tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53238553360655016052024-02-20T09:32:59.264-08:00Planetary SolutionariesPatrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-74784869294806706062017-03-31T18:00:00.003-07:002017-04-06T16:19:25.625-07:00Oroville Dam Emergency Action Plan Missing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 31 March 2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> FYI Patrick Porgans, <a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org">pp@planetarysolutionaries.org</a></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><v:imagedata o:title="17_03-Oroville-1-e1488352482608" src="file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\04\clip_image001.jpg"><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amidst all the chaos and rhetoric while Oroville Dam’s Flood Control Outlet collapse and the Emergency Spillway eroded massive amounts of earth and debris adjacent to the dam, “water officials” apparently provided law enforcement personnel with misleading assurance there was no threat to public safety or need to evacuate residents in the surrounding areas. </span></v:imagedata></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">While water officials’ interim attempts to apply band aid fixes, news reporters failed from the onset to ask the quintessential question, where was the Department of Water Resources “Emergency Action Plan” for the Oroville Dam facilities. The Plan is required by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the operation of the Oroville Facilities, which includes the Flood Control Outlet and Emergency Spillway.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">FERC's Office of External Affairs stated it is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which could take 30 to 60 days or more to receive a response. Department officials already have a copy of this Plan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Furthermore, FERC's attorneys would review the nature of the request, and discuss the release of the Emergency Action Plan with the Department to get its' input before considering release of the Plan. However, even if the Plan is released, the requester would have to sign a Non-Disclosure form stating the FOIA requested Plan is not to be shared with anyone, and there may be a fee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Copies of the State required Department's annual dam inspections it conducts at the Oroville facilities, including the dam, gated flood control outlet, and the emergency spillway, were obtained by Planetary Solutionaries. The inspection report conducted in 2016 depicts cracks and bulges in the gated flood control outlet structure and movement of boulders and vegetation below the Emergency Spillway. (See photographs below.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Department officials were reluctant to release the State required annual dam inspections of the Oroville Facilities. It required a personal visit to the Department’s Headquarters and Division of Dam Safety, which are located in two different places in Sacramento. The Division of Dam Safety was advised that the author was in route to get the inspection documents. Upon arrival, Division personnel stated that even though they are responsible for conducting the inspections, the reports were not on file at that office; ironically the documents were in the possession of the Public Information Office, located at Department Headquarter!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ten minutes later, upon arrival at the Headquarters, the author explained to Department personnel, he was not leaving until they provided the dam inspection reports; which minutes before closing, they provided.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is important to note that the Department is responsible for the inspections of an estimated 1200 dams throughout the Golden State; what does that say about dam safety!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A number of other abnormalities occurred during this calamitous and near catastrophic event; officials’ statements no danger to public safety followed by an instantaneous evacuation mandate. This evacuation reportedly uprooted an estimated 200,000 people from several surrounding counties; government websites that provide vital reservoir operation data went down; sensors for monitoring flood data were no longer available via the web, and so on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The author made the effort to provide local newspaper and T.V. stations of these findings, but they opted not to use the information. #</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Additional information on the conditions leading up to the flood water releases and the manner in which they were made will be continued in the second part of this three part series. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part II: </span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Déjà vu-</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dam it, Oroville flood structure failures is strike three, counting 1986-1997 flood disasters<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">About the Author: Patrick Porgans, Forensic Accountant, Government Regulatory Specialist and Solutionist with Porgans/Associates. Porgans is also the founder of </span></span><a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">www.planetarysolutionaries.org</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> a not for profit organization.</span></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-84203787487031234342017-03-30T19:22:00.001-07:002017-03-31T17:45:13.588-07:00Where was the Federal Emergency Action Plan required for Oroville Dam Facilities <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 30 March 2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> FYI Patrick Porgans, <a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org">pp@planetarysolutionaries.org</a></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><v:imagedata o:title="17_03-Oroville-1-e1488352482608" src="file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\04\clip_image001.jpg"><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amidst all the chaos and rhetoric while Oroville Dam’s Flood Control Outlet collapse and the Emergency Spillway eroded massive amounts of earth and debris adjacent to the dam, “water and law enforcement officials” apparently provided false assurance there was no threat to public safety or need to evacuate residents in the surrounding areas. </span></v:imagedata></span></span><br />
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attempts to apply band aid fixes, news reporters failed from the onset to ask
the quintessential question, where was the Department of Water Resources
“Emergency Action Plan” for the Oroville Dam facilities. The Plan is required
by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the operation of the Oroville
Facilities, which includes the Flood Control Outlet and Emergency Spillway.</span></span><br />
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by the Department for the State Water Project's Oroville facilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to 60 days or more to receive a response. Department officials already have a
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would review the nature of the request, and discuss the release of the
Emergency Action Plan with the Department to get its' input before considering
release of the Plan. However, even if the Plan is released, the requester would
have to sign a Non-Disclosure form stating the FOIA requested Plan is not to be
shared with anyone, and there may be a fee. </span></span></div>
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provides that documents are to be furnished without charge or a reduction in
established fees if disclosure is in the public interest because it is likely
to contribute to public understanding of the operations or activities of the
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annual dam inspections it conducts at the Oroville facilities, including the
dam, gated flood control outlet, and the emergency spillway, were obtained by
Planetary Solutionaries. The inspection report conducted in 2016 depicts cracks
and bulges in the gated flood control outlet structure and movement of boulders
and vegetation below the Emergency Spillway. (See photographs below.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Department officials were
reluctant to release the State required annual dam inspections of the Oroville
Facilities. It required a personal visit to the Department’s Headquarters and
Division of Dam Safety, which are located in two different places in
Sacramento. The Division of Dam Safety was advised that the author was in route
to get the inspection documents. Upon arrival, Division personnel stated that
even though they are responsible for conducting the inspections, the reports
were not on file at that office; ironically the documents were in the possession
of the Public Information Office, located at Department Headquarter!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ten minutes later, upon arrival
at the Headquarters, the author explained to Department personnel, he was not
leaving until they provided the dam inspection reports; which minutes before
closing, they provided.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is important to note that the
Department is responsible for the inspections of an estimated 1200 dams
throughout the Golden State; what does that say about dam safety!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A number of other abnormalities occurred
during this calamitous and near catastrophic event; officials’
statements no danger to public safety followed by an instantaneous evacuation
mandate. This evacuation reportedly uprooted an estimated 200,000 people from
several surrounding counties; government websites that provide vital reservoir
operation data went down; sensors for monitoring flood data were no longer
available via the web, and so on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The author made the effort to
provide local newspaper and T.V. stations of these findings, but they opted not
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Additional information on the
conditions leading up to the flood water releases and the manner in which they
were made will be continued in the second part of this three part series. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part II: </span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Déjà vu-</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dam
it, Oroville flood structure failures is strike three, counting 1986-1997 flood
disasters<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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operandi Confidential Report behind reoccurring floods<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">About the Author: Patrick
Porgans, Forensic Accountant, Government Regulatory Specialist and Solutionist
with Porgans/Associates. Porgans is also the founder of </span></span><a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">www.planetarysolutionaries.org</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> a
not for profit organization.</span></span></div>
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initiated a Reservoir Monitoring Program during the rainy season to ensure
dam operators are compliant with federal flood control rules and regulations.
