Thank you for attending our meeting on March 1st. It ran a bit long, but the information presented was fantastic.
Please see our latest Press Release March 11, 2010 from STCDA – SAVE THE CALIFORNIA DELTA ALLIANCE (formerly SFBDF).
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Delta Residents told to Ready for Water War
Published March 2, 2010 Delta Dams/Gates , News and Events Leave a CommentCentral Valley Business Times Article:
- Residents of the Discovery Bay area of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta were warned Monday night that powerful, unnamed, forces from Southern California are waiting to spring a massive peripheral canal on them.
Such a canal would be bigger than the Panama Canal and would send fresh water around the Delta to pumps that would transfer it to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
Much of the Discovery Bay opposition keys in on what is dubbed the “Two Gates Project” that would construct dams in the Delta to divert the flow of water.
The project, which seemed to be on the fast track last fall, now seems stalled.
But leaders of the [Save the California Delta Alliance – formerly the] Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation say it’s merely a lull in a water war pitting Southern California interests against the landowners in the Delta.
“We’ve won some good battles, but we haven’t won the war yet,” says Mike Guzzardo, spokesman for the Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation. “It can change week by week. We just can’t let it go and assume we’ve won.”
Click here to see an interview with Mr. Guzzardo taped at Monday night’s SFBDF meeting in Discovery Bay.
California Delta Water Meeting – Monday March 1st 6:30pm
Published February 28, 2010 Delta Dams/Gates , News and Events 5 Comments| LOCAL ORGANIZATION TAKES ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT DISCOVERY BAY AND THE DELTA against the U.S. Department of Interior’s – Bureau of Reclamation “2 Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project” Hello SFBDF Members and Friends! |
BAY AND DELTA AREA RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS SHOULD ATTEND THIS MEETING!
Our members will be presenting an update on where we are today on the “2 Gates” issue plus enhancing everyone’s understanding of the bigger water issues that will be affecting us for years to come.
There will be special guest speakers including:
- Mary N. Piepho – Contra Costa County Supervisor
- Susanna Schlendorf – District Director for Assemblymember Joan Buchanan
- David Nesmith – Environmental Water Caucus
This special program is designed to give an overview of:
- A Brief History of the Bay and Delta.
- An Update on the 2 Gates project.
- An overview of major Delta water projects.
- Who’s taking water from the Delta, where are they taking it from and why?
- What contaminants are in our water, where are they coming from and what can we do about it?
- How do we provide water to those who need it and what measures can we take to conserve water?
- Why are we growing low value crops instead of growing more drought resistant crops that yield more and use less water?
- Water conveyance and storage.
- Our efforts to maintain the beauty and health of the Southern Delta and Discovery Bay.
- A surprise announcement about SFBDF you won’t want to miss.
We hope you can make this event, please feel free to pass this email on to anyone you know who may be interested.
“Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation (SFBDF) is a public interest organization committed to working with local, state, and federal government
to create a balanced plan that offers water for everyone and also makes the California Delta and San Francisco Bay a safe and healthy environment for all who live here.”
| Dave Dove, Chairman | 925.354.3800 ddove@sbcglobal.net |
| Karen Mann, Vice Chairman | 925.513.3231 x1 karen@mannappraisal.com |
| Mike Guzzardo, Media Relations | 925.864.5757 mike@94505.COM |
Please read the email below for the latest from Supervisor Piepho who is keeping a watchful eye on those that would ruin our delta.
From: BOS District3 [mailto:Supervisor_Piepho@bos.cccounty.us]
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:28 PM
Subject: Feinstein’s water meddling
For Your Information
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Courtesy of Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho, Contra Costa County, District III
Los Angeles Times Editorial
February 17, 2010
Feinstein’s water meddling
By attempting to divert water to a group of farmers in the west San Joaquin Valley, she risks upsetting a delicate compromise reached last year.
Cities, farmers, fishermen and environmentalists have been waging an exhausting tug of war over water for decades in California, but last fall something unusual happened. All those ropes being tugged by competing interests were woven into something new — a framework for settling conflicts approved under a package of bills by the Legislature. The agreement might have been a fragile web, but it was a historic one nonetheless. And then, last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) fired a cannonball through it.
