<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>This is a response from the State Water Contractors to the article about Folsom Lake reaching dead pool.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Model runs are one thing, actual operations are another. If you remove the handcuffs on Delta exports, of course it's going to drain the northern reservoirs. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Tom Stokely<br>Water Policy Analyst/Media
Contact<br>California Water Impact Network<br>V/FAX 530-926-9727<br>Cell 530-524-0315<br>tstokely@att.net<br>http://www.c-win.org<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">http://www.swc.org/in-the-news/delta-doozy<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><h1 class="componentheading" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 36px/36px LexiaBold, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Delta Doozy<br></h1><div class="blog" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><div class="contentdescription" style="padding-bottom: 10px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(178, 178, 178); "><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; ">Discussions about the future of California water and of the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan (BDCP) have too often become a fact-free discourse that is not advancing an informed discussion. The State Water Contractors’ “Delta Doozy” series was launched in order to distinguish the facts from the fiction and promote constructive dialogue. </div></div><div class="article_row" style="display: block; width: 620px; "><div class="article_column column1 cols1" style="display: block; width: 620px; "><h2 class="contentheading" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: block; ">Delta Doozy: BDCP Will Put Folsom Lake In Jeopardy</h2><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0px; ">November 1, 2013</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">The following comes from <a href="http://www.protectourfolsomwater.com/" style="color: rgb(34, 106, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">www.protectourfolsomwater.com</a>, a web site from the San Juan Water District and the City of Roseville. The below statement is in regards to Folsom Lake in Sacramento County, a Bureau of Reclamation Facility that provides water supplies and flood protection for the region and water supplies to Silicon Valley and San Joaquin Valley agriculture:</div><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 40px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(255, 197, 12); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom:
10px; padding-left: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“…There are some who want to greatly reduce the amount of water in the lake to benefit other parts of the state. The state’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan puts our future Folsom Lake water supplies in jeopardy.”</div></blockquote><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif
normal'; ">Some Facts for the Record:</strong> The State of California has done extensive modeling of the BDCP’s proposed operations, including an analysis of the performance of upstream reservoirs such as Folsom Lake. State laws and policies require that BDCP’s environmental analysis also include the potential impacts of future climate change. The results show that BDCP actions do <strong style="font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; ">NOT</strong> have any material effect on future upstream reservoir levels. However, the analysis does show that potential changes in climate would have an effect on upstream reservoir levels. That is a concern for us all, but to suggest that BDCP is putting Folsom Lake in jeopardy is simply not true. </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; ">The BDCP website contains more information on this issue in the <a href="http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/AboutBDCP/YourQuestionsAnswered.aspx" style="color: rgb(34, 106, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">“Your Questions Answered”</a>section, including a dedicated post on BDCP’s impacts on upstream reservoirs. </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "><em style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; font-style: italic; ">View the Doozy <a href="http://www.protectourfolsomwater.com/" style="color: rgb(34, 106, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">here</a>. </em></div><div><em style="font: normal normal normal 14px/22px Arial, Helvetica, 'sans-serif normal'; font-style: italic;
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