He conducted a Fact-Finding Reports of every major flood disaster that
occurred on the Feather and Yuba Rivers since 1986.</span></span></div>
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Reports on water-and water-related issues in California and throughout the
West. He provided the chapter on the State Water Project, which was in Marc
Reisner's book, Cadillac Desert. </span></span><a href="http://patrickporgansblog.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">http://patrickporgansblog.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/patrickporgans"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">https://www.linkedin.com/patrickporgans</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This photograph, paints a clear picture of the state of the Collaborators' failed decades in-the-making plan, branded as the Delta Reform Act of 2009. The Act provided the enabling legislation to improve and protect the largest remaining Bay-Delta Estuary on the west coast of the Americas. Its formal rival, the Colorado River Delta that flowed into the Sea of Cortez, is essentially dead, which federal and state officials successfully destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The "Act" purportedly authorized a coequal partnership amongst government, water industry, agriculture, land-gentry billionaire, environmental and other nongovernment organization, building industry, financial institutions, and mainstream media, to improve and protect the largest remaining Bay-Delta Estuary on the west coast of the Americas. </span><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/doug-obegi/californias-co-equal-goals-delta"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.nrdc.org/experts/doug-obegi/californias-co-equal-goals-delta</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Porgans/Associates are currently conducting a Forensic Accounting of governments 56 years of failure to provide Bay/Delta protections identified, authorized, mandated, and finance in 1960; unfortunately, government spent the funds and never fulfilled the legislative and voter mandate. The Fact-Finding Forensic Accounting Report will be made public soon.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">California water officials and mainstream media assertions this epic drought caused socioeconomic and financial disaster to state’s economy is not supported by the facts published in government reports. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Three years into the drought and the Golden State Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reached a record of $2.31 trillion, agricultural revenues higher than ever, statewide building permits doubled, and more water-guzzling permanent crops planted. </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">(Latest published GDP figures.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">2 May 2016 </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Contact Patrick Porgans, Solutionist Porgans/Associates <a href="mailto:porgansinc@sbcglobal.net">porgansinc@sbcglobal.net</a> (916) 833-8734 <br />
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Californians inundated by a plethora of mainstream-media bytes predicting Draconian consequence from this "epic drought" water experts and public-relations firms branded the worst in 500-years are perplexed by drought-flood news accounts aired simultaneously. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Meanwhile, government officials, water contractors, and mainstream media, whine about the dire impacts of the so-called worst drought in California since the 1500s, the record, show they're reaping windfall profits. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Public records attest that the Golden State's economy, tax revenue stream, and Gross Domestic Product (</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">GDP</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">) reached all-time highs during four years of drought. In the third year of the drought, the state's GDP was a record-breaker. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">"In 2014, the State’s GDP was ranked as the 7th or 8th largest economy in the world, based on traditional measurements [just below France and above Brazil]. On June 10 [2015], the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its preliminary estimates of state gross domestic product (GDP) for 2014, as we described in a blog post last week. California's 2014 GDP— the value of all goods and services produced here—was estimated at $2.31 trillion. There are different estimates of countries' GDP." <a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/90">http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/90</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">That number is the latest number published by the government </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.bea.gov/">www.bea.gov</a>)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Epic drought generates the largest budget in State’s history</b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">: Last month, Governor Jerry Brown proposed the largest budget in California's history; $170 billion, of which, $120 billion comes from the State's General Fund revenue stream; with additional billions earmarked by Brown to the "Rainy Day" fund. This surplus of funds is collected tax revenue; almost 70 percent of the $120 billion is derived from personal income tax. Today, the Rainy Day Fund is at 37 percent of its constitutional target (10 percent of General Fund tax revenues) amounts to $12 billion to be held in reserve! The Budget proposes to bring the Rainy Day Fund to a balance of 65 percent. <a href="http://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf">ttp://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf</a>]</span></span><br />
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This March, government and water industry officials responded to the good news by extending mandatory water cutback! California’s economy has expanded during the past seven years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Governor’s Budget Summary 2016-2017, Introduction</b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">. "The economy is finishing its seventh year of expansion, already two years longer than the average recovery. While the timing is uncertain, the next recession is getting closer, and the state must begin to plan for it. If new ongoing commitments are made now, then the severity of the cuts will be far greater – even devastating – when the recession begins. Without question, the best way to protect against future cuts is to build up the state’s Rainy Day Fund," according to Gov. Brown. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Californians face a multi-dimensional conundrum; an extended drought, which imposed first-time ever statewide mandatory water cutbacks while portions of the state are under siege from flooding resulting from the remnant of a fading El Nino. Factors compounded by a massive appeal by the water industry requesting State Water Resources Control Board (</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">SWRCB</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">) members to end the drought. In the interim, the Brown Administration recently reinstituted signage posted on California highways stating: Extreme Drought – Conserve water! </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7jSpJxibmKCphgrAebCDFsbmx2AnojeASVbDYjVqtIZdzTdgfmg8Q-E9SoUnLudAeJlJ54QWi7eSct1ANtAIcD4XFC5lbXsMheMfsCpvclkV0NrDayu-o9zKZVRX3LCeruu_zRGV5H4/s1600/Cawatercon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7jSpJxibmKCphgrAebCDFsbmx2AnojeASVbDYjVqtIZdzTdgfmg8Q-E9SoUnLudAeJlJ54QWi7eSct1ANtAIcD4XFC5lbXsMheMfsCpvclkV0NrDayu-o9zKZVRX3LCeruu_zRGV5H4/s320/Cawatercon.png" width="216" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Water condition above average: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">The truth about the state's water conditions is immersed in a stupor of shifting forecasts, as is the winter weather, unpredictable and changing. On 1 February a report depicting statewide precipitation at 115 percent and 120 percent for the North Coast Region for this time of year, according to Department of Water Resources (</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">DWR</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">) personnel.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">1 </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">The very next day 2 February the SWRCB voted to extend drought emergency regulation, purportedly to ensure mandatory water conservation through October 2016.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">2 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">In early March through April Californians were stunned as officials dump floodwaters from Folsom Dam, on the American River, which had received 120 percent of average precipitation. Water was also being dumped at other major reservoirs in the north state. <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article67772672.html">http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article67772672.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">It is estimated that more than one million acre-feet of water were dumped from state reservoirs, enough to provide half of the water needs of those 19 million customers receive annually from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. <br />
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The March snow survey, conducted by DWR personnel showed snowpack at locations ranged from low 90s to over 100 percent of average. h<a href="http://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/waterconditions.cfm">ttp://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/waterconditions.cfm</a><br />
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Findings contained in a Forensic Accounting based on the public record and direct intercommunication with water officials and regulatory personnel, most of whom putatively accepted the 500-year conjecture, in the absences of verifiable peer-reviewed data. If the intrinsic shortcomings of those assertions were even theoretically plausible, assuming that this is the worst drought in California, it might have possibly occurred in central and southern California; however, the public record does not support those assertions in the water-rich north state. <a href="http://www.theterranews.com/content/?p=66539">http://www.theterranews.com/content/?p=66539</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Forensic Accounts of previous drought events are the subject of a series of article that prompted responses from the California Farm Water Coalition. <br />
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The California Farm Water Coalition has this response to Patrick Porgans & Lloyd Carter’s post, Wolf Cries – Howling About Drought – All Wet – No More Doubts Officials Exaggerated Severity of Drought: "Coalition viewpoint…These numbers provide a clear picture of the effect that governmental regulations and the drought, during the past four years, had on water users who rely on deliveries of water through the Delta. As indicated by the bloggers, the water years in the Sacramento Valley from 2006-2009 averaged 16.39 million acre-feet (MAF), which is a 60% increase, or 6 MAF more than during 1989-1992." <a href="http://www.farmwater.org/Current-News/">http://www.farmwater.org/Current-News/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/california-farm-water-coalition-responds-porganscarter-commentary-howling-about">http://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/california-farm-water-coalition-responds-porganscarter-commentary-howling-about</a> </span></span></span><br />
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Ironically, the doomsday public-relations campaign precipitated an astonishing downpour of wealth to state and federal water contractors that already receive publicly-subsidized water. Water districts and land-gentry billionaires reaped an abundant harvest of public give-away funds. Unfortunately, their profits come at the expense and to the demise of urban water users; taxpayers, the state General Fund, and Public Trust Resources (water, fish, and wildlife).3 </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Abundant Harvest: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">Contrary to mainstream media reports, agricultural profits reached all-time high in the fourth year of drought. "Even though the 2014 crop year coincides with the third consecutive year of unprecedented drought, the innovation and resilience of California’s agricultural community continue to ensure the State’s agricultural abundance. Despite the tremendous challenges in 2014, the farmgate value of the state’s 76,400 farms and ranches was a record $54 billion. Of the $54 billion, over $21 billion was attributed to California’s agricultural exports." <a href="http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/iodir?s=b120">http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/iodir?s=b120</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Building permits doubled: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">In the second and third year of the drought, building permits doubled statewide. </span></span><br />