Feinstein announced that she would attach a rider to an upcoming federal jobs bill that would boost water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to a vocal agribusiness community in the west San Joaquin Valley. Because these farmers were late to the game of acquiring water rights, they’re the first to get shorted when deliveries are cut, as they were last year because of drought conditions and court- ordered pumping restrictions aimed at restoring fish populations. West valley farmers only got about 10% of their allocations of federally subsidized water in 2009, and Feinstein’s rider would ensure they get closer to 40% this year and next.
Feinstein says she’s proposing the amendment because “people in California’s breadbasket face complete economic ruin without help.” Indeed, unemployment is running alarmingly high in some Central Valley communities. But then, they’ve long been beset by chronic unemployment. Moreover, a report by the University of the Pacific suggests that the vast majority of the region’s job losses have been in the construction industry, not agriculture. And it’s perverse to insert language in a jobs bill aimed at benefiting farmworkers without considering the impact on fishermen, whose industry has been devastated by heavy pumping of delta water. The delta is home to hundreds of species, including the increasingly threatened chinook salmon.
That’s only the beginning of what’s wrong with Feinstein’s amendment. If approved, it would create a legal morass around conflicts between federal and state endangered species protections. Worse yet, it would blow apart the trust built up among competing stakeholders during years of negotiations preceding last year’s water package. Her attempt to make an end run around this bipartisan process, at the behest of a powerful interest group, could destroy what limited progress has been made and end in years of litigation and acrimony.
Though the west valley’s farms are important to the state’s economy, they are located in a naturally arid landscape that’s unsuited to agriculture; moreover, runoff from the area contains heavy selenium deposits, which turned a local reservoir into a toxic waste dump. If cuts in water deliveries make it expensive to farm in such unsustainable places — well, maybe that’s as it should be. The region should only get its water allotment if managers deem there is enough surplus to allow it.
Feinstein says she’s still working on the language of her rider and is open to alternative suggestions. Here’s ours: Stop interfering with the state’s delicate water talks and withdraw this destructive amendment.
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Office of Supervisor Mary N. Piepho
Contra Costa County, District III
309 Diablo Road
Danville, California 94526
Ph: (925) 820-8683
Fax: (925) 820-6627
181 Sand Creek Road, Suite L
Brentwood, California 94513
Ph: (925) 240-7260
Fax: (925) 240-7261
email: dist3@bos.cccounty.us
SUPERVISORIAL STAFF:
Tomi Van de Brooke, Chief of Staff
Lea Castleberry, Deputy Chief of Staff
Marion Murphy, Scheduler/Office Operations
Karyn Cornell, East County Field Representative
Jennifer Quallick, South County Field Representative
A message for Sen. Feinstein – Don’t Drain the Delta !
Published February 20, 2010 Delta Dams/Gates Leave a Comment(Posted by Jan on behalf of Mike Guzzardo)
HELLO FRIENDS:
When you read this, remember I’m not a “cause guy” … just a Delta resident who is fed up with the nonsense and had to stand up with my fellow committee members and form SFBDF just 3 months ago.
What a wild ride it’s been so far.
We appreciate the support of YOU, and other delta residents who are also fed up. We continue to make a difference.
I know you’re as busy as I am (running a business and working on too many committees to remember…) BUT
Please take 5 minutes to view this video that Snugg Harbor Resort put together about the Delta entitled “Don’t Drain the Delta”.
THIS IS the message I would like everyone to see and hear about our wonderful Delta. Almost brings me to tears…
HOW ‘BOUT YOU DIANNE? (TEARS? EVIDENTLY NOT…)
Did you see the San Francisco Chronicle article last week?
U.S Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will try to remake the Endangered Species Act in her own image early next week to reve up the federal pumps in the San Francisco Bay Delta.
Federal Judge Oliver Wanger ordered the pumping diminished earlier this month to protect endangered fish, including Sacramento River salmon.
Feinstein reportedly intends to attach a pump-restarting rider to next week’s “must pass” Senate jobs bill.
