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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">August 5, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Brown
Administration Releases Deceptive Economic Impact Report of Delta Export Scheme<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A report on the supposed boons of a
plan to build two huge tunnels to export Sacramento River and Trinity River
water to San Joaquin Valley corporate farms reneges on a Brown administration
pledge to provide a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis of the proposed
project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Instead, the study released today by University of California at
Berkeley professor David Sunding and the Brattle Group presents a limited and
misleading analysis of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), a massive water
conveyance project that will saddle urban ratepayers with more than $50 billion
in debt, imperil the Sacramento River watershed, and devastate the
Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay, collectively the largest
and most productive estuary on the west coast of the continental United States.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sunding’s report, funded by the California Department of
Water Resources, assumes that BDCP will increase water exports by approximately
1.3 million acre feet, while the Brown Administration and BDCP EIR/EIS
acknowledge that exports will remain at present levels even if the project goes
forward.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It fails to evaluate reasonable
and cost effective alternatives that would improve water supply security,
provide more jobs, create additional water supplies and restore the Delta.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It makes wildly optimistic assumptions of the
benefits of habitat restoration projects that fishery agency scientists observe
are of unknown and unproven value.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The report also ignores the waste and inequitable use of
California’s oversubscribed water resources, overstates the seismic risk to
existing water delivery infrastructure and bases its conclusions on inflated
population growth and water usage projections.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And it fails to meet the professional standards for economic
analyses set forth in: a) the 2013 update to the U.S. Water Resources Council’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Economic and Environmental Principles and
Guidelines for Water and Related land Resources Implementation Studies;</i> b) the
U.S.EPA’s 2010 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Guidelines for Preparing
Economic Analyses</i> and 2009 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Value of
Protection of Ecological Systems and Services</i> and c) DWR’s 2008 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Economic Analysis Guidebook.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Carolee Krieger, the executive director of the California
Water Impact Network (C-WIN), observes the report falls far short of a Brown
administration promise to provide a full, objective and transparent
cost/benefit analysis of the BDCP.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“This isn’t a complete analysis,” Krieger said.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“This is a whitewash.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It glosses over the profound fiscal burden
this boondoggle will impose on urban ratepayers south of the Delta, while
exaggerating the benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And it isn’t
fooling anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Even the primary
beneficiaries of the Twin Tunnels – the corporate farmers of the western San
Joaquin Valley and the big urban water districts of the South State – are
getting cold feet about this project.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Dr. Sunding’s report is a Hail Mary pass.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Further, the report ignores the threat the BDCP poses to
state aquifers, particularly those of the Sacramento Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The Twin Tunnels will transport subsidized water to the
western San Joaquin Valley from the Sacramento and Trinity Rivers, but it
doesn’t stop there,” said Barbara Vlamis, the executive director of
AquAlliance, an organization dedicated to protecting northern Sacramento Valley
watersheds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“The tunnels will also
accelerate the mining of the Tuscan Aquifer, which is crucial to the cities,
farms, fisheries and wildlife of the Sacramento Valley.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ultimately, Sunding’s report is nothing more than a rehash
of talking points the Brown administration has used to fast-track the BDCP past
much-needed fiscal scrutiny and environmental review.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is based on speculative guesses, in that
the BDCP has yet to identify project yield, operating guidelines, cost
apportionment, or the true parameters of the habitat restoration
component.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The administration could not allow Dr. Sunding to prepare
the comprehensive cost/benefit analysis<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>that was promised because such a study would reveal BDCP for what it is
– a scheme to perpetuate the wasteful and inefficient distribution of the
state’s water by publicly subsidizing special interests,” said Bill Jennings,
the executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Finally, the report does not identify alternatives to the
BDCP that could ameliorate California’s water crisis at a fraction of the cost
of the Twin Tunnels.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Water conservation, reclamation and recycling could create
millions of acre-feet of ‘new’ water, improve water security, provide more jobs
than the BDCP and restore the Delta,” said Jennings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“These alternatives would receive equal
weight in any true analysis and any intellectually honest economic analysis
would show that the costs of BDCP vastly outweigh any economic benefit to both
project proponents and statewide interests.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Draft Statewide Economic Impact Study can be found at:<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><a href="http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Libraries/Dynamic_Document_Library/Draft_BDCP_Statewide_Economic_Impact_Report_8-5-13.sflb.ashx"><span style="color:#0D00FF">http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Libraries/Dynamic_Document_Library/Draft_BDCP_Statewide_Economic_Impact_Report_8-5-13.sflb.ashx</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Contact information:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">Carolee Krieger, C-WIN 805-969-0824 cell 805-451-9565 <a href="http://www.c-win.org">http://www.c-win.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance 209-464-5067
cell 938-9053 <a href="http://www.calsport.org">www.calsport.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"MS Mincho";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA">Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance 530-895-9420 cell 530-519-7468 <a href="http://www.aqualliance.net">www.aqualliance.net</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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