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The Governor's Proclamation and the Emergency Drought Regulations relieve government water project operators of their obligation to comply with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It also sanctions the reduction or suspension of water quality standards and objectives contained in the San Francisco Bay- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Water Quality Control Plan; enacted to protect Delta farmers, water diverters, and aquatic, avian and terrestrial species. <br />
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The SWRCB issued emergency drought regulation that targets mandatory cutbacks by urban-residential users, while subversively exempting the agricultural industry that reportedly applies an estimated 80 percent of the state's developed water supply annually. Instead, Board members left it up to the agricultural industry to reduce and conserve water. <br />
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Gross agricultural revenues represent about two (2) percent of the State's GDP. Additional revenue is generated by the processing and distribution of the products produced. Thus for every dollar of value added in that sector, there is an additional $1.27 added to the state economy.<br />
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During this current drought, it is estimated that $3 billion of borrowed public funds have already been given away for drought "relief" programs. That money comes from the sale of State issued General Obligation (G.O.) bonds, which, repayment is backed by the full-faith and credit of California. A list of General Obligation Bonds authorized and issued by the state can be found here. <a href="http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/bonds/debt/04/authorized.pdf">http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/bonds/debt/04/authorized.pdf</a><br />
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For every dollar of G.O. bonds sold, it cost a dollar in interest; it will cost $6 billion to repay, with revenues derived the State's General Fund. "It must never be forgotten, however, that 69.5 percent of our General Fund revenues come from the volatile personal income tax which, as history shows us, drops precipitously in time of recession — an event not too far off given the historic pattern of the ten recessions that have occurred since 1945. During a moderate recession, revenue losses to the General Fund will easily total $55 billion over three years"; Gov.'s Budget Summary 2016-2017.11 [Note: Rainy Day Fund is used to assure bond investors G.O. debt is covered. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-releases-state-budget-20160107-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-releases-state-budget-20160107-story.html</a></span></span><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">"California, which produces much of the country's water-guzzling fruits [nuts] and vegetables, is in year four of a major drought, and almonds, its No. 1 export, have become a symbol of the state's heavy water consumption. Mature almond trees in the Southern Sacramento Valley use 41 to 44 inches of water on average per year, according to the University of California at Davis. Trees in drier southern San Joaquin Valley use 50 to 54 inches. In California, an acre supports about 124 almond trees. Last year, and acre produced around 2,270 pounds of almonds, for a ratio of about 502 gallons of water per pound of nuts." (The math works out to equals 3.49 acre-feet of water per acre of almonds planted.) Total amount of water applied averages out to 3.55 MAF annually. <br />
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-numbers-behind-agricultural-water-use-1434726353">www.wsj.com/articles/the-numbers-behind-agricultural-water-use-1434726353</a><br />
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The amount of water required to sustain the growth of these almonds is 1.4 MAF more than the 2.1 MAF the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California provides annually. (One acre-foot equals about 326,000 gallons; an average California household uses between one-half and one acre-foot of water per year for indoor and outdoor use.) <a href="http://www.watereducation.org/general-information/whats-acre-foot">http://www.watereducation.org/general-information/whats-acre-foot</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Almond crop bonanza – money grows on trees: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">In the year 2000, there was 610,000 acre of almond planted, valued at $666,487,000 for the crop. California's 2014 almond acreage is estimated at 1,020,000 acres, up 5 percent from the 2013 acreage of 970,000, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Of the total acreage for 2014, 870,000 acres were bearing, and 150,000 acres were nonbearing, crop valued at $6,464,500,000. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_StateCalifornia/Publications/fruits_and_Nuts/201505almpd.pdf">http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_StateCalifornia/Publications/fruits_and_Nuts/201505almpd.pdf</a> <br />
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The subjective production for the 2015 almond crop is 1.85 billion pounds, according to a survey conducted by the National Statistic Service. <a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Fruits_and_Nuts/201505almpd.pdf">https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Fruits_and_Nuts/201505almpd.pdf</a><br />
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CBS and Fox News "erred" scenes of almond orchards ripped out due to a lack of water while other experts predicted California would run out of water in 2016. Public records do not support their assertions and the orchard depicted in their stories failed to "air" the scene where those same drought-stricken lands were replanted with a new variety of almonds. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/depleting-the-water As indicated by USDA's Graph California Almond Bearing Acreage has continued to expand before and since the onset of this drought, in 2011. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">The SWRCB was advised of almond acreage expansion years ago; it took no action to curtail the use of the public's water, and growers went nuts. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrightsissues/programs/drought/docs/workshops/comments/patrick_porgans.pdf">http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrightsissues/programs/drought/docs/workshops/comments/patrick_porgans.pdf</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There was so much of a glut in the almond market that the price of almonds dropped precipitously. After prices for almonds climbed to a record $4 per pound in 2014, farmers across California began replacing their cheaper crops with the nut, causing a huge increase in supply. Now, the bubble has popped. Since late 2014, according to The Washington Post, almond prices have fallen by around 25%. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">More grapes and other permanent crops also planted while building permits doubled statewide in 2013-2014. <br />
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A major challenge facings taxpaying Californians, is if they can afford to export water in the form of surplus fruits and nuts to countries such as China, which is not required to pay an import tax. In the interim, the California dream appears to be fading into the midst impairing their quality of life and cost of living as the forces behind water exploitation usurp others water and property rights. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">1 California Department of Water Resources, Bulletin 120, Water Conditions in California, February 1, 2016, p. 2. </span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">2 </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">State Water Resource Control Board’s Fact Sheet, </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">Extending the Emergency Water Conservation Regulation, </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">9 February 2016. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Part II: Water officials usurp property/water rights under the guise drastic action to protect endangered fish </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Part III: California’s drought-flood water management crises - why it pays - source of funds </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>About the author: </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">Patrick Porgans is a Solutionist, and for the past 40 years serving clients and as a de facto public trustee, assisting and or compelling government officials to perform their functions in a manner consistent with the law. Porgans authored more than 80 Fact-Finding reports on water- and water-related issues in the West. He contributed to Mark Reisner's Cadillac Desert publication. He is the author of "Truth De-Code-It", which provides insight on how wealthy land-gentry billionaires are using the tax base, the state's credit rating, General Fund, General Obligation Bonds, and publicly-owned natural resources to amass and sustain ill-gain fortunes. (Truth De-Code-It focuses on ways to mutually coexist and to empower ourselves to make change, one person, one day at a time. The FACT SHEET can be viewed at www.planetarysolutionaries.org or by emailing noblewaters@yahoo.com </span></span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This report was made possible by the joint commitment of New-Old Worlds Wholistically Emerging (NOWWE) and Patrick Porgans/Associates as a public service. </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;">For more articles and FACT SHEETS, Google Patrick Porgans water. </span></span><br />
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-58459113200795878372016-01-08T00:01:00.000-08:002016-01-08T00:18:31.368-08:00One word for 2016 and hereafter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-47028720269691966772016-01-07T23:42:00.004-08:002016-01-07T23:44:29.927-08:00Farmers Try Political Force to Twist Open California’s Taps<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Few in
agriculture have shaped the debate over water more than the<br />
several hundred owners of an arid finger of farmland west of Fresno.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/michael_wines/index.html" title="More Articles by MICHAEL WINES"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">MICHAEL WINES</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/jennifer_medina/index.html" title="More Articles by JENNIFER MEDINA"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">JENNIFER MEDINA</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DEC. 30, 2015 NYT<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">FIVE POINTS, Calif. — The message that Maria L. Gutierrez
gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic
drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm
workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino businesses and thrown Latino families on the
street. Yet Congress had turned a deaf ear to their pleas for more water to
revive farming and farm labor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So Latinos — the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group,
she noted pointedly — were sending a warning that politicians could not ignore.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“We created an organization that’s called </span><a href="http://aguaasuntodetodos.com/" title="El Agua Es Asunto de Todos"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">El Agua
Es Asunto de Todos</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> — Water Is Everybody’s Business — so the Latino voice
can be heard,” Ms. Gutierrez, who described herself as an El Agua volunteer,
said in October 2013 at the meeting with lawmakers. “Don’t devastate our
economy. Don’t take our jobs away.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The group has since blanketed California with demands for
more water on Spanish-language television, on the Internet, even on yard signs.