CLICK HERE to read Dianne’s article in the Chronicle.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Burying this in a JOBS BILL? ? ? It ought to be illegal…
We can see how confused Water issues are getting (how misleading SOME politicians are making it). This San Francisco Chronicle article is scary because of the inaccurate facts linking farm issues only to water.
THIS editorial in the same paper CLICK HERE clarifies the myths.
The bottom line from the editorial responding to Feinstein’s SF Chronicle article:
Feinstein’s statement oozes compassion for the “tens of thousands of people unemployed” in the San Joaquin Valley. University studies show most unemployment in the San Joaquin Valley resulted from the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage housing construction boom, not the drought. About 8,500 jobs have been lost to the drought, and about 2,000 of those to fish protection at the delta pumps.
Meanwhile California has 23,000 workers idled by the two-year shutdown of salmon fishing — a $1.5 billion a year hit to the state’s economy.
I urge you to email Di Fi and let her know she’s WRONG!
..she’s WRONG to use PUBLIC money in promoting issues that support her friends…and she’s WRONG to betray her constituents by draining the delta – which in the end will hurt even her friends she’s working so hard to support.
Forward the link to the video too if you wish…
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How to . . . Contact Dianne Feinstein’s Washington, D.C. office
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501
Click here to email me. (DIANNE’S EMAIL)
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Thanks to Dave Dove for the Snugg Harbor link and his hundreds of hours of web surfing research on the OUR behalf.
See you all at our March 1st California Delta Water Meeting!
6:30pm Discovery Bay Elementary School Gym!
Sen. Feinstein’s Amendment to the Senate Jobs Bill
Published February 16, 2010 Legislature Leave a CommentRE: Sen. Feinstein’s Amendment to the Senate Jobs Bill that has stunned her constituents in the Delta
Just when we think we’re making progress on 2-Gates and getting better focus for the Delta and environment, Feb. 11, 2010 press reports that Sen. Feinstein is authoring an Amendment to the Senate Jobs Bill to suspend the Environmental Species Act (ESA) protections for Chinook salmon and mandate certain pumping regimes from the Delta.
The water export mandate is being done under the Senate Jobs Bill reportedly because of the jobs lost in the San Joaquin Delta. But we learned at the League of Women Voters Water Panel last month from Delta representatives and from the Farm Bureau that the job loss numbers are relatively small and a recent RestoreTheDelta.org report believes much more of the Central Valley job loss was caused more by the housing economy rather than lack of water and more jobs have been lost due to the salmon industry. Plus now is not the time to remove ESA protections. The reservoirs are currently in good shape – now’s not the time to kill our remaining salmon. Before we jump to take steps that will cause even more damage to the Delta already in crisis, such as those in this new Amendment, it seems we need to make sure those steps are needed.
Delta Water Meeting by Diablo Valley League of Women Voters – Saturday January 23rd
Published January 21, 2010 News and Events Leave a CommentHello SFBDF Members! We wanted to remind you about an important meeting Saturday.
The Diablo Valley League of Women Voters and the San Joaquin County League will co-sponsor a program on Our Delta Water. Panelists scheduled to participate are
* Mary N. Peipho, Contra Costa County Supervisor
* Dr. Gregory Gartrell, Assistant Manager of the Contra Costa Water District
* Susanna Schlendorf, 15th Assembly District Director for Joan Buchanan
* Kari Fisher, counsel for the Farm Bureau
* Karla Nemeth, Resources Agency liaison to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP)
* David Nesmith of the Environmental Water Caucus
* Dr. Lawrence Kolb, former Water Quality Control Board assistant director
The League announced in December: “The Diablo Valley League of Women Voters and the San Joaquin County League is happy to announce that Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary N. Piepho will be a panelist. Supervisor Piepho will bring an invaluable perspective on recent legislative events to this discussion of water issues in the Delta, and we are pleased that she is able to participate.”
Delta residents and their representatives will not want to miss this chance to advance the education effort by asking informed questions and providing informed answers about ongoing issues in the Delta, including the impacts of the new legislation.
9:30 am-1 pm
Antioch Historical Society Hall – 1500 W. 4th St. Antioch, CA.
http://www.sjc.ca.lwvnet.org/calendar.html
We strongly suggest you attend.
