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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Crowd
unleashes flood of comments at peripheral canal meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stockton
Record – 3/25/09<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=by><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>By </span></b></span><span class=byline1><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'><a
href="javascript:NewWindow(500,550,'/apps/pbcs.dll/personalia?ID=999',0)"
title="See Profile"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Alex
Breitler</span></a></span></span><span class=byline1><span style='font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>STOCKTON
- Same issue, same building, different decade.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>About
120 people gathered Tuesday night at the Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium for
a chance to vent to the powers that be over plans to build a peripheral canal.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Fifteen
years ago, some of the same folks met in the same auditorium as part of the
CALFED process, which was supposed to fix the ailing Delta but today is viewed
by many as a failure.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>On
Tuesday, state officials displayed new maps showing a proposed canal taking
water from the Sacramento River and shipping it down the east side of the
Delta, tunneling under the San Joaquin River at Rindge Tract, west of Stockton,
on its way to the massive pumps near Tracy, and from there to the Bay Area and
Southern California.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>"Didn't
most of that land use to be desert anyway?" asked 25-year-old Blake
Joaquin, a wakeboarder. "Why should we give them our water? I don't
understand."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The
meeting was one in a series hosted by state officials and water users as part
of the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, which would basically give water users
continued authority to divert water from the Delta. The plan includes restoring
habitat and funneling water around, rather than through, the heart of the
estuary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>"It's
an effort that impacts all of us, you in particular," California Secretary
of Resources Mike Chrisman told the largely unhappy audience before fielding
questions and pointed comments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Dante
Nomellini Jr., representing Delta farmers, asked state Department of Water
Resources Deputy Director Jerry Johns what assurance he would give that only
surplus water would be diverted into the canal, even during a drought. "We
are a system of laws," Johns said, at which the crowd laughed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker, JcT</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends
of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>PO Box 2327</span></i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Mill Valley, CA
94942-2327</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>415 383 4810
land</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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cell</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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href="mailto:bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org"><span style='color:blue'>bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</span></a>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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