But for whom it speaks is another matter: El Agua is bankrolled by more than
$1.1 million from the </span><a href="http://www.wwd.ca.gov/" title="Westlands Water District"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Westlands Water District</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, the nation’s
largest agricultural irrigation contractor, a state entity created at the
behest of — and largely controlled by — some of California’s wealthiest and
most politically influential farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For almost five decades, Westlands has brought its
farmers a torrent of water from the reservoirs and aqueducts of the federal </span><a href="http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/" title="Central Valley Project"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Central
Valley Project</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, the vast public work that irrigates half of California
agriculture. </span><a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" title="United States Drought Monitor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Drought</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> has reduced that torrent to
drops, and El Agua is one part of Westlands’ wide-ranging effort to open the
spigots again.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">California has </span><a href="https://www.agclassroom.org/kids/stats/california.pdf" title="A Look at California Agriculture"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">more than 81,000 farms</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and
farmers claim four-fifths of all the water its citizens consume. But no one in
agriculture has shaped the debate over water more — or swung their elbows wider
— than the few hundred owners of an arid, Rhode Island-size finger of farmland
west of Fresno.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A water utility on paper, Westlands in practice is a
formidable political force, a $100 million-a-year agency with five lobbying
firms under contract in Washington and Sacramento, a staff peppered with former
federal and congressional powers, a separate political action committee
representing farmers and a government-and-public-relations budget that topped
$950,000 last year. It is a financier and leading force for a band of </span><a href="http://www.sldmwa.org/" title="San Luis Delta-Mendota Water Authority"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">29
water districts</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> that spent at least another $270,000 on lobbying last year.
Its nine directors and their relatives gave at least $430,000 to federal
candidates and the Republican Party in the last two election cycles, and the
farmers’ political action committee gave more than $315,000 more. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/us/farmers-try-political-force-to-twist-open-californias-taps.html?_r=1#story-continues-3"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Continue
reading the main story</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-59471254398663602542015-09-22T01:37:00.000-07:002015-09-22T02:10:59.465-07:00Why Is California Giving More Water to Golf Courses Than Wildlife? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i id="yiv3427798218yui_3_16_0_1_1442660357407_11235"><span id="yiv3427798218yui_3_16_0_1_1442660357407_11234" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Golf courses get 25-year water contracts while a wildlife preserve that shelters millions of birds and dozens of protected species get a 1-year contract</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Read more… </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442910349361_2178" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/lawsuit-claims-socal-giving-more-water-golf-courses-wildlife-preserve" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442910349361_2177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/environment/lawsuit-claims-socal-giving-more-water-golf-courses-wildlife-</a></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-86036691559394694142015-04-17T02:22:00.000-07:002015-04-20T15:34:10.000-07:00California water officials cancel plan to construct emergency drought barriers in North Delta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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person: For additional information email Patrick Porgans at </span><a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">pp@planetarysolutionaries.org</span></a></span><br />
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Slough and Sutter Slough have been removed as sites for two of three barriers, which came under
strong public opposition from members of C.A.R.E.S, Delta farmers and others.</span></span></span></div>
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drought barriers anywhere in the Delta, was informed by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has decided not to dam
up Steamboat Slough and Sutter Slough; however, DWR officials plan to go ahead with the one proposed for West False River. The barrier would be essentially a pile of basketball-size rocks across a 750-foot-wide channel that still allows water flow upstream and downstream, depending on the tides. DWR, operator of the State Water Project, is seeking multiple permits from various agencies to accelerate installation. For additional information from DWR officials, contact Nancy Vogel, Public Affairs Director, (916) 651-7512 <a href="mailto:Nancy.Vogel@water.ca.gov">Nancy.Vogel@water.ca.gov</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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documentation submitted to the Corps, by the Department, the Emergency Drought
Barriers project, proposed for Sutter Slough, Steamboat Slough, and False River
would result in permanent impacts to waters of the United States. Temporary
fill would be installed starting May and removed in November. Critics claimed
that there are no funds earmarked to remove the barriers and that they could
cause irreparable damage to Delta farmlands, caused by an increase in saltier
water. Planetary Solutionaries raised concerns about the need and justification
for the barriers, and the impacts that they present to threatened salmonid
and pelagic aquatic species already listed under the Endangered Species Act. </span></span></span></div>
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from the Corps, which stated that water quality conditions in the Delta are
declining due to the severe drought conditions and have already approached
human health criteria at many locations in the South Delta and as far south as
the State Water Project and Central Valley Project intake pumps that export
millions of acre-feet of water from the Delta. (One acre-foot of water is enough
water to cover on acre of land in one foot of water.)</span></span></div>
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Department’s decision and the site of the new proposed location of the
emergency drought barrier. The process will be subject to federal ESA and Clean
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557-5100</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">refer to </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Project
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Regulators in California, the country's third-largest oil-producing state, have
authorized oil companies to inject production fluids and waste into what are
now federally protected aquifers more than 2,500 times, risking contamination
of underground water supplies that could be used for drinking water or
irrigation, state records show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">While the
permits go back decades, an Associated Press analysis found that nearly half of
those injection wells — 46 percent — were approved or began injections in the
last four years under Gov. Jerry Brown, who has pushed state oil and gas
regulators to speed up the permitting process. That happened despite growing
warnings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2011 that state
regulators were out of compliance with federal laws meant to protect
underground drinking-water stores from oilfield contamination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In
California, "we need a big course correction. We need to get the system
back in compliance," said Jared Blumenfeld, regional administrator for the
EPA. "Californians expect their water is not being polluted by oil
producers ... This poses that very real danger." </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/california-permitted-oilfield-discharge-protected-water-175027791.html;_ylt=A86.J7_.yddU2FoAFioPxQt"><span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial;">http://news.yahoo.com/california-permitted-oilfield-discharge-protected-water-175027791.html;_ylt=A86.J7_.yddU2FoAFioPxQt</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-50912811698724906642015-02-02T19:28:00.001-08:002015-02-02T19:30:07.584-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of $7.5 Billion Water Bond Expenditure Unknown</span></a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If you, like 3.5
million Californians, voted “yes” on the $7.5 billion water bond last year, you
should start paying attention to how Gov. Jerry Brown is planning to spend the
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It may not be on
building new dams to store water for future dry years like he assured voters,
farmers and legislators before the election.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The governor
recently divulged how he wants to spend the first $532 million: restoring
streams, rivers and watersheds, water recycling projects, upgrading drinking
water treatment plants, rebates for people buying water-efficient appliances
and, finally, groundwater management and cleanup. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Something seems to
be missing from this list. [Note: Yes, something is missing, who is getting all
the money.] FYI: <a href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/browns-and-50-years-go-bond-debts"><span style="color: blue;">Read
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<b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'If there are wells having a direct impact
on drinking water, we need to shut them down now'. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">California state regulators allowed oil companies to dispose
of wastewater in clean groundwater supplies for years, according to <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/State-let-oil-companies-taint-drinkable-water-in-6054242.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a new report</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The San Francisco <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chronicle, </span></em>citing a review of state data,
reports that oil companies built more than 170 waste-disposal wells feeding
into bodies of groundwater that could otherwise have been used for drinking or
irrigation during one of the area’s worst droughts in centuries. The wells are
primarily located in the state’s agricultural Central Valley region, which was
particularly devastated by the drought.</span></div>
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drinking water, we need to shut them down now,” said Jared Bluemnfeld, regional
administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. “Safe drinking water is
only going to become more in demand.”</span></div>
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Brown administration allowed oil companies to <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/State-let-oil-companies-taint-drinkable-water-in-6054242.php#/0" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #3359a6;">inject toxic wastewater into
underground drinking water aquifers</span></b></a> in the Central Valley, the <i>Chron$</i>
reports. The situation is being made worse by the fact that Central Valley
residents and farmers are increasingly pumping water out of the ground for
drinking and agricultural uses because of the drought. The wastewater
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-84960913216958006022015-01-12T20:24:00.002-08:002015-01-12T20:24:50.189-08:00California toxic water rise despite decades of regulations and expenditures of $50 billion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Contact person – Patrick Porgans, Solutionist (916) 833-8734
</span><a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: blue;">pp@planetarysolutionaries.org</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Public records attest to the fact that after 40 years of regulatory
