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Monthly Archives: February 2010
‘They just think it’s too big’
Jonas Minton of the enviro group Planning and Conservation League told the audience at Monday’s UOP water forum that the state and water exporters should consider building one small tunnel, rather than two large ones, to convey water past the Delta.
The plan right now is to focus analysis on two tunnels, each capable of carrying 7,500 [...]
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Michael: Salmon job losses also inflated
University of the Pacific business forecasting prof Jeffrey Michael dropped an interesting bit of news at today’s water forum in Sacramento.
The news: Job loss estimates by the salmon fishing industry may be greatly exaggerated – as were earlier estimates for agriculture in the south San Joaquin Valley.
“Job loss exaggerations are now officially an epidemic in the water debate,” [...]
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We have a nomination…
AND EVEN MORE: How ’bout the Peripheral Cavern, Peripheral Cave or Peripheral Bore (for those who’ve had enough of this story involving a giant drill)? Or the Eeew Tube? Thanks to all who have contributed ideas. I have left you nameless, for fear that should your suggestion stick, you be will forever associated with this project. [...]
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Op-eds target Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein’s bid to get more water to south San Joaquin Valley farmers isn’t going over well with the state’s major newspapers.
The L.A. Times writes that Feinstein “fired a cannonball” through a delicate web of water compromise built by the state Legislature last November. “And it’s perverse to insert language in a jobs bill aimed at [...]
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Heading off layoffs
Delta College trustees tonight agreed to provide early retirement incentives to 56 employees in the hopes of averting “massive” layoffs later this year.
As soon as the vote was taken, a list was distributed with the following names:
CLASSIFIED
• Cecilia Alvarez, senior office assistant, English
• Jessie Antikoll, custodian
• Fauna Brewer, instructional support assistant, science and math
• Marie [...]
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Friday laugh
A colleague: “So, does this mean the peripheral canal is a pipe dream?”
Buh dum CHA!
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Twin tunnels for the Delta?
Lots of water news today and little time to post.
Basically, there are two Delta stories, one long-term and one short-term.
The long-term: The Bay Delta Conservation Plan steering committee has agreed to concentrate its focus in the coming months on building a tunnel or tunnels beneath the Delta, rather than the peripheral canal. This doesn’t mean [...]
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Death at the pumps, less water for southland
To follow up on today’s legal defeat for Delta water exporters, take a look at the number of smelt taken at the Delta export pumps near Tracy since the beginning of February.
Of the 20 fish taken at the federal pumps this month (the state pumps have not taken any smelt), 16 of the fish have been taken [...]
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Pumps on, pumps off. Pumps on, pumps off.
Four days after Judge Oliver Wanger issued an order allowing state and federal pumps to really start churning because salmon weren’t in danger, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided that Delta smelt are in danger, triggering a mandatory shutdown of one of five pumps at the federal plant.
The pumping shutdown will begin after 5 [...]
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