• "Say they do nothing to address the basic issues
• “It's a shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic"
The proposed slimming down of Gov. Jerry Brown's mammoth twin tunnels project, announced Thursday by the Department of Water Resources, does nothing to alter the fundamental flaws of the plan, says the environmental group Restore the Delta.
“It's a shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Steve Hopcraft, a spokesman for the group.
(Listen to a news conference in which Restore the Delta enumerates its concerns by clicking on the link at the end of this story.)
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, says the charges do nothing to offset with the overall Bay Delta Conservation Plan's announced 48 significant and unavoidable impacts that will impact Delta communities, fisheries, farms, and boaters.
"This is a failed attempt by Jerry Meral [deputy director of the state Natural Resources Agency] to show that he and the other architects of the BDCP are sensitive to delta communities," she says.
Melinda Terry, manager for the North Delta Water Agency who says she has attended most of the BDCP meetings, says the changes do not address the problems caused by ten years of construction involving thousands of workers on 24/7 operations.
“And they're going to have to вЂde-water' the area, which means all the homes and businesses that are on well water … won't have water," she says.
Osha Meserve, general council for LAND -- Local Agencies of the North Delta, a coalition of North Delta farmers – says the revised route for the governor's twin tunnels will adversely impact sand hill cranes, that migrate from the sub-arctic to the Lodi area every winter. The new plan calls for Staten Island to be used as a repository for huge piles of muck – tunnel boring waste.
She says Staten Island “is one of the most important, if not the most important, crane foraging roosting habitat areas."
The cranes have created a cottage industry for Lodi with thousands of bird watchers coming to the city for its annual Sand Hill Crane Festival as well as independent opportunities to spot the giant birds, which are as tall as the average adult human."
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/links/restore the delta presser.mp3
www.restorethedelta.org
• “It's a shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic"
The proposed slimming down of Gov. Jerry Brown's mammoth twin tunnels project, announced Thursday by the Department of Water Resources, does nothing to alter the fundamental flaws of the plan, says the environmental group Restore the Delta.
“It's a shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Steve Hopcraft, a spokesman for the group.
(Listen to a news conference in which Restore the Delta enumerates its concerns by clicking on the link at the end of this story.)
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, says the charges do nothing to offset with the overall Bay Delta Conservation Plan's announced 48 significant and unavoidable impacts that will impact Delta communities, fisheries, farms, and boaters.
"This is a failed attempt by Jerry Meral [deputy director of the state Natural Resources Agency] to show that he and the other architects of the BDCP are sensitive to delta communities," she says.
Melinda Terry, manager for the North Delta Water Agency who says she has attended most of the BDCP meetings, says the changes do not address the problems caused by ten years of construction involving thousands of workers on 24/7 operations.
“And they're going to have to вЂde-water' the area, which means all the homes and businesses that are on well water … won't have water," she says.
Osha Meserve, general council for LAND -- Local Agencies of the North Delta, a coalition of North Delta farmers – says the revised route for the governor's twin tunnels will adversely impact sand hill cranes, that migrate from the sub-arctic to the Lodi area every winter. The new plan calls for Staten Island to be used as a repository for huge piles of muck – tunnel boring waste.
She says Staten Island “is one of the most important, if not the most important, crane foraging roosting habitat areas."
The cranes have created a cottage industry for Lodi with thousands of bird watchers coming to the city for its annual Sand Hill Crane Festival as well as independent opportunities to spot the giant birds, which are as tall as the average adult human."
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/links/restore the delta presser.mp3
www.restorethedelta.org