programs, and more than $50 billion in expenditures, the Golden State’s water
bodies have increased in toxicity! </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: blue;">T<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK
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Include 170% Increase <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK
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<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK
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Listings Since 2006</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Increased
water monitoring data shows the number of rivers, streams and lakes in
California exhibiting overall toxicity have increased 170 percent from 2006 to
2010.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">More of California’s waterways are toxically polluted “water
quality impaired” than previously known, according to a list of polluted
waterways submitted by the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water
Board) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and finalized by the
agency in 2011.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: blue;">Map California’s
Impaired Waters</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All assessed waters in
the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">2010
Report</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">are
a compilation of the latest approved data.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The data
indicate an increase in toxicity and listing of water impaired bodies will
continue to rise. The State Water Board and regional water boards a</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">dminister the
provisions of the CWA under an agreement with EPA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Unfortunately,
the public may not know just how bad things are statewide until 2017or beyond,
as government regulators failed to provide an updated assessment listing the
status of the State’s waters. Even then, critics point out that water quality
monitoring, and the related data, are conducted almost extensively by the
polluters.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lack of Data not the Result of a Lack of Grant
Funds:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/execsum.cfm"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Clean Water Act Section 106(e)(1)</span></span></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> and 40 CFR Part
35.168(a) provide that EPA award Section 106 funds to a State only if the State
provided for, or is carrying out parts of its program the establishment and
operation of appropriate devices, methods, systems, and procedures necessary to
monitor and to compile and analyze data on the quality of navigable waters of
the State, and provisions for annually updating the data and including it in
the Section 305(b) 303(d) Integrated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Report.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span></a>
This document recommends the basic elements of a State water monitoring program
and serves as a tool to help EPA and the States to determine whether a
monitoring program meets the prerequisites of CWA Section 105(e)(1).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></span></a>
<span style="color: black;">Since fiscal year 2000 through 2014-2015 FY,
California received $161,297,325 from EPA in grant funds (CWA, 106 Grants) for
the administration of the 303(d) listing program, and $170 million for CWA, section
319(h) non-point source Grant Program.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Forty-two
years ago, a united Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Clean Water Act</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> (CWA), which ordered
states to limit pollutants in the nation's waterways.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></span></a>
Coupled with subsequent amendments, the CWA required all states to assess and
establish Total Maximum Daily Limits (TMDLs) of pollutants for lakes, creeks,
rivers, estuaries and ocean shorelines. If the states wouldn't do it, the EPA
“could” step in and impose safety limits.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
“</span></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under the CWA TMDLs
are not self-implementing, meaning EPA cannot enforce implementation of a TMDL
once the analysis is complete.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Goal of the Clean Water Act:</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">T<span style="color: #151515;">he goal of the </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#cleanwateract"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">Clean Water Act (CWA)</span></span></a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> is
"to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity
of the Nation's waters" (33 U.S.C §1251(a)). Under </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#section303d"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">section 303(d)</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> of the
CWA, states, territories, and authorized tribes, collectively referred to in
the act as "states," are required to develop lists of </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#303dthreatenedimpairedwaters"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">impaired waters</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">. These
are waters for which technology-based regulations and other required controls
are not stringent enough to meet the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#waterqualitystandards"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">water quality standards</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> set by
states.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The law requires that states establish priority rankings for
waters on the lists and develop </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#totalmaxdailyload"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">TMDLs</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> for
these waters. A TMDL is a calculation of the maximum amount of a </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#pollutant"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">pollutant</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> that a
water body can receive and still safely meet water quality standards.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> The CWA was
authorized to make U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and to achieve
“zero” discharge of pollutants to waterways by 1985<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b> The records and status of the widespread pollution of the
public’s streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ground water basins are a
testament to the manner in which the federal CWA of 1972 and </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-safe-drinking-water-act"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Safe Drinking Water Act</span></span></a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> of 1974 are
administered by State officials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The federal CWA requires states to develop
TMDLs for impaired water bodies; i.e. streams, rivers, and lakes. <span style="color: black;">Informally, an impaired water body is any water that is not
meeting the water quality standards that have been established for that water.
Formally, an impaired water body is one that is not attaining water quality
standards after technology based discharge limits on point sources are
implemented. Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act requires each state
to maintain a list of impaired water bodies and revise the list from time to
time (currently in even numbered years).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span>In the State Water Boards’ </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2008-2010 report to EPA</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">, Region IX, it lists
impaired water bodies adopted by the Board in September 2008.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span></a>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">California has some of the most
magnificent rivers, lakes and coastal waters in the country. However, of its
3.0 million acres of lakes, bays, wetlands and estuaries, 1.6 million acres are
not meeting water quality goals, and 1.4 million acres still need a pollution
clean-up plan, known as a TMDL. Of the 215,000 miles of shoreline, streams and
rivers, 30,000 miles are not meeting water quality goals, and 20,000 miles
still need a TMDL.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a> The most common
contaminants in these waterways are pesticides and bacteria, followed by metals
and nutrients, according to </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">EPA</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Last count, California
has 1,021 </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">impaired water bodies</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> listed on the 303(d)
list, according to EPA’s website.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span></a>
To its credit the Golden State ranks eight in “</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Approved TMDLs by State</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span></a>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Site-Specific Targeted Monitoring
Results of California Rivers and Streams in 2010: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The data indicate
California still has a long ways to go in assessing and establishing TMDLs
statewide. EPA’s latest published </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">report</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> revealed only 15.8%
of the State’s 211,513 miles of rivers and stream was assessed; 84.2%
unassessed of which 89.5% classified as “water-quality impaired”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></span></a>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Monitoring Results of California Lakes,
Reservoirs, and Ponds in 2010: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Site-specific targeted monitoring results for California
2,086,230 acres of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds indicate that 99.9 percent were
unassessed; 97.9 percent impaired, and 72.6 percent needed TMDLs.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></span></a>
More specifically, the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/water10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">monitoring results</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> indicate 99.8 percent
of the agricultural supplies as impaired; cold fresh water 82.6 percent
impairment; commercial and sport fishing 80.2 percent impaired; estuarine
habitat 100 percent impaired; ground water recharge 100 percent impaired; municipal
and domestic supply 67.6 percent impaired, and wildlife habitat 100 percent
impaired. According to the report, the major causes of impairment, arsenic,
mercury, nutrients, DDT, salinity, selenium, bacteria, phosphorus, nitrogen,
and PCBs.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></span></a>
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/water10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/water10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND</span></span></a></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Monitoring Results of California Bays
and Estuaries in 2010: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Site-specific
targeted monitoring results of California bays and estuaries indicate that 58.1
percent of the 2,139 square miles were unassessed; 100 percent were impaired, and
99.5 percent of the threatened and impaired bays and estuaries were in need of
TMDLs. The data also indicate of the square miles assessed agricultural supply
was 100 percent impaired; cold freshwater habitat 98.5 percent impaired; commercial
and sport fishing 99.7 percent impaired, estuarine habitat 96.9 percent
impaired; marine habitat 91.2 percent impaired; municipal and domestic supply
100 percent impaired, warm freshwater habitat 99.9 percent impaired and
wetlands habitat 100 percent impaired. Government lists the causes of impairment”
from mercury, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PBSs), invasive species, and pesticides.
