DCA #SacDelta SEC meeting. Sean Wirth, @SierraClubCA
DCA deciding to keep #CAwaterfix intake locations for new #Deltatunnel is unacceptable. Old intake locations were chosen primarily on operational and cost considerations, not avoiding impacts on fish and birds. #CAwater
DCA: only feasible sites for #Deltatunnel intakes between the American River and Sutter Slough are 5 sites analyzed for #CAwaterfix. Best intake site is #CAwaterfix site north of hood, next best is #CAwaterfix site north of Courtland.
Looks like #CAWaterFix was a pipeline of 240 million dollars to #CAwater consultants.
The small #SacDelta legacy towns of Hood and Clarksburg breathe a sigh of relief. Construction noise contours for @JerryBrownGov #CAwaterfix. #CAwater
Missing evidence: Judge finds that tunnel contractors threw away pipe fragments that Bertha hit #CAWaterFix #Tunnels www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportat...
Department of Water Resources hits pause on WaterFix www.thepress.net/news/department-of-water... #CAwater #CAwaterFix
Will changes to a one tunnel #CAWaterFix project require a new #CAwater right change petition? Ruling on 2018 motions for continuance and testimony for @CalRivers in the @CaWaterBoards...
Central Delta Water Agency on #CAWaterFix EIR: Fails to “adequately investigate, discuss or analyze, much less mitigate” the risks to Delta levees from tunnel boring. #CAwater #CAflood
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Reclamation is currently refusing to comply with @CaWaterBoards current WQCP minimum instream flow standards at Vernalis -- while simultaneously claiming in the Board's #CAWaterFix hearing that all Bay-Delta WQCP standards would be met. #CAWater
@CA_DPC to @DeltaCouncil on #CAWaterFix
#2 ...an existential crisis for the small Delta communities that would be most affected by... the radical... effects on the Delta economic drivers of agriculture, recreation, and emerging heritage tourism...
@CA_DPC to @DeltaCouncil on #CAWaterFix
#1 It is not hyperbole to suggest that the CWF project presents an existential crisis for the small Delta communities that would be most affected by the protracted, intensive construction period ... ...
#CAWaterFix Final EIR / EIS: "Harmful impacts are more likely to occur if the project design is based upon a low projection of sea level rise and less likely if higher estimates of sea level rise are used." Why assume 18 in increase in max water surface elevation? #CAWater #FAIL
Part of the reason @DeltaCouncil is recommending that @CA_DWR withdraw their certification of consistency, #CAWaterFix: DWR claims “no sensitive receptors” to hazardous materials in North Delta towns...
North Delta photographer Karen Medder @KMPSShots to @DeltaCouncil on #CAWaterFix. The idea that you will just show up and steamroll through the #sacdelta is just wrong. #sacdelta #CAWater
Speaking before @DeltaCouncil on #CAWaterFix North Delta Water Agency's manager Melinda Terry cites potential to cause subsidence with dewatering, pounding levee crests with increased traffic on levee roads, and disruption of seasonal flood fighting. #sacdelta risks #cawater
In calling for @CA_DWR to withdraw the consistency determination for the #CAWaterFix, @DeltaCouncil Chair Randy Fiorini specifically cites staff's findings on failure to comply with Delta Plan on #sacdelta flow objectives, Reduced Reliance on the Delta, Delta As Place. #cawater
@DeltaCouncil Chair Randy Fiorini praises staff for report, calls for DWR to withdraw the #CAWaterFix consistency determination, saying it is premature. Fiorini says the Council's approval of the #CAWaterFix is not an issue of political expediency. #cawater
Somach Simmons & Dunn | Delta Stewardship Council Staff Determination Presents Hurdle for California WaterFix Project. #CAWaterFix #CAwater www.somachlaw.com/policy-alert/delta-stewa...
@DeltaCouncil staff draft on #CAWaterFix would require @CA_DWR to identify all the water suppliers that would receive #CAwater from the project and show that they are implementing projects that reduce reliance on the #sacdelta. Difficult for @mwdh2o 33% share.
@DeltaCouncil Independent Science Board on #cawaterfix: The potential direct effects of climate change and sea-level rise ... are not adequately considered. . . . We believe this is dangerously unrealistic. ...
@Deltacouncil staff report recommended remand of #CAWaterFix project to DWR because of failure to consider "best available science" on #climatechange and sea level rise. @CA_DWR was promising to address it in the "next engineering revision."...
@JanMcCleery on #CAWaterFix impacts
Tunneling Expert Tom Williams ... “The construction of two forty foot diameter, 40 mile long tunnels in soft wet sedimentary and peat soils is a significant engineering challenge”. DWR picked the wrong route!
https://bit.ly/2P4McXh
#cawater
@CA_DPC to @DeltaCouncil on #CAWaterFix appeals It is not hyperbole to suggest that the CWF project presents an existential crisis for the small Delta communities that would be most affected by the protracted, intensive construction period ... https://bit.ly/2Q7mmON #cawater
Potentially hazardous levels of chromium found in sediments at #CAwaterfix intake locations. @CA_DWR did not disclose in CEQA documents. Issue raised in @DeltaCouncil consistency hearings #cawater ...
Looking towards Bouldin Island, Sacramento Delta, where @mwdh2o is planning to construct a huge 45-50 foot tall tunnel shaft mound for the #CAWaterfix, starting early next year. #sacdelta #cawater
But the #CAWaterFix estimate of 18 inches sea level rise at Hood uses Manning's equation, which was criticized as overly simplistic even for the #sacdelta risk management strategy. Est. also assumes no #sacdelta island flooding -- current #sacdelta channel geometry. #cawater
John Bednarski (@mwdh2o #CAWaterFix project manager) testified in the SWRCB WaterFix hearing that 55 inches of sea level rise at the Golden Gate translates to 18 inches of increase in water surface elevation at Hood. @mwdh2o is using this estimate for the intake design. #cawater
The entire town of Locke is a National landmark. Historian James Motlow testified in the #CAWaterFix hearing that routing 24 hour a day construction traffic on Highway 160 would ultimately destroy the town by closing down the local...
Virginia Cabra, Delta resident, testifies for @SacCountyCA that "Hood will just wither up and die" during the 11 years of construction for the #CAWaterFix
