Bay Delta Conservation Plan
Changes to Delta Plan
From: Patterson Irrigator Staff, Patterson Irrigator
The State Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved 14 regulations to help implement the Delta Plan on Sept. 1 this year, according to a news release from the Delta Stewardship Council. The Council adopted the Delta Plan on May 16, and submitted the rules for review shortly after for public consideration.
Coalition response...
Supervisor Jim DeMartini needs to look a little
closer at the benefits of the planned
tunnels associated with the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. His own supervisorial district
is one of the hardest hit areas suffering from an 80 percent water supply cut
this year and possibly a zero percent allocation next year. Farmers can’t grow
crops without a reliable supply of water and they can’t hire employees or buy
goods and services they use in their farming operations.
The tunnels would improve water supply
reliability to almost 4,000 farms from Patterson to Bakersfield as well as
two-thirds of California’s residents. It is a comprehensive plan that will
create 110,000 new jobs, protect over a million jobs during the 50-year life of
the permit and generate $84 billion in statewide economic activity. The project
provides significant economic benefits to farms and businesses in the Patterson
area and throughout California and deserves fair consideration from our elected
leaders.
Bay Delta Conservation Plan
Water, the Delta and prosperity
From: Jerry Meral, Manteca Bulletin
The latest comprehensive economic analysis of the governor's plan for fixing the state's aging water system and restoring the environmental health of the Delta estimates that the project will yield roughly $5 billion in net benefits for California residents and preserve more than a million additional jobs over the next 50 years.
Many of those jobs will be in San Joaquin County and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Groundwater
Growers aim to protect groundwater
From: D.L. Taylor, The Californian
A Tuesday night presentation on one of the three key desalination projects moving forward on the Monterey Peninsula highlights what all the proposals' proponents understand: They must pass muster with agriculture concerns in the Salinas Valley.
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