I will be in touch soon about a Major Discovery Bay Town meeting scheduled for March 1st 6:30pm at the Discovery Bay Elementary School Gym. We will have updates on the 2 Gates project and our efforts to maintain the beauty and health of the Southern Delta and Discovery Bay.
SFBDF HAS IMPACT AS OBAMA DELAYS “2 GATES” PROJECT
Published January 8, 2010 News and Events , Press Release Leave a CommentU.S. Department of Interior – Bureau of Reclamation “2 Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project” HAS BEEN DELAYED to review the science behind the study.
But don’t let down your guard…..they are just pausing to regroup. The 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project was developed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and they are pushing HARD to get this 2 gates project through.
Guess who provided the “science” behind the project… Southern California Water… can you say conflict of interest?
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Hello Friends and Happy New Year. We have received dozens of emails and calls in the last few weeks about the recent news stories.
The GOOD news is that we had an effect on the process but be sure that this is NOT over…
· Our meeting with Government Officials in December in Stockton was a great first step bringing residents together with local and federal government to discuss potential health and safety issues with the 2 gates project and work toward a solution that will benefit everyone. Thanks again to Supervisor Mary Piepho and her staff for setting the meeting up which was a first of its kind for SFBDF and allowed us to be a part of the process which is what we are all looking for.
· We are guardedly happy…but, if you have been reading the news carefully – you will note that a prominent UC Davis biologist states that gates WILL be needed in the delta (so it may be a matter of time)…we are developing proof, through research and reports, that the gates (in the Southern Delta and Discovery Bay)…could be disastrous. We know for sure the water flow will be increased to the Interior Valley and Southern California and we live very close to that “conveyance” so we need to remain vigilant in order to protect our health, safety and navigational rights.
Thank you ALL for your support and encouragement. With your help we submitted more than 2500 comment sheets within 4 – 6 weeks, developed a web site, have had quite a bit of press, have community signs, put together a community meeting of 400+ people, been meeting w/agencies and politicians…this has been amazing.
We need to continue to stay on top of ALL OF THE Federal and State water plans – as many of them could be harmful to our community.
We still need YOUR help as we raise funds for expert research, legal comments and briefs, and possible future litigation as we continue to push the Bureau to submit honest Environmental Impact Statements that look out for our community and the communities around us in the greater Delta Region instead of fast tracking projects without any study or discussion with our local residents.
We are looking to raise $140,000 and have raised more than $20,000 so far.
Please make your tax deductible donations on our website ( http://www.nodeltagates.com) using PayPal OR
make out a check payable to ” SFBDF”
Mail your checks to:
Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation 4112 Windward Ct. Discovery Bay, CA, 94505
“Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation (SFBDF) is a public interest organization committed to working with local, state, and federal government to create a balanced plan that offers water for everyone and also makes the California Delta and San Francisco Bay a safe and healthy environment for all who live here.”
DAVE DOVE – CHAIRMAN 925.354.3800 DDOVE@SBCGLOBAL.NET
KAREN MANN – VICE CHAIRMAN 925.513.3231 x1 KAREN@MANNAPPRAISAL.COM
MIKE GUZZARDO – MEDIA RELATIONS 925.864.5757 MIKE@94505.COM
Delta Fisheries in Decline – water quality to blame
Published January 8, 2010 News and Events 1 Comment2009 another bad year for Delta ecosystem
The latest survey of Delta fish populations shows another ominous dip.
Despite ramped-up regulations meant to protect Delta smelt, the imperiled fish that has come to symbolize the conflict between the Delta ecosystem and statewide water demands fell to a record low, beating out the previous year’s record low.
But the survey numbers, posted late Tuesday, show the problems are not restricted to Delta smelt, which some biologists believe are dangerously close to extinction.
Longfin smelt and young-of-the-year striped bass, a popular sport fish, both fell to their second-lowest measures ever. And the number of threadfin shad, a widely used baitfish, plunged last year.
“The Delta smelt numbers are disappointingly low but not too surprising considering dry year conditions,” said Peter Moyle, a UC Davis fisheries biologist and one of the leading experts on California’s fish.
