Delta
Letter
By Mark Borba
From Stockton Record - Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012
(The following letter was written
in response to Mark Borba's letter, above.)
Letter
By Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla
From Stockton Record - Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Coalition response...What is so wrong with growing crops for exports? This practice provides
a food supply that is distributed to American consumers as well as to
international markets. The export trade of California farm products plays a
valuable role in the balance of trade for our State. It also provides jobs on
and off the farm, including truck drivers, dock workers and more. Most ag
producing areas of our State, including the Delta, send a portion of their
products to overseas markets. The "poor soils" the writer refers to
produce some of the most abundant crops in California. Farmers manage their
water supply with some of the most efficient irrigation practices to produce
affordable and healthy food for consumers. These practices result in a regional
specialization that is not only economically efficient but environmentally
efficient. They also allow farmers to invest in improved growing technologies
and techniques that minimize environmental impacts while maximizing human
benefits.
Opinion
By Victor Gonella
From Eureka Times-Standard - Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012
Coalition response...This opinion article is written opposite of the facts. The Trinity River
ROD (Record of Decision) was adopted in December 2000 and requires an annual
release of water between 369,000 acre-feet and 815,000 acre-feet for fish in
the river. Water is sent to the Sacramento River watershed each year only after
Interior ensures there will be enough water to make the fishery releases
to the Trinity River required by the ROD.
Far from reducing the salmon
flows required by the Trinity ROD, Interior is going in the opposite
direction by releasing even more flows to the Trinity River for salmon than it
is supposed to under the ROD. This August and September, Reclamation
released more water than is provided for under the ROD in an effort to improve
conditions in the Lower Klamath. The Siskiyou Board of Supervisors, among
others, objected to those increased releases based on concerns
about the unexamined environmental consequences of unnaturally high flows
this time of year, including concerns that the releases could trigger
premature upstream migration before upstream water temperatures have
sufficiently cooled.
Claiming that water users
"have their eye on the Trinity River" to increase their deliveries is
far from the truth. It ignores the regulations that govern these deliveries and
the reality of how much water is being dedicated for fish purposes. Such claims
only serve to heighten the rhetoric aimed at the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
that is directed to restore the ecosystem of the Delta and establish a reliable
water supply.
DELTA
Story
From Lodi News-Sentinel - Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012
FISHERIES
Press release
From DWR - Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012