as non-point source discharges (includes, agricultural drainage); subsurface
mining; unknown sources; industrial point source discharge; atmospheric
deposition of toxics; ballast water releases; and municipal point source
discharges, and urban runoff/storm sewers.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[21]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Monitoring Results of California Wetland
in 2010: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Site-specific
targeted monitoring results of California 357,064 acres 99.9 percent were
unassessed; the 219.2 acres assessed were 100 percent impaired, and 100 percent
of those acres needed TMDLs. The data also indicate of the square miles
assessed agricultural supply was 100 percent impaired; cold freshwater habitat 100
percent impaired; commercial and sport fishing 100 percent impaired, estuarine
habitat 100 percent impaired; shellfish harvesting 100 percent impaired; water
contact recreation100 percent impaired, and warm freshwater habitat 100 percent
impaired.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[22]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CWA Strategies for Managing Water Quality:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> The
federal CWA contains two strategies for managing water quality. One, a
technology-based approach that envisions requirements to maintain a minimum
level of pollutant management using the best available technology, was the
great innovation of the 1972 Act. The other, a water quality-based approach,
relies on evaluating the condition of surface waters and setting limitations on
the amount of pollution that the water can be exposed to without adversely affecting
the beneficial uses if those waters. Section 303(d) bridges these two
strategies. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The CWA gives States the primary responsibility for protecting and
restoring surface water quality. Under the CWA, States that administer the CWA
must review, make necessary changes, and submit the CWA section 303(d) list to
the EPA. CWA Section 305(b) requires each State to report biennially to EPA, on
the conditions of surface water quality. The EPA has issued guidance to States
which requires the two reports to be integrated. For California, this combined
report is called the California 303(d)/305(b) Integrated Reports.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Section 303(d) of the
Clean Water Act requires states to identify all seriously polluted, or
"impaired," water bodies every two years. The states put each
polluted water body and its associated contaminants on what they call the
"</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/303d_lists2006_epa.shtml"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">303(d) list</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">." In California,
the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">State Water Resources
Control Board</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">
and nine </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Regional Water Boards</span></a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> maintain and update
the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/303d_lists2006_epa.shtml"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">303(d) list</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[25]</span></span></span></a>
Navigating the State Water Boards’ websites to ascertain the total number of
impaired water bodies was difficult, even with the assistance of Board
personnel. A water body may be assessed for several different uses. In order to
be considered "good," it must meet all the uses for which it was
assessed. It is considered "threatened" if it is meeting all assessed
uses but if water quality conditions appear to be declining. It is considered
"impaired" if any one of its assessed uses is not met,” according to
EPA.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-highlight: white;">What Happens
when a Water Body Is Placed on the 303(D) List?: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-highlight: white;">Once a water body is placed on the 303(d) list,
Regional Board staff evaluates the nature of the impairment and begins
developing a TMDL, if appropriate and necessary. For each TMDL
developed, State Water </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Board staff will also develop an implementation or water quality
control plan for each water body<span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;"> and associated pollutant/stressor on the list. The TMDL and the
implementation plan serve as the means to attain and maintain water quality
standards for the impaired water body. During each 303(d) listing cycle the
water bodies on the list are prioritized in order to facilitate scheduling and
budgeting to develop TMDLs and implementation plans.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-highlight: white;">State Water Board Did Not Adopt CWA Section 303(D)
List Until 2004</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">TMDLs were first required by the CWA in 1972.
EPA first issued regulations governing states development of TMDLS in 1985 but little
to ensure that states enforced them. In recent years, lawsuits alleging
inaction by EPA and the states have spurred increased attention<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b>to the development of TMDLs by imposing
judicial deadlines in some states.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The State Water Board did not adopt a Water Quality Control </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/ffed_303d_listingpolicy093004.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Policy</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> for
Developing California’s CWA Section 303(d) List, until September 2004. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The 2011EPA approved
TMDL </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">list</span></a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from which portions of this data was
extrapolated is the latest numbers available from the Boards’ </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2008-2010 report to EPA</span></a></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> (two-year reporting
cycle). <span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
updated TMDL list was due from the State Water Boards back in the year 2013 </span>for
the 2011-2012 reporting cycle.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[29]</span></span></span></a>
However, the public may not know just how bad things are statewide until 2017or
beyond, as state water officials failed to provide an updated 303(d) and 305(b)
lists<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>to EPA, and requested several
delays in submitting the data.<span><span style="color: black;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[30]</span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: black;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[33]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-highlight: white;">Four Decades
Later and More than $50 Billion Spent – State’s Clean And Safe Drinking Water
Acts Track-Record is in Question</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Although
billions of </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">dollars
have been expended for Clean and Safe Drinking Water programs; reportedly<u>
only a </u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.restoration_detail?p_state=CA&p_restored_cycle=2011&p_state_name=California"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">dozen</span></span></a></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> previously listed
water bodies have been restored in California since 2002</span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Request have been
made to the government to provide the total amount of money expended on CWA and
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) grant programs; however, the total dollar
amounts have yet to be received. Amount EPA allocated to States since 1972-2010
was $85 billion;<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a>
sources contend California received about 9% to 10% of the historical
appropriations, estimated to be about $7 to $8.5 billion for Clean Water
funding. However, m</span>ore than $50 billion of federal taxpayer funds and
state borrowed money have been spent under the guise of “Safe, Clean, and
Reliable Drinking water supply”. I<span style="color: black;">n California, the
amount of federal funds for CWA and SDWA programs pale in comparison to the
vast sums of funds the State gets from the issuance of voter approved General
Obligation (G.0.) bonds. Since the mid-1990s, a significant portion of the $26
billion in G.O. bonds approved has been used for CWA and SDWA programs and
related projects. The money to repay debt on G.O. bonds comes from the State’s
General Fund which receives revenue from the taxpayers. According to the State
Treasurer’s Office for every dollar borrowed in G.O. bonds cost a total of $2
in repayment.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref36" style="mso-endnote-id: edn36;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[36]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Since 1997, EPA has provided the California Safe Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund more than $1.5 billion for infrastructure projects
throughout the state, much of which was used to help disadvantaged communities.
EPA works with the California State Water Resources Control Board and other
local and state agencies to assist providers who are working with small
drinking water systems to enhance their technical, managerial, and financial
capability to reliably provide safe drinking water to communities.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref37" style="mso-endnote-id: edn37;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[37]</span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">However,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">California failed to
spend $455 million in federal safe-drinking-water funds and isn't adequately
managing the program that administers the money. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific
Southwest</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">,
sent a notice of noncompliance to the California Department of Public Health,
warning that if the state doesn't take corrective action within 60 days, EPA
may suspend grant payments to the program.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref38" style="mso-endnote-id: edn38;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[38]</span></span></span></a>
In response to the Notice of Noncompliance, the California Department of Public
Health developed a </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www,waterbaords.ca.gov/drinking_water/services/funding/documents/srf/SDWSRF%202014%20Report%25to%20Legislature.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Corrective Action Plan</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> for full compliance
by June 2016.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref39" style="mso-endnote-id: edn39;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[39]</span></span></span></a>
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">California Voters Pass $7.5 Billion Bond:</span></b><b><span style="color: #0c3c60; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">On November 4, 2014,
California voters approved a $7.5 billion injection of taxpayer funds to
address the state’s aging water infrastructure. The bond was the fourth largest
in California’s history. The bond, known as Proposition 1, is intended to help
California’s ability to cope with drought conditions, increase its water
storage capacity and protect drinking water<span style="color: #0c3c60;">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref40" style="mso-endnote-id: edn40;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #0c3c60; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[40]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Albeit,
California’s waterways remain contaminated, and, according to the data, the
problem is getting worse.<span style="color: #151515;"> Clean water is vital to
California’s public health, economy, recreation and wildlife. California has
done an excellent job of increasing the amount of water monitored.
