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Monthly Archives: March 2009
A stroke of the pen
The president today signed the massive public lands bill passed by Congress last week, including authorization of the San Joaquin River settlement two decades in the making, and partial funding to restore flows and fish.
“This legislation guarantees that we will not take our forests, rivers, oceans, national parks, monuments and wilderness areas for granted,” Obama [...]
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Friday laugh
Saturday night from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. marks the annual Earth Hour, when environmentalists ask Americans to turn off the lights for one hour to “send a powerful message about the need to combat global warming” along with concerns about light pollution and the danger glowing skyscrapers pose to migratory birds.
Check it out here.
But this year, [...]
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New peripheral canal map
As promised, here is the latest revision of the peripheral canal map. Officials are leaning toward the eastern alignment, which you’ll see here cutting through Rindge Tract and crossing under the San Joaquin River west of Stockton.
The green blobs are areas where the state feels habitat restoration might be possible.
For more draft maps, click [...]
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A first glimpse
If you attended Tuesday’s peripheral canal meeting, you might’ve seen this artist’s rendering of what the beginning of the canal might look like — that is, the northern end which will draw water from the Sacramento River.
The main water body here is the Sacramento; the facility on the far bank is a pumping station [...]
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One signature away
Nearly 21/2 years after a legal settlement was reached to restore the San Joaquin River, Congress today approved implementation of the plan — and a relative trickle of funding — pending one presidential signature.
From the Natural Resources Defense Council:
WASHINGTON (March 25th, 2009) – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an omnibus public lands package, which includes a landmark [...]
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He said, she said
There were plenty of quotable moments at tonight’s peripheral canal meeting, and we didn’t have room for most of them in the paper.
Here’s a sampling:
• “It’d be cheaper to send the water south in trucks,” one woman groused after hearing about the canal’s estimated cost of $8 billion to $14 billion.
• “I think it (the [...]
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Fighting back
Stockton-based Restore the Delta placed this ad in the Sac Bee and the San Francisco Chronicle over the weekend:
In an email, RtD director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla said the group is “calling on our neighbors to help stop the Delta water grab.”
She said today that she’s gotten many email responses, including people who have no idea what’s [...]
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Smoking to be outlawed at parks?
Dunno how many smokers read this blog; if you know what PM2.5 is, you’re probably not a likely candidate to have a pack of Camels in your pocket.
Nevertheless, it’s interesting that a bill introduced by Southern California state Sen. Jenny Oropeza would ban smoking at state beaches and parks.
The bill, SB 4, is expected to [...]
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Thirst for news
Two wells of water news today. When is there a day WITHOUT water news?
• The feds upped allocations for south San Joaquin Valley farms, though folks on the westside are still looking dry. Read on from AP:
“FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Many farmers, cities and industries in California that buy water from the federal government can expect to get [...]
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Radanovich: Fish viewed as "worshipful gods" — UPDATE