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I posted this reply to the op ed:<br>
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float: none;">Silicon Valley needs a reliable water supply, but
BDCP may not be the answer.</span><br style="color: rgb(26, 26,
26); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial,
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<br style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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float: none;">We're currently seeing significant drying in the
Colorado River basin. No state would invest $25 billion in a
massive new diversion on the Colorado River, expecting to
increase the reliability of their water supply.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="color:
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<br style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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float: none;">Computer modelling by independent researchers
suggests that by the time BDCP is completed, we could see a
similar pattern of reduced runoff in the Sacramento River basin.
The result could be a series of extended droughts similar to the
dust bowl years of 1923-34.</span><br style="color: rgb(26, 26,
26); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
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<br style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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float: none;">DWR won't even release the projected deliveries
from BDCP under the drier climate change scenarios. But they
could be significantly less than those in the BDCP economic
analysis.</span><br style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family:
'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size:
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<br style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: 'lucida grande',
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float: none;">Planning for the water supply for 19 million
people demands real science, not "salad bowl" science that picks
and chooses the effects of climate change.</span><br>
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Deirdre Des Jardins<br>
California Water Research<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Friday/5/31/13 3:56 PM, Ara
Azhderian wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks
Moira,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Interesting.
And there was this OpEd in the San Jose Merc:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23363402/bay-delta-conservation-plan-system-tunnels-levee-reconstruction">http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23363402/bay-delta-conservation-plan-system-tunnels-levee-reconstruction</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#043A5E">Bay
Delta Conservation Plan: System of tunnels, levee
reconstruction best approach to protecting state, Silicon
Valley water supply<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#555555">By
Andy Ball<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#555555">Special
to the Mercury News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#848080">Posted:
05/31/2013 12:01:00 PM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000088">Updated:
05/31/2013 01:05:53 PM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Our
state water system is broken and needs to be fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">There
is no question that significant investments are needed to
address the scale of the challenge we face. The real issue
is what to do, particularly about the Sacramento-San Joaquin
River Delta, and how we pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
Delta supplies some 23 million Californians with water and
helps irrigate millions of acres of farmland. Its ecosystem
is in decline, its fisheries are collapsing and we know that
an earthquake could dissolve the 150-year-old network of
fragile levees, allowing saltwater from San Francisco Bay to
contaminate the water supply for much of the state. The
issue is important to Silicon Valley, since we rely on the
Delta to meet about half our water needs. Our reliance on
the Delta is something we have in common with Southern
California and the San Joaquin Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Solutions
have been mired in political stalemate for too long.
Republican and Democratic administrations here and in
Washington have been working together for seven years to
analyze the merits of various proposed solutions. With a
strong federal and state partnership and with strong
leadership from Gov. Jerry Brown in place, all we need is a
viable plan backed by robust data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thankfully,
we have one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
Bay Delta Conservation Plan has been developed through
extensive scientific and economic research and hundreds of
public meetings. It proposes to construct tunnels to channel
water under the <span style="background:white">
Delta, while at the same time restoring its ecology.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
scale of the plan is impressive, if only because the problem
is so big. Once completed, the tunnels would run under the
Delta for some 37 miles, transporting water through a
seismically active region. In addition, tens of thousands of
acres of tidal marsh and other habitat would be restored.
Environmentalists, economists, engineers and a host of
agencies have been working to address these coequal goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">State
Resources Secretary John Laird released the remaining
administrative draft chapters of the plan last week. Such an
ambitious plan is important because piecemeal approaches
like simply shoring up the Delta levees just won't work. As
the recently completed Delta Risk Management Study
concludes, upgrading the levees provides no reduction in the
seismic risk of failure and flooding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
Delta plan also won't guarantee access to more water at the
expense of the Delta's health. In fact, the amount of water
Silicon Valley and other parts of the state will receive
should not be much different from what is available today.
