The contested Bay Delta Conservation Plan is not economically justified, according to an independent cost-benefit analysis of the proposed project by the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
The centerpiece of the plan is to build twin tunnels running underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to pull water from the Sacramento River and send it to residents and farmers in Southern California.
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Ron Werner posted at 5:23 pm on Tue, Jul 17, 2012.
Mike: The solution to the storage problem you mention is called a reservoir. I think it means reserve. If used in a sentence it would go something like this. Lets build more reserviors to hold water in reserve during wet years to use during dry years. Lets try it your way - Lets build more tunnels to hold water during wet years to use during dry years - IT JUST DOESN"T MAKE SENSE!
Mike Wade posted at 10:27 am on Tue, Jul 17, 2012.
What happens if nothing is done to secure a reliable supply of water through the Delta and an improved ecosystem for the estuary? A portion of the water that flows through the Delta reaches 25 million Californians to support their homes and businesses. Farmers use water that flows through the Delta to grow a safe and affordable supply of food, reducing our reliance on food imported from other countries.
California only has a half-year of water storage available and that supply quickly becomes stretched during years of drought. This year is a good example. Not much rain and snow has fallen to replenish our supplies. As a result, much of the carryover supply from last year has already been allocated and farmers are only receiving 40 and 65 percent of their water supply from State and federal sources.
California's future water supply will continue to be unreliable if current efforts by the BDCP and the Delta Stewardship Council do not move forward. Those efforts support the 2009 legislative mandate of co-equal goals for both a reliable water supply and an improved ecosystem in the Delta.
Mike Wade
California Farm Water Coalition
Bruce Rubly posted at 8:53 am on Tue, Jul 17, 2012.
They forgot some important things...the fish. There is no report of how much money saving the fish will bring in to the Delta , or what about the ocean fisheries, decimated by the lack of water. Tourism in the Delta is a multimillion dollar business,
How come that wasn't included.
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Kim Parigoris posted at 3:58 am on Tue, Jul 17, 2012.
Not to mention the fact that allegedly it has the strong potential to turn the Delta in to a salt marsh...