The truth always seems to find a way of getting out and finally the Bay Delta Conservation Plan has been exposed for what it is which is nothing more than a plan to send water to Southern California. This is good news for Delta supporters.
In response, Legislators have called for an immediate halt to all efforts with the project while some are calling for Natural Resources Agency Deputy Director Jerry Meral job after he said, “BDCP is not about, and has never been about saving the Delta. The Delta cannot be saved.”
Lois Wolk (D-Davis) sent out her own statement today saying: “This feels like it could be the 47 percent moment for the BDCP, when an off-camera candid comment reveals more about what’s really going on than all the carefully crafted sales pitches before it.
Senator Mark DeSaulnier, who also serves on the Delta Protection Commission with Assemblyman Jim Frazier, Supervisor Mary Piepho, and Oakley Councilwoman Diane Burgis, sent out a Press Release late Friday calling for BDCP stoppage.
Legislators call for immediate halt to Delta tunnels plan
Top administrator admits tunnels won’t save the DeltaAmid calls from California’s Congressional delegation for the resignation of Governor Brown’s leader of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build two massive tunnels beneath the Delta, state legislators today asked for an immediate halt to all efforts to implement the project to export more Northern California water south under the guise of saving the imperiled Delta.
While speaking with Tom Stokely of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) at a meeting with Northern California’s Native American Tribes on Monday, April 15, Natural Resources Agency Deputy Director Jerry Meral said, “BDCP is not about, and has never been about saving the Delta. The Delta cannot be saved.”
In response, the following statement was signed by Senators Lois Wolk (D-Davis), Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett (D-East Bay), and Assembly Members Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo), Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), Jim Frazier (D-Oakley), Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), Mariko Yamada (D-Davis):
“Recent comments made by the top administrator of the proposed Delta tunnels plan only serve to confirm what many have known for some time, that the poorly named Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is not really designed to save the Delta, but is primarily focused on exporting more water from the North to the South, in clear defiance of the legally mandated co-equal goals that include water supply reliability and Delta restoration, as well as reduced reliance on the Delta. Dr. Meral’s comments, made in a rare moment of candor in a remote location, reveal why northern California communities have been locked out of the development of this plan, and why more thoughtful and affordable alternatives have been repeatedly brushed aside. Dr. Meral told the truth, and while his resignation may be appropriate, the far bigger problem is the BDCP itself, and the rush to push it through without full public review, legislative approval, or oversight by anyone other than the water contractors behind it. Accordingly, we state legislators call for an immediate halt and reassessment of the entire BDCP process. It’s time to reassert the proper legislative role in the most significant water project proposal of the 21st century.”
Senator DeSaulnier serves on the Delta Protection Commission
Website of Senator Mark DeSaulnier: http://www.sd07.senate.ca.gov/
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All the politicians near the delta here should tell Gov. Brown to save millions by building a desalinization plant down south and have endless drinking water from the sea. It would save our delta and fix southern cals problem for good. They could name it ” DeSaulnier Desalinization Plant One”
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