BayTrawlerGuy
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/10/BAGC5GKON81.DTL
Another article on Delta levees with much we've all seen before (including the earthquake horror stories) but with a couple of new tidbits:
1. A SoCal dairy farmer named Heuvel says SoCal should shift its focus to desalinization and other water sources (good news) by using the monies otherwise headed for delta levees (bad news).
2. The article says 100 acre privately owned Fay Island was flooded this month. I hadn't heard about this and subsequently Googled about a bit. (Fay Is. is between Palm Tract and Bacon Is. on Old River, to the southwest of Mildred.) Interestingly enough, in the past the Delta Protection Commission has sought funding to study and pursue activities to "restore tidal action" to Fay. (It would seem that if the state is to purchase Fay, now would be the time to do it cheaply.) Some '01 & '02 figures I dug up showed $54,000 in grants to Fay levees from Bay-Delta in those two years alone (yes, this is $540/acre for privately owned land). The CC Times sympathized with Fay's owners at
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/2006/01/05/news/13554702.htm
but didn't mention government grants or studies.
Personally, though the money involved probably won't make or break a Delta plan, I think it would be stupid for the State to fund the repair of Fay Island's levee only to turn around and pay the owners a premium so it could be flooded.
BTG
1. A SoCal dairy farmer named Heuvel says SoCal should shift its focus to desalinization and other water sources (good news) by using the monies otherwise headed for delta levees (bad news).
2. The article says 100 acre privately owned Fay Island was flooded this month. I hadn't heard about this and subsequently Googled about a bit. (Fay Is. is between Palm Tract and Bacon Is. on Old River, to the southwest of Mildred.) Interestingly enough, in the past the Delta Protection Commission has sought funding to study and pursue activities to "restore tidal action" to Fay. (It would seem that if the state is to purchase Fay, now would be the time to do it cheaply.) Some '01 & '02 figures I dug up showed $54,000 in grants to Fay levees from Bay-Delta in those two years alone (yes, this is $540/acre for privately owned land). The CC Times sympathized with Fay's owners at
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/2006/01/05/news/13554702.htm
but didn't mention government grants or studies.
Personally, though the money involved probably won't make or break a Delta plan, I think it would be stupid for the State to fund the repair of Fay Island's levee only to turn around and pay the owners a premium so it could be flooded.
BTG