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Community groups demand end to agricultural contamination of Central Valley, Delta (9/13)
Residents from throughout the Valley will be attending this important workshop and press conference in Clovis on Thursday, September 13, protecting their right to safe, clean, affordable drinking water in the Central Valley. Toxic chemicals discharged into agricultural waste water are also one of three major factors pinpointed by state and federal scientists for causing the current Pelagic Organism Decline (POD) on the California Delta. The other factors are massive increases in state and federal water exports and invasive species. Populations of delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass and threadfin shad have declined to record low levels in recent years as water exports have increased by over 1,000,000 acre feet per year.
Amy Vanderwarker
654 13th Street
Oakland CA 94612
510-286-8400
http://www.ejcw.org
Sponsored by: Californians for Pesticide Reform; Clean Water Action; Community Water Center; Environmental Justice for Water; Latino Issues Forum
MEDIA ADVISORY
September 11th, 2007
Susana De Anda, AGUA, 559-202-6658
Laurel Firestone, Community Water Center, 559-789-7245
Community groups demand end to agricultural contamination
Regional Board faces scrutiny as residents call for more drinking water protections
WHAT: A press conference exposing the agricultural industry’s free pass to pollute drinking water and agency failures to protect Central Valley residents.
WHO: Central Valley-wide residents who lack clean drinking water and community advocates
WHEN: Thursday, September 13th, 12:30 pm
WHERE: Outside City of Clovis Council Chambers, 1033 Fifth St., Clovis
The State Water Resource Control Board has ordered the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to host a public workshop examining the impacts of its’ Irrigated Lands Discharge program. The program allows farms to discharge toxic irrigation wastewater with no groundwater protection or monitoring requirements, and sets virtually no management requirements to protect waterways. Such a waiver is granted to no other comparable industry.
As a result, toxic drainage laden with pesticide components, nitrates from fertilizers, and salts seep into the Central Valley’s groundwater, contaminating the drinking water supply for over 90 percent of the Valley’s residents. Unsafe and illegal levels of contaminants in drinking water affected approximately 40,000 people in the Southern San Joaquin Valley alone, forcing residents to buy expensive bottled water or face serious health problems and the associated costs.
Residents and advocates will be hosting a press conference before the workshop to discuss the impacts they have suffered as a result of agricultural contamination. At the workshop, residents will demand that irrigators stop risking public health and passing the cost of pollution onto Central Valley communities. Advocates will be calling for a new program that creates meaningful protections for groundwater and stops giving agriculture the green light to pollute.
654 13th Street
Oakland CA 94612
510-286-8400
http://www.ejcw.org
Sponsored by: Californians for Pesticide Reform; Clean Water Action; Community Water Center; Environmental Justice for Water; Latino Issues Forum
MEDIA ADVISORY
September 11th, 2007
Susana De Anda, AGUA, 559-202-6658
Laurel Firestone, Community Water Center, 559-789-7245
Community groups demand end to agricultural contamination
Regional Board faces scrutiny as residents call for more drinking water protections
WHAT: A press conference exposing the agricultural industry’s free pass to pollute drinking water and agency failures to protect Central Valley residents.
WHO: Central Valley-wide residents who lack clean drinking water and community advocates
WHEN: Thursday, September 13th, 12:30 pm
WHERE: Outside City of Clovis Council Chambers, 1033 Fifth St., Clovis
The State Water Resource Control Board has ordered the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to host a public workshop examining the impacts of its’ Irrigated Lands Discharge program. The program allows farms to discharge toxic irrigation wastewater with no groundwater protection or monitoring requirements, and sets virtually no management requirements to protect waterways. Such a waiver is granted to no other comparable industry.
As a result, toxic drainage laden with pesticide components, nitrates from fertilizers, and salts seep into the Central Valley’s groundwater, contaminating the drinking water supply for over 90 percent of the Valley’s residents. Unsafe and illegal levels of contaminants in drinking water affected approximately 40,000 people in the Southern San Joaquin Valley alone, forcing residents to buy expensive bottled water or face serious health problems and the associated costs.
Residents and advocates will be hosting a press conference before the workshop to discuss the impacts they have suffered as a result of agricultural contamination. At the workshop, residents will demand that irrigators stop risking public health and passing the cost of pollution onto Central Valley communities. Advocates will be calling for a new program that creates meaningful protections for groundwater and stops giving agriculture the green light to pollute.
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