Peripheral Canal is popping up again.

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If anyone is interested in taking a political stand on something that is so important to boating in the Delta please go to www.stopthecanal.org. Very interesting information. The peripheral canal in becoming a huge issue again.
 
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

For posting that link. I am hoping there will be an organized push against this idea. At worst case, we deltaphiles need to have strong input into the final solutions chosen. We northern Californians cannot just sit by and let the southern California-controlled water barons get their way!
 
I have a good friend (about 75 years old) who helped build the Mendota canal and many other projects. He is appalled that they are wanting most of our water.

I emailed them. My earlier post was rambling, but it was a result of having lunch with a young man visiting here. He just returned from Iraq and made the comments I listed. He was saying they would have already blown up the canal over there. (Not the USA, the AlQueda types), or put poison in it.

I had forgotten just how peaceful things are here. Imagine the havoc if we behaved like some countries.
 
FYI -- The San Joaquin Board of Supervisors this week voted its opposition to a canal by-passing the Delt. As to another dam on the SJ RiveraboveFriant -- wouldn't save water in the wet season now being lost? I agree that a peripheral canal would pull the plug on the Delta which is now on life support. Ibelieve we need all possible water storage, above and below ground, to catch runoff in the rainy season, especially in the heavy precipitation years. -- Warren
 
Dams are not what they appear to be. For instance, Lake Comanche, built on the Mokolnme River by EBMUD lets some water continue down to and through the delta, after EBMUD has pulled as much water as they need into a pipeline system which totally bypasses the delta! Watch out for dams! Not all the water they collect eventually continues downstream..........

Having another dam on the San Joaquin is a joke! That river has already been decimated.
 
At times, there is too much water. At other times there is too little. /// The question is --- What can be done to create a balance between scarcity and over-abundance? Are there ways to achieve this besides storing the water in times of over-abundance? What about flood control? Is there another way to provide that besides water storage? --- Warren
 
Just remember that shipping water is always the first priority even in drought years.

Arnold et al should be pushing conservation [especially in southern Cal] and funding desalination plants for southern Cal instead of stealing our water and letting it make deserts green and water run down the gutters the beach. Why is it that every time it rains in southern Cal, they experience flooded streets and rushing canals? Why are they not capturing THAT water for their use?????

I get so mad......now, my BP is up again!
 
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