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CSPA
Advisory
CSPA Action Alert 8.20.08
Tell the Assembly Special Committee to say, "NO" to the
proposed water bond
By Bill Jennings, Executive Director, CSPA
August 20, 2008. Over the next week, the California State Assembly will
be deciding whether or not to place a water bond calling for the design
of a peripheral canal on the November ballot.
CSPA is asking you to take special action on behalf of protecting the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Please call the members of the Assembly Special Water Committee (numbers
are below) to let them know that you oppose this proposed 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 the phone numbers and email addresses.
Thank you,
Bill Jennings, Executive Director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.
Lois Wolk - Chair Dem-8 (916) 319-2008
Assemblymember.wolk@assembly.ca.gov
Bill Maze - Vice Chair Rep-34 (916) 319-2034
Assemblymember.maze@assembly.ca.gov
Juan Arambula Dem-31 (916) 319-2031
Assemblymember.arambula@assembly.ca.gov
Mike Eng Dem-49 (916) 319-2049
Assemblymember.Eng@assembly.ca.gov
Mike Feuer Dem-42 (916) 319-2042
Assemblymember.Feuer@assembly.ca.gov
Bob Huff Rep-60 (916) 319-2060
Assemblymember.huff@assembly.ca.gov
Jared Huffman Dem-6 (916) 319-2006
Assemblymember.Huffman@assembly.ca.gov
Rick Keene Rep-3 (916) 319-2003
Assemblymember.keene@assembly.ca.gov
Paul Krekorian Dem-43 (916) 319-2043
Assemblymember.Krekorian@assembly.ca.gov
Doug La Malfa Rep-2 (916) 319-2002
Assemblymember.lamalfa@assembly.ca.gov
John Laird Dem-27 (916) 319-2027
Assemblymember.laird@assembly.ca.gov
Mary Salas Dem-79 (916) 319-2079
Assemblymember.Salas@assembly.ca.gov
Karen Bass -- Speaker of the Assembly Dem-47 (916) 319-2047 Assemblymember.Bass@assembly.ca.gov
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