Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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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

Public Policy Institute of California
May 10, 2013 --- 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sheraton Grand Sacramento, Sacramento

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