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CSPA Action Alert: Tell the Assembly to say 'No" to the Water Bond!
Please call the members of the Assembly Special Water Committee to let them know that oppose the water bond proposed by "Duo of Delta Destruction," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein. The $9.3 billion water bond will provide for the design and construction of the peripheral canal and the Temperance Flat and Sites reservoirs. If passed by the Legislature, the water bond would pound the final nail into the coffin of the Central Valley salmon fishery and Delta fish populations. We must stop the canal from being built under pressure from Schwarzenegger, Feinstein and the state water contractors, just like the voters defeated it in 1982.
Here is the latest urgent action alert from Bill Jennings of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. "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," said Jennings.
Here is the latest urgent action alert from Bill Jennings of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. "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," said Jennings.
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 [at] assembly.ca.gov
Bill Maze - Vice Chair Rep-34 (916) 319-2034
Assemblymember.maze [at] assembly.ca.gov
Juan Arambula Dem-31 (916) 319-2031
Assemblymember.arambula [at] assembly.ca.gov
Mike Eng Dem-49 (916) 319-2049
Assemblymember.Eng [at] asm.ca.gov
Mike Feuer Dem-42 (916) 319-2042
Assemblymember.Feuer [at] assembly.ca.gov
Bob Huff Rep-60 (916) 319-2060
Assemblymember.huff [at] assembly.ca.gov
Jared Huffman Dem-6 (916) 319-2006
Assemblymember.Huffman [at] assembly.ca.gov
Rick Keene Rep-3 (916) 319-2003
Assemblymember.keene [at] assembly.ca.gov
Paul Krekorian Dem-43 (916) 319-2043
Assemblymember.Krekorian [at] assembly.ca.gov
Doug La Malfa Rep-2 (916) 319-2002
Assemblymember.lamalfa [at] assembly.ca.gov
John Laird Dem-27 (916) 319-2027
Assemblymember.laird [at] assembly.ca.gov
Mary Salas Dem-79 (916) 319-2079
Assemblymember.Salas [at] assembly.ca.gov
Karen Bass -- Speaker of the Assembly Dem-47 (916) 319-2047 Assemblymember.Bass.@assembly.ca.gov
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 [at] assembly.ca.gov
Bill Maze - Vice Chair Rep-34 (916) 319-2034
Assemblymember.maze [at] assembly.ca.gov
Juan Arambula Dem-31 (916) 319-2031
Assemblymember.arambula [at] assembly.ca.gov
Mike Eng Dem-49 (916) 319-2049
Assemblymember.Eng [at] asm.ca.gov
Mike Feuer Dem-42 (916) 319-2042
Assemblymember.Feuer [at] assembly.ca.gov
Bob Huff Rep-60 (916) 319-2060
Assemblymember.huff [at] assembly.ca.gov
Jared Huffman Dem-6 (916) 319-2006
Assemblymember.Huffman [at] assembly.ca.gov
Rick Keene Rep-3 (916) 319-2003
Assemblymember.keene [at] assembly.ca.gov
Paul Krekorian Dem-43 (916) 319-2043
Assemblymember.Krekorian [at] assembly.ca.gov
Doug La Malfa Rep-2 (916) 319-2002
Assemblymember.lamalfa [at] assembly.ca.gov
John Laird Dem-27 (916) 319-2027
Assemblymember.laird [at] assembly.ca.gov
Mary Salas Dem-79 (916) 319-2079
Assemblymember.Salas [at] assembly.ca.gov
Karen Bass -- Speaker of the Assembly Dem-47 (916) 319-2047 Assemblymember.Bass.@assembly.ca.gov
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