<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><div>Here is my response to the Bee piece:</div><div><br></div>Even though we're in a "drought," the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of Water Resources are pumping water south to corporate agribusiness and oil companies like it's the wettest water year on record. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Keswick Dam water releases to the Sacramento River are currently 14,250 cfs, Lake Oroville releases to the Feather River are 5500 cfs and Nimbus Dam releases to the American River are 3250 cfs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">If you drive over the Tower or Pioneer bridges on the Sacramento River, you can clearly see that the river is bank to bank, with water up to the trees. This pumping of water to benefit subsidized agribusiness interests is made possible through massive water transfers - and the violation of Delta water quality standards.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">After the water is drained from northern California reservoirs and shipped south to Stewart Resnick of Paramount Farms and other corporate water contractors, there will be little water left for salmon and steelhead spawning this fall and winter. Salmon, steelhead, family farmers, fishermen, Indian Tribes and northern California residents are being ripped off to benefit a few wealthy mega-growers, the corporate welfare kings and queens of the San Joaquin.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Governor Jerry Brown is planning to make things only worse by building the peripheral tunnels as a tainted "monument" to his "legacy."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">When will the people of California stand up and say enough is enough? </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Dan Bacher, Sacramento</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Read more here: <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/22/5584513/folsom-lake-american-river-levels.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/22/5584513/folsom-lake-american-river-levels.html#storylink=cpy</a></font></p><div><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>