However, the proposed project will stabilize the Delta and
help guarantee supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">With
anything this big, there are aspects that deserve close
scrutiny and adjustment. Accordingly, the plan incorporates
changes that have been made in response to concerns. For
example, the size of the tunnels and the number of system
intakes has decreased 40 percent to help better support the
coequal goals. That is exactly how a deliberative process
should work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">As
currently outlined, the Delta plan will cost $24.5 billion
over 50 years. Water users would be responsible for the
larger cost of constructing the tunnels, while the public
would help pay to restore the ecosystem. While this is
considerable, we know that the cost of doing nothing would
be far higher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
members of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group support the
Delta plan process because we believe there is a strong
business case for the kind of economic and environmental
stability the plan would provide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.5pt;background:white"><b><i><span
style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Andy
Ball is president of Suffolk Construction's west region,
a member of the California Water Commission and a member
of the board of directors of the Silicon Valley
Leadership Group. He wrote this for this newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] Davis Enterprise on "Reps
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<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">SACRAMENTO
— Rep. John Garamendi and four of his House colleagues
on Thursday ripped the governor’s plan for building twin
tunnels to send water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta to Southern California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">They
said that the $24.54 billion project, called the Bay
Delta Conservation Plan, has ignored regional concerns
about the harm it could cause the environment and
agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Under
the plan, “the richest lands in this state become an
industrial zone of concrete, pumps, reservoirs, tunnels
— miles upon miles destroyed so that somebody can steal
that water and take it south,” said Garamendi, D-Walnut
Grove.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“If
there be a fight, then let it be this fight — let it be
about maintaining the extraordinary agriculture and
economic viability of Northern California,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The
project calls for two 40-foot-wide tunnels that would
run 35 miles from Clarksburg to existing state and
federal canals near Tracy. It also would restore habitat
on 100 square miles of farmland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Brown
contends that the state must act to protect the supply
of water for 23 million Californians and millions of
acres of farmland. An earthquake, a 100-year storm or
rising sea levels could be disastrous for the state, he
has said, with losses of $100 billion and 40,000 jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Richard
Stapler, spokesman for the California Natural Resources
Agency, said Thursday that state officials have been in
contact with congressional representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“We
appreciate their concern,” he said, “but keep in mind
that in the past year we’ve dramatically reduced the
size, from 15,000 to 9,000 cubic feet per second. We
continue to focus on ways to make the project more
efficient, both from a monetary standpoint and in the
impact to the local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Keep
in mind that this would also be one of the largest
habitat restoration plans ever put into place in the
U.S.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Garamendi
said the project “will not happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Let
me be very clear: Gov. Jerry Brown, you tried in 1982 to
ram a peripheral canal down the throats of Californians
and you lost (when voters rejected the Peripheral Canal
Act),” Garamendi said. “(If) you continue on this path,
you will lose this fight for a very simple reason: You
will lead to the destruction of the most important
estuarial system on the West Coast of the Western
Hemisphere.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Rep.
Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, noted that 9,000 cfs
amounted to three-quarters of the Sacramento River water
flowing past the city on Thursday. She called the plan
“a disaster for Northern California,” which would
receive “no benefits, only massive impacts.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Consider
that there will be 10 years of construction, 24 hours a
day; hundreds of excavated tunnel muck that will be
deposited above ground; loss of county transportation
route; impacts to drinking water and flood protection;
the enormous toll that it would take on the county’s air
quality,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Flanked
by local elected officials — including Yolo County
Supervisors Jim Provenza and Don Saylor of Davis and
Mike McGowan of West Sacramento; and Reps. Mike
Thompson, D-St. Helena; Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton; and
Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove — also voiced opposition to the
project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Under
this plan, the water contractors hold all the cards,”
Matsui said. “The state’s plan for the delta not only
left us out of the planning process but also the
governance process. A project in our own back yard ought
to have some representation from the people who have to
live with it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Garamendi
repeated his call for a “comprehensive” plan focused on
water conservation, recycling and storage, along with a
smaller Delta facility — rather than a project that
“simply steals water from the north and delivers it to
the south.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Southern
California water districts and Central Valley corporate
farms would pay $14.5 billion for tunnel construction,
$1.5 billion for their operation and $1 billion in
environmental mitigation costs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“No
way can they afford it,” Garamendi said. “The burden is
going to be on the taxpayers of California.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The
state and federal governments would pay for nearly $8
billion for habitat restoration and environmental
measures. That includes a water bond proposal approved
by the Legislature in 2010 that was postponed because of
the recession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">McNerney
said Brown had “hijacked” the planning process,
dismissing alternatives. He added that he believes the
courts ultimately will rule that the project does not
meet the standards of the federal Endangered Species Act
or Clean Water Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Having
spent $200 million over seven years on the plan, the
water contractors feel confident the plan will pass
muster in the courts, said Stapler, the state spokesman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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both from Davis, and Mark Pruner of Clarksburg, a
representative of North Delta Cares. Fred
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src="cid:part10.02030002.05010701@mbaysav.org" alt="Rep. John Garamendi,
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for the authors of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
at a news conference Wednesday morning in front of
the Tower Bridge in Sacramento. With him are Reps.
Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, obscured at left, and
Rep. Ami Bera, D-Rancho Cordova, second from
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