Unfortunately, much of the data points in the wrong direction. The list of
impaired waters is a wake-up call to continue critical local and statewide work
needed to heal California’s damaged waters, according to </span>EPA.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref41" style="mso-endnote-id: edn41;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[41]</span></span></span></a>
Data indicate a synergistic<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref42" style="mso-endnote-id: edn42;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[42]</span></span></span></a>
problem with toxic in our water, in need of assessment.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref43" style="mso-endnote-id: edn43;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[43]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nationwide Funding Needs for Drinking and
Wastewater Infrastructure:<span style="color: #151515;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">In its
most recent needs surveys, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated
that the funding needs for drinking water infrastructure totaled $335 billion
((in 2007 dollars) and wastewater infrastructure needs totaled $298 billion (in
2008 dollars).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref44" style="mso-endnote-id: edn44;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[44]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">EPA Celebrates Safe Drinking Water Act 40<sup>TH</sup> Anniversary<span style="color: #266678;">:</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">On 16
December 2014, EPA Celebrates 40th Anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“</b>Every day more than 38 million
Californians rely on clean water for cooking, washing, and bathing,” said
Blumenfeld. “We have made incredible progress in improving water quality and
are tackling the remaining challenges so that every American will have access
to clean drinking water.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref45" style="mso-endnote-id: edn45;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[45]</span></span></span></span></a> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">California Underperforms in Productive Use of funds</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #266678; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">:</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">According to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>a
2004 Report of the California Performance Review,<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref46" style="mso-endnote-id: edn46;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[46]</span></span></span></a>
California ranked second nationally in total Revolving Fund federal grant
awards for wastewater treatment ($1.5 billion), but ranks 23rd for
productivity. Productivity is measured by the percentage of total financial
assistance provided (includes federal grant, state match, loan repayments, and
leveraging) to the amount of federal capitalization grant awarded from 1988 to
2003. For the Drinking Water Fund, California ranks first in total federal
grant awards ($360 million) among the states, but ranked 50th for productivity
from 1996 to 2003. California has provided $2.7 billion of Revolving Fund
assistance and $190 million of Drinking Water Fund assistance.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref47" style="mso-endnote-id: edn47;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[47]</span></span></span></a>
The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Performance report indicate that
California officials have a lack-luster track-record in productivity for its
expenditure of CWA and SDWA funds, failure to provide required updated 303(d),
and the vast amounts of water bodies yet to be assessed is indicative of a
system in need of innovative progress, oversight and regulatory reform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Disclaimer: The information in this article provides a
synopsis of California’s “progress” and efforts to adhere to the requirements
mandated in the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The information and findings
contained herein are prefaced entirely on the latest government approved data
and records. [Please be advised that </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: blue;">Planetary
Solutionaries</span></span></i></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> cannot attest to the credibility,
accuracy or validity of government data; questions/ambiguities in the data
should be discussed with its source.] </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">[Read more: Patrick Porgans, Porgans & Associates, and Lloyd
Carter, Save Our Streams conducted reports on the CWA, and Safe Drinking Water
Act. Part I: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/23/18737285.php"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Health and Safety Gaps in Safe
Drinking and Clean Water Acts</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">,<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref48" style="mso-endnote-id: edn48;" title=""><span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[48]</span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.lloydgcarter.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Part II</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.lloydgcarter.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">State and Regional Boards and State
Health Department run afoul of Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">.]<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_ednref49" style="mso-endnote-id: edn49;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">[49]</span></span></span></a>
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support for this Fact Sheet was provided by Save Our Streams and Patrick
Porgans & Associates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ENDNOTES</b>:</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">EPA Finalizes California’s List of
Polluted Waters, </span><b><i><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trends
Include 170% Increase in Toxicity Listings since 2006</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">,
</span></i></b><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Release Date: 10/11/2011, </span><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact Information: Nahal Mogharabi, </span></span><a href="mailto:mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov</span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> EPA, 2010 Integrated Report, All Waters Assessed; </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/impaired-waters/</span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Patrick Porgans, Planetary Solutionaries’ email
communication with Division of Water Quality staff, Subject: When does SWRCB
Intend to send 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 303(d) and 305(b) listing cycles to the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nov. 7, 2014.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/execsum.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/execsum.cfm</span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #151515; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">EPA, Information Concerning 2012 Clean Water Act Sections
303(d), 305(b), and 314 Integrated Reporting and Listing Decisions;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/ir_memo_2012.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/ir_memo_2012.cfm</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/execsum.cfm"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/execsum.cfm</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> State Water Board’s partial response to Porgans &
Associates request for Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts grant
appropriations, December 2014. </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#nonpointsource"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#nonpointsource</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#cleanwateract"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/glossary.cfm#cleanwateract</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Summary of Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §300f et
seq. (1974)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-safe-drinking-water-act"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-safe-drinking-water-act</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[14]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">News Release, EPA Finalizes California’s List of
Polluted Waters 11 October 2011; </span></span><a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_nation_cy.control?p_types=T</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA#APRTMDLS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
EPA, </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">California Water Quality Assessment Report,
Site-Specific Targeted Monitoring Results, California Lakes, Reservoirs, and
Ponds, 2010;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/water10/attains_index.control?p_CA#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/water10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#LAKE/RESERVOIR/POND</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" title=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid</i>, </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#BAY/ESTUARY"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#BAY/ESTUARY</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid</i>, </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#WETLANDS"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_index.control?p_area=CA#WETLANDS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[23]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">State Water Resources Control Board, The 303(d) List of
Impaired Water Bodies,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><a href="http://waterbaords.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/TMDLs/303dlist"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://waterbaords.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/TMDLs/303dlist</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">....</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/303d_lists2006_epa.shtml"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/303d_lists2006_epa.shtml</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">State Water Board, TMDL Program, Background, </span></span><a href="http://www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/background.shtml"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/background.shtml</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[27]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[28]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/hot_topics/strategic_plan/docs/final_draft_strategic_plan_update_090208.pdf</span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Victoria Whitney, Deputy Director, Division of Water Quality,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SWRCB letter to Ms. Jane Diamond, Director,
Water Division, U.S. EPA, Region<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9,
Subject: Clean Water Act Sections 303(s)305(b) Integrated Report Process Moving
Forward, July 15, 2013. </span></span><a href="http://www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/lttr_epa_integrrpt.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/lttr_epa_integrrpt.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[30]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Nick Martorano, Chief, Surface Water Quality
Assessment Unit, Division of Water Quality, SWRCB to Interested Parties,
Subject: California Integrated Report [Clean Water Act Sections 303(d) and
305(b) Update, Nov. 12, 2013. </span></span><a href="http://www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/integr_rpt_memo_final1113.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.waterbaords.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/integr_rpt_memo_final1113.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/ffed_303d_listingpolicy093004.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/docs/ffed_303d_listingpolicy093004.pdf</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid</i>, Patrick
Porgans, Planetary Solutionaries’ email communication with Division of Water
Quality staff, Nov. 7, 2014. </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn34" style="mso-endnote-id: edn34;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA&p_cycle=2010#APRTMDLS</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn35" style="mso-endnote-id: edn35;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[35]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Congressional Research Service, Water Infrastructure
Financing, History of EPA Appropriations</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/652976.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/652976.pdf</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn36" style="mso-endnote-id: edn36;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[36]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/bonds/debt/201410/authorized.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/bonds/debt/201410/authorized.pdf</span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn37" style="mso-endnote-id: edn37;" title=""><span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[37]</span></b></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EPA Celebrates 40th Anniversary
