Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Efrain Rojas, Merced
Sun-Star
The San Luis Reservoir is drying
up. Assuming the worst about global warming, we should prepare for greater
shortcomings by encouraging desalination for coast communities. Desalination is
a solution to our water needs and global warming.
Coalition response...San Luis Reservoir lost the potential of storing 800,000 acre-feet of
water earlier this year because of federal regulations. These regulations kept
the water in the Delta for fish species instead of allowing it to be rightfully
diverted to nearly 4,000 farms and 25 million Californians. Instead, this water
flowed to the ocean with no demonstrable benefit for the fish.
Looking for new water supplies is
always a good idea. Studies are underway on several projects---Upper Temperance
Flat on the San Joaquin River, Sites Reservoir in western Colusa County and
raising Shasta Dam---that would increase the water supply for California. It is
estimated that 120 desalination plants the size of the recently approved
Poseidon facility in San Diego would be required to meet the 6 MAF requirements
of the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. With 840
miles of California coastline, a desal plant would have to be placed every
seven miles and would still not connect to our current water distribution
system. Plans already underway, such as the above and the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan, would be much cheaper and more environmentally-friendly than
lining our coastline with desal plants.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Press Release, State
Water Contractors
The State Water Contractors
released a fact sheet today comparing two of the studies
being referenced to assess the costs and benefits of the Bay Delta Conservation
Plan (BDCP). UC Berkeley's David Sunding and University of the Pacific's Jeffrey Michael, have both testified before the
legislature and are regularly utilized as sources on this issue, but their
findings are drastically different.
From: Ryan Lillis, Sacramento
Bee
Sacramento city officials are
paying a high-powered political affairs firm $10,000 a month to communicate the
city's opposition to a plan to build two massive water diversion tunnels in the
Delta.
From: Zane Vorhes, Sacramento
Bee
Re "Capital steps up Delta
battle" (The Public Eye, Aug. 25): Thank god I live in the county. A city
that can't afford swimming pools, police officers and firefighters is spending
money on public relations, under no-bid contracts to oppose the Delta pipeline
project, although it does not affect its interests.
From: C.J. Jawahar, Sacramento
Bee
Re "Capital steps up Delta
battle" (The Public Eye, Aug. 25): I applaud Sacramento city officials for
spending $10,000 per month to communicate their opposition to the Delta tunnel
water sale plan
Water Bond
From: Seth Nidever, Hanford
Sentinel
As the state Legislature debates
spending billions on a water infrastructure bond, Kings County supervisors are
expected to weigh in Tuesday with demands that it include new dams.
Kings County's ag-based economy
is near crisis mode after two consecutive dry Sierra snowpacks. Calls for more
water storage have been amplified by environmental restrictions that prevent
more Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water from being pumped south.
Supervisors will consider passing
a resolution outlining the need for additional storage and calling for action.
Groundwater
From: David Sneed, SLO
Tribune
The State Water Resources Control
Board has sent a letter to San Luis Obispo County supervisors urging them to
adopt an emergency ordinance to protect the Paso Robles groundwater basin.
From: David Sneed, SLO Tribune
An estimated 375 wells have been
drilled in the North County during the past five years - with the deepest of
them in a swath east of Paso Robles where the aquifer levels have dropped the
most since 1997, according to a Tribune review of county well permit data.
Delta
From: Alex Breitler, Hispanic
Business
(This article was previously
printed in the Stockton Record.)
In the age of Google Earth and
GPS, century-old hand-drawn maps of the Delta would seem irrelevant.
Not so.
Meetings
From: Press Release, USBR
The Bureau of Reclamation in
partnership with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Water
Resources, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Water Board,
and the University of California, will be hosting a landowner and stakeholder
workshop focused on initial planning tasks to evaluate the feasibility of
reintroducing Chinook salmon into tributaries above Shasta Lake.
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