tunnels. When it is low, less water will be moved...or none at all
under dry conditions. Find out more here: www.farmwater.org/exportthrottle.pdf.
Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Coalition response...The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its proposed tunnels are very
different than the 1982 peripheral canal. The capacity to transfer water
through the BDCP tunnels is only 9,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) while the
peripheral canal had a capacity of 21,800 cfs. Learn more about the differences
by reviewing the facts at www.farmwater.org/p-canalcomparison.pdf. It
is also important to understand that people in other parts of the state have
water rights and long-term contracts to a portion of water that originates in
Northern California. They are simply working on a plan that will reliably
deliver the water that they once received but that water is now constrained by
ineffective biological opinions that limit the delivery of the water. The BDCP
is about protecting existing water rights, fixing the Delta ecosystem, and
providing water to drive California's trillion-dollar economy.
BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN
Story
From Vacaville Reporter - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Letter
From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Story
From Central Valley Business Times - Monday, April 22,
2013
WATER SUPPLY
(The following article was
previously printed in the Contra Costa Times.)
Commentary
By Jerry Borwn & Thaddeus
Bettner
From Ag Alert - Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Blog
By Chris Austin
From Maven's Notebook - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
DELTA
Notice
Story
From ACWA - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
LEGISLATURE
Story
From ACWA - Tuesday, April 23, 2013
MEETINGS
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