CSPA Advisory

CSPA Action Alert 8.14.08

CSPA is asking you to take special action on behalf of protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Please call today your local Assembly Representative, State Senator, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Senator Diane Feinstein and tell them:

I am against the proposed water bond for the following reasons:

1) The peripheral canal will exacerbate California’s present water crisis and make meaningful and successful solutions more difficult.

2) There are bond funds left from previous to begin doing the work needed to protect Delta levees.

3) No bonds should be approved until the Department of Water Resources answers the three questions it has consistently refused to answer: a) How much water does the estuary require to maintain ecosystem integrity? b) How much surplus water is available for export? c) What interim or emergency measures are necessary to avoid catastrophic fisheries collapse?

4) A peripheral canal and diversion of fresh water around the Delta will turn the estuary into a toxic cesspool and forever prevent the restoration of the Delta's pelagic and salmonid fisheries.

5) A peripheral canal will sacrifice a 2 billion dollar Delta agricultural economy in order to support a billion dollars of Westlands agriculture that, by the nature of irrigating selenium laced soils, discharges millions of pounds of salts and massive quantities of toxic selenium back into the San Joaquin River.

6) We want a water bond that would provide funding to tap into California’s annual 7 million acre-foot virtual river of water conservation and efficiency, desalination, water recycling and conjunctive use programs. This will provide far more “new” water at less cost than dams and a peripheral canal.

Please call today. Below are phone numbers for Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator Feinstein's offices.

Thank you, Bill Jennings
Executive Director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: 916-445-2841

Link to Governor Schwarzenegger's Form Fill E-mail Page.

Senator Diane Feinstein San Francisco One Post Street, Suite 2450 San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 393-0707 Fax: (415) 393-0710

Los Angeles 11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: (310) 914-7300 Fax: (310) 914-7318

San Diego 750 B Street, Suite 1030 San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: (619) 231-9712 Fax: (619) 231-1108