Threadfin shad, he said, are plentiful upstream of the Delta. Their absence in the Delta reflects a shortage of food or other environmental problems in the Delta, but those fish should bounce back quickly once the underlying problem is solved, he said.
Delta smelt, however, are so few that they could have much more difficulty reproducing fast enough to recover their numbers, he said.
Government biologists said it was not surprising, given dry conditions, that the Delta smelt numbers have not rebounded in response to new federal regulations on water
deliveries. Those restrictions are meant only to prevent Delta pumps from driving the fish to extinction and are not, by themselves, designed to lead to a full recovery of the fish.
“The fact that the fish are not extinct might mean (the regulations are) doing their job,” said Marty Gingras, a supervising fisheries biologist at the California Department of Fish and Game.
Still, the low measures increase the likelihood of water supply disruptions this year, because they will trigger tougher limits on how many fish can be killed before regulators intervene at the Delta pumps, which siphon water into canals that feed farms and cities around the state.
Once a certain number of fish are killed at the pumps, water managers will have to ask federal biologists for direction.
“We would consult with them as to what actions would be necessary at that time,” said Victoria Poage, a fisheries biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency that wrote the rules after its old regulations were nullified in 2007 by a federal judge who found them inadequate.
Since 1967, state biologists have trawled for fish from September to December to measure the health of a half-dozen Delta fish species. The numbers show that since about the time the big Delta pumps started running, the numbers for all those fish have fallen dramatically.
The index used to measure Delta smelt numbers was typically in the hundreds and occasionally reached over 1,000. Now it’s at 17. For longfin smelt, the index regularly reached over 10,000 and now sits at 65. For striped bass, the number was well into the thousands 40 years ago and now is at 70.
Still, experts say the problems are not limited to Delta pumping.
The Contra Costa Water District, for example, has found a strong connection between Delta smelt numbers and the saltiness of Delta water during the fall months. The connection points to the possibility that salt-tolerant clams that have moved into the Delta are filtering out food that small fish need.
Among the factors contributing to the increased fall salinity is the way state and federal water managers operate upstream dams and Delta pumps, which has resulted in less fresh water flowing through the Delta in the fall.
Discharges into water upstream of the Delta, particularly from Sacramento’s large sewer treatment plant, are also being considered as possible culprits.
Mike Taugher covers the environment. Contact him at 925-943-8257.
Obama Administration releases Delta plan
Published December 23, 2009 News and Events , Press Release 1 CommentObama Administration releases Delta plan
By Mike Taugher Contra Costa Times
Posted: 12/22/2009 04:41:22 PM PST
Updated: 12/22/2009 05:07:05 PM PST
In response to California’s water crisis, the Obama administration says it will delay a plan to install gates in Delta channels meant to increase water supplies but push forward with a plan to build a new fish hatchery in Rio Vista to keep alive fish populations at risk of extinction.
The administration’s 23-page interim plan, released Tuesday, pledges better cooperation between the state and federal governments. It lays out a number of projects that it says will help ease the conflict between the need for water supplies statewide and the declining Delta environment until a more permanent solution is found.
Among the proposals:
Build a connector to link state and federal canals south of Tracy to facilitate water sales and increase flexibility in water deliveries.
Delay plans to build the “Two Gates” project that some water agencies were hoping would increase water deliveries this year. Instead, the administration said that further studies will be done to see if the project will work and whether it will be cost effective.
Intensify the investigation and response to industrial pollution, pesticides, sewer discharges and other environmental threats to the Delta to determine how they are contributing to the environmental crisis.
Install protective fish screens in several key spots, including a $30 million screen at the Contra Costa Water District’s Rock Slough intake, where the district now gets about 20 percent of its water.
Sequester carbon and restore wetlands habitat in key areas of the watershed.
Several of the measures were suggested by the Contra Costa Water District three years ago, but most were never implemented, said Greg Gartrell, the district’s assistant general manager.
“The long-term (solution) is going to take a long time, so you have to do these immediate actions or you’re going to end up in a bad place,” he said. “That’s where we ended up.”
