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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>SAN JOAQUIN</span></font></b></st1:place><b><font size=4
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> RIVER RESTORATION:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Plan to restore river at risk; Water district demand
threatens renewal deal for the San Joaquin<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><b><font size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Fresno</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> Bee – 3/21/08<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>By Michael Doyle, Bee <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>
Bureau</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><st1:State w:st="on"><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>WASHINGTON</span></font></b></st1:State><b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>
-- The politically muscular Westlands Water District is threatening to torpedo
a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> restoration deal unless the
district gets its way on a separate and highly controversial irrigation
drainage plan. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The unexpected move means Westlands has raised its price for supporting
restoration of the river, long after negotiators thought the district was
already on board. The hardball tactic also further unsettles a deal that has
already endured considerable tumult. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Earlier this month, the Madera Irrigation District first voted to
withdraw from the river settlement and then several days later agreed to stick
with it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"We've had enough challenges moving the [river] legislation as it
is," Friant Water Users Authority general manager Ron Jacobsma said
Friday. "Having opposition doesn't help." <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>On Wednesday, Westlands General Manager Tom Birmingham advised key <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> water officials of the district's
new policy. Briefly put, Westlands wants the same contract concessions in an irrigation
drainage plan that Friant farmers are supposed to get as part of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> restoration. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The demand for equal treatment appears designed to pressure environmental
groups, which support the river restoration deal but remain skeptical about the
irrigation drainage plan. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"What's good for the goose is good for the gander," <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:place></st1:City> said Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The Westlands board president, Los Banos farmer Jean Sagouspe, warned in
a letter to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein that Westlands "would
withhold its agreement" from the river deal and "expect other"
water districts to do the same unless Westlands' irrigation drainage demands
were met. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"The linkage between the two is problematic, at least for us,"
Jacobsma said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The Westlands maneuver, for the first time, explicitly connects two
ambitious but distinct water-related projects. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The first is a proposal to restore water and salmon to the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> below Friant Dam. The Natural
Resources Defense Council and east-side farmers served by Friant irrigation
water negotiated the settlement to end a lawsuit filed in 1988. Congress has
not yet approved the necessary legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The second project addresses irrigation drainage problems afflicting the
Valley's west side. The federal Bureau of Reclamation is legally responsible,
because the government never built a promised drain. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"These are two significant environmental problems in the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType>,
and I think they certainly are related," <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:place></st1:City> said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Westlands has proposed that it assume responsibility for fixing the
drainage problem. In return, Westlands would pay off early $147 million for
construction of San Luis Reservoir and other facilities. That is significantly
less that the $270 million present value of what the water district owes the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
government. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Until now, the river restoration and irrigation drainage problems have
moved on separate tracks. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"The Friant settlement is not the Westlands drainage issue; nor, I
believe, should it be," Feinstein said Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"Each will either stand on its own merit or fall on its own
merit." <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>A $500 million river restoration bill authorizing levee repairs and other
work passed the House Natural Resources Committee last fall. A companion Senate
measure could move by April. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The irrigation drainage plan is still being drafted. The general
outlines, though, vex environmentalists. They worry about Westlands prepaying
the $147 million to the federal government, and the district seeking exemption
from tight acreage limits. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Current federal law limits farmers from receiving subsidized water rates
on more than 160 acres. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Friant farmers would enjoy similar provisions for acreage limits and loan
prepayment under the San Joaquin River restoration deal that environmentalists
support, Westlands notes pointedly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>"If [the provisions] are appropriate elements of a settlement of the
Friant litigation, they are appropriate elements of a settlement of the
drainage litigation," Sagouspe wrote. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Technically, Westlands does not have a vote in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
deal. Politically, a defection by the 600,000-acre Westlands district with its
coterie of Western political allies could prove problematic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Birmingham</span></font></b></st1:City><b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>
said Friday that he did not know whether Westlands' new position "will be
an impediment or not" to resolving the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
deal. He said Westlands simply wants the "same principles" applied to
the Valley's various water problems. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Jacobsma said Friday that "we're sorting through" Westlands'
new demand. Environmental attorney Hal Candee could not be reached to comment
Friday. </span></font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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font-style:italic'>Mill Valley</span></font></i></st1:City><i><font
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<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">94942-2327</st1:PostalCode></span></font></i></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-style:italic'>415 383 4810</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-style:italic'>415 519 4810 cell</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>bwl3@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</span></font>
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