More Critical Questions about the Peripheral Canal
January 15, 2009 | Posted by Ann Hayden in Bay Delta, Water Supply
Ann Hayden is a Senior Water Resource Analyst at EDF.
Check out the Contra Costa Time's latest piece on the proposed peripheral canal.
Taugher raises a lot of the right questions, such as: What level of water diversions can the Delta sustain to help recover the ecosystem? How will the canal be governed and operated to ensure the conservation of the Delta? What is the right size of the canal?
These are the sort of fundamental issues that must be addressed before a canal can be approved—recalling Spreck's recent blog post: The Delta Smelt Export Reductions in Context.
While it's a long road ahead, I'm working with others to try to tackle some of these difficult questions through the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan process.
4 Responses
Comment from santolina
February 12th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Has anyone reported the following?
We know a lot of fisherman and this is what we are seeing:
Jellyfish, yep, you read it right, in October at Sherman Island and flounders being caught as far up the river as Walnut Grove…talk to the fishermen, they see this stuff all the time! And now a back door deal to reinstate the peripheral canal, a project we voted down already! This cannot happen..add to this the fact that seals live in the Delta now…ANY more water pulled out of the Delta will destroy it!!!!!
Comment from rbucich
February 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Hi Ann,
That link for the Contra Costa Times seems busted, there are several articles on the site regarding the peripheral canal however.
Good reading.
BTW – Jack says "hi"
Comment from adamc
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 am
Taugher is the best, but link doesn't work.
Comment from santolina
March 25th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Has anyone attended the BDCP meetings in Northern California of late??????
What is about to happen here is outrageous and it appears that no organization is taking seriously the threats to our Delta system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There will be NO MORE DELTA if the organizatins that have the money to fight in court do not get off thier behinds and take this to the Federal Courts!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO ONE IN WASHINGTON will respon to my questions, no one is listening to the fact that our fresh water system is going to be destroyed…and our elected officials are doing it to us again!!!!!!!!!!!
When the Contra Costa Times DOES NOT PRINT the same information as the Sacramento Bee, the information that Bethel Island residents are going to have a 10 foot diamter pipe rammed under the island, that our livelihoods out here are absolutely in jeopardy, my question is WHY????????
Are our supervisors censoring the news so that we don't know?????
Is ANYBODY listening out here in cyberland???????
The Bee has maps showing the pending destruciton yet the Times is not interested in reporting the real news????
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