This is a call to action to support the revised Bay Delta Plan
The Irrigation Districts are coming for your rivers!
In recent years, about 20% of the unimpaired flow has been left in the tributaries of the San Joaquin (San Joaquin, Merced, Tuolumne, Stanislaus). The Irrigation Districts, their farming customers, and the politicians who support them have taken to calling people like us who enjoy rivers “environmental extremists”, and any water left in the rivers is “wasted”. Salmon in the system are down from 400,000 historically to just a few thousand. Steelhead are barely detectible.
Now the State Water Board is saying that the rivers belong to all of us and that the ID’s don’t trump the Endangered Species Act. They are calling for an increase in flows to 50% of the unimpaired flows.
THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE TO REVIVE THESE PRECIOUS RIVERS!
PLEASE GET TO A MEETING:
• November 2 (Wednesday) and 10 (Thursday) - 9:00 a.m.
CalEPA Headquarters, 1001 I Street, Sacramento
• November 4 (Friday) - 9:00 a.m. Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L Street, Modesto
OR WRITE A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE REVISED PLAN:
Please address your letter as follows, and submit it by email, fax or standard mail. For emails, it's best to send your comments in pdf format.
Jeanine Townsend, Clerk of the Board
State Water Resources Control Board
1001 I Street, 24th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814-0100
Fax: (916) 341-5620
Email: commentletters@waterboards.ca.gov
There’s no end to the thirst of these ID’s. Just look at the bleak south Valley where the Kern, Kings, Kaweah, and San Joaquin all currently run dry and where the Tulare Lake once covered more area than any freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. If we don’t make a stand on the tributaries of the San Joaquin, the ID’s will be emboldened to increase their overuse to the North. Maybe to your home river.
Help kids growing up in Modesto, Turlock, Merced, and Fresno to experience healthy rivers full of salmon.
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