The fish hatchery for Delta smelt and possibly other imperiled fish is planned in Rio Vista, where the city owns former Army base property that might be used for the purpose.
The site would be used to produce fish for research and maintain stocks of species in case they go extinct or are further threatened.
Among the fish species that might be raised there are Delta smelt, longfin smelt, Sacramento splittail, green sturgeon and others.
“We want the ability to expand to produce large numbers of fish should it become necessary to supplement the wild population,” said Bob Clarke, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s regional acting fisheries program manager.
Water users in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California and their congressional allies were pushing for the “Two Gates” project this year. The idea was to submerge gates that can be opened and closed in the Delta to control the turbidity in the water.
Delta smelt are thought to stay in murkier water, and if the gates could keep the water near Delta pumps clear, water agencies thought they could get more water out without killing nearby fish.
“One way or another, we will be putting in gates in the Delta, not just to manage turbidity, but over the long run to manage flows, water quality and, I suspect, as a hedge against future island failures and sea level rise,” said Jeff Mount, a UC Davis geologist. “But it looks like Interior has made the decision to wait until the science that’s behind the smelt-turbidity hypothesis is better formed.”
NEWS RELEASE
Contra Costa County
MARY NEJEDLY PIEPHO
Board Supervisors, District III
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009
For more information contact:
Tomi Van de Brooke – Chief of Staff
Office of Supervisor Mary Piepho
Phone: 925-820-8683
Cell: 925-457-6260
Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho
Discovery Bay Community Leaders and County Officials
Meet with Congressman McNerney
Groups Pleads for More Thorough look at 2-Gates Project
Brentwood, CA – Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho brought a delegation of Discovery Bay community leaders and county officials to Stockton and met with Congressman McNerney today to express grave concerns with the 2-Gates project currently being considered by the U.S. Department of the Interior – Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers.
“I appreciate that Congressman McNerney took the time and brought in the two federal agencies to hear first hand our reservations about the 2-Gates project and potential impacts that had been largely ignored or gone unanswered by state agencies,” stated Supervisor Mary Nejedly. “The federal agencies assured us that the 2-Gates project would get a more thorough review and questions would be answered before the project moved forward,” She added.
Working with Supervisor Piepho, the group sought the meeting because they felt there had been little opportunity to bring the local perspective to the project design and development. They expressed concern that the project is focused on a predetermined outcome and is not stepping back to see the bigger picture including serious degradation of the Delta estuary.
“I was proud to see a number of local groups come together to elevate the issue and work together to affect change,” commented Mike Guzzardo, a local realtor and representative of the Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation. “The system worked as it should and it appears we were heard,” added Guzzardo.
The group’s concerns included agency oversight, public safety, water quality, and boating impediments. The agencies listened and acknowledged that the cost and the scientific underpinnings of the project may warrant additional evaluation.
Attendees included Discovery Bay Community Services District Director, Kevin Graves, Commissioner Lenora Clark with the California Department of Boating and Waterways, Discovery Bay resident Jan McCleery, Mike Guzzardo and Dave Dove representing the Save the San Francisco Bay and Delta Foundation, and County staff.
The 2-Gates project proposes to mount gates on a submerged cargo barge in the Old River area of the Delta. The project’s stated purpose is to determine if Delta Smelt can be prevented from being sucked into the pumps that send water to points south. The applicant and proponents of the project include Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the San Luis and Delta Mendota Water Authority. The State of California has already waived the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements for the project and is proposing to spend $44 million on the five year research project.
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Office of Supervisor Mary N. Piepho
Contra Costa County, District III
309 Diablo Road
Danville, California 94526
Ph: (925) 820-8683
Fax: (925) 820-6627
181 Sand Creek Road, Suite L
Brentwood, California 94513
Ph: (925) 240-7260
Fax: (925) 240-7261
email: dist3@bos.cccounty.us
SUPERVISORIAL STAFF:
Tomi Van de Brooke, Chief of Staff
Lea Castleberry, Deputy Chief of Staff
Marion Murphy, Scheduler/Office Operations
Karyn Cornell, East County Field Representative
Jennifer Quallick, South County Field Representative
Save the California Delta Alliance (STCDA) 