of the Safe Drinking Water Act, Release Date: 12/16/2014, Contact Information:
Nahal Mogharabi, telephone<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>213-244-1815,
</span><a href="mailto:Mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">Mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov</span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3881d73f4d4aaa0b85257359003f5348/6ffec69f2014acb385257db0007778b6!OpenDocument"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3881d73f4d4aaa0b85257359003f5348/6ffec69f2014acb385257db0007778b6!OpenDocument</span></span></a></h2>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn38" style="mso-endnote-id: edn38;" title=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[38]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/19/local/la-me-water-fund-20130420"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/19/local/la-me-water-fund-20130420</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn39" style="mso-endnote-id: edn39;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[39]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">California Department of Public Health, Division of
Drinking Water and Environmental Management, Report to the Legislature, Safe Drinking
Water State Revolving Fund and Source Water Protection Program, State Fiscal
Years 2010-11 and 2011-14, June 2014. </span></span><a href="http://www,waterbaords.ca.gov/drinking_water/services/funding/documents/srf/SDWSRF%202014%20Report%25to%20Legislature.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www,waterbaords.ca.gov/drinking_water/services/funding/documents//srf/SDWSRF%202014%20Report%to%20Legislature.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn40" style="mso-endnote-id: edn40;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[40]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.cleanwatercouncil.org/california.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.cleanwatercouncil.org/california.html</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn41" style="mso-endnote-id: edn41;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[41]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">EPA
Finalizes California’s List of Polluted Waters, </span><b><i><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trends Include 170% Increase in Toxicity
Listings since 2006.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Release
Date: 10/11/2011, </span><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact
Information: Nahal Mogharabi, </span></span><a href="mailto:mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov</span></span></a><span style="color: #151515; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn42" style="mso-endnote-id: edn42;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[42]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/15/9900.short"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.pnas.org/content/99/15/9900.short</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn43" style="mso-endnote-id: edn43;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[43]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/esd/bios/daughton/book-summary.htm"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.epa.gov/esd/bios/daughton/book-summary.htm</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn44" style="mso-endnote-id: edn44;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[44]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/662976.pdf"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/662976.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 April 2012. </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn45" style="mso-endnote-id: edn45;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[45]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/6FFEC69F2014ACB385257DB0007778B6"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/6FFEC69F2014ACB385257DB0007778B6</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16 December
2014</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn46" style="mso-endnote-id: edn46;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[46]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Note to reader: Attempts to locate an updated report by
the Governor’s California Performance Review team could not be found.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Pictures/CWAFS1NewsRelFIN.docx" name="_edn47" style="mso-endnote-id: edn47;" title=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[47]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><a href="http://cpr.ca.gov/cpr_report/Issues_and_Recommendations/Chapter_5_Resource_Conservation_and_Protection/RES06.html"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://cpr.ca.gov/cpr_report/Issues_and_Recommendations/Chapter_5_Resource_Conservation_and_Protection/RES06.html</span></span></a></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-7987951022041426282014-11-03T21:13:00.000-08:002014-11-03T21:13:23.286-08:00CALIFORNIA’S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR BONDAGE PROPOSITION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prop. 1 and 2 will cost taxpayers billions and benefit at least four
of California’s 90 billionaires</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">NEWS RELEASE – </span></span></b><a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Planetary Solutionaries</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information contact Patrick Porgans </span></span></b><a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">pp@planetarysolutionaries.org</span></span></b></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3 November 2014</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">California Governor Jerry Brown is up
for re-election, and, when he wins, will make history as the state’s
first fourth-term governor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ironically, Brown is not out
campaigning for his job. Instead, he is the major proponent of two “legislative
sponsored” ballot initiatives, </span></span><a href="http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/1/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Proposition 1</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> a water bond” and </span></span><a href="http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/2/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Proposition 2</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, a “rainy day” fund, which reportedly
have the overwhelming support of Democrats and Republicans.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brown‘s T.V. ads claim voter approval
of Prop. 1 and 2 will enable Californians to save water and money, and secure
the Golden State’s economic and financial future, increase water supply
reliability, and help it prepare for climate change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prop. 1 “Authorizes $7.5 billion in
general obligation (G.O.) bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects,
including surface and groundwater storage, ecosystem and watershed protection,
wetlands restoration, and drinking water protection. Voter approval of Proposition
1 would increase state bond (indebtedness) cost averaging $360 million annually
over 40 years,” according to the Secretary of State Office.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taxpayer groups claim that Brown is
plunging California deeper into debt. Some critics charge that Brown is
promoting his father’s and his legacy to complete the State Water Project
(SWP). Others contend issuance of the G.O. bonds is an ingenious financial
scheme to use the state’s tax-base, credit rating and natural resources to
promote and sustain the fortunes of California billionaires that benefit from
SWP, at the expense of taxpayers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brown is viewed as being fiscally
conservative; however, his support for the water bond would not save money it will
cost taxpayers ‘$15 billion in new debt. This debt obligation will be repaid
from the state’s heretofore deficit-ridden General Fund. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">California is already inundated with
a total of </span></span><a href="http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/bonds/debt.asp"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">$147.8 billion</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in G.O. bonds that have already been
authorized, according to the State Treasurer’s Office; repayment on that debt
is around $300 billion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Currently, there is $78.5 billion in
outstanding general obligation (G.O.) bond debt. Every dollar the State borrows
in G.O. bonds, it cost two dollars, according to the State Treasurer, Bill
Lockyer. Repayment costs on the outstanding G.O. bonds are in excess of $150
billion. In order to put the magnitude of this debt in perspective, the current
general fund expenditures to keep the state running is $107 billion. The annual
debt service to repay outstanding G.O. bonds is around $8 billion. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prop. 1 and 2 are inextricably tied
together. The “rainy day fund” requires annual transfer of state general fund
revenues to budget stabilization account. It also requires half the revenues be
used to repay state debts. Limits use of remaining funds to emergencies or
budget deficits. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Critics of both propositions view
them as a backstop that authorizes a legal way to issue more bonds and drain
money from the General Fund that could be used to fund other essential
services. Critics claim that the rainy day fund is just another way of soaking
the taxpayers to pay to provide water projects that benefit at least four of
California’s </span></span><a href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/budget-deficits-bond-debt-billionaires-brown-family-and-big-profits"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">90 billionaires</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> , who have a combined acreage in
excess of 720,000 acres that are in need of water and infrastructure. Water
realized from the bond act will be used to plant more permanent crops and
foster additional urban development in Central and Southern California.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Approval of both propositions would
enable Brown and his supporters to open the flood gates and promote more G.O. bonds
to cover the debt for the estimated $63 billion “Delta fix – twin tunnels”
(Bay-Delta Conservation Plan) and the High Speed Rail “Bullet Train”; initially
estimated to cost <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$40 billion, it is
currently at $68 billion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, the
California Supreme Court refused to hear the case involving the issuance of
bonds for the high speed rail, clearing the way for the state to sell up to </span></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/use-california-high-speed-rail-idUSL2N0SA3..."><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">$9 billion</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in G.O. bonds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Proposition 1 was initially conjured
up under former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Administration, as
was the Bullet Train and the Delta tunnels, all of which are being championed
by Brown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schwarzenegger, also viewed as
a fiscal conservative, was a strong advocate of G.O. bond indebtedness that
Californians will be repaying into the next century.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prior to the state’s current budget,
draconian budget cut, effecting safety-net services, education, jobs, parks and
other public services were slashed from the General Fund to offset G.O. bond
debt. The state’s credit and bond rating went down the drain, and major
investment firms lost interest in the bonds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brown kept Schwarzenegger’s Director
of Finance, Ana J. Matosantos. During the last two budgets of the
Schwarzenegger’s reign, and the first budget Brown approved, they had made
draconian budget cuts from the General Fund in excess of $100 billion during a
three-year period.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Things went from bad to worse when
the State had entered into a deal in a 2010 failed attempt to sell 11
properties in a sale-leaseback transaction to extract revenue from the state’s
real estate assets to provide revenue for the state’s budgetary shortfalls. This
deal was challenged in the courts, and received a scathing review from critics.
A </span></span><a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2010/edu/sale_leaseback/sale_leaseback_042710.aspx"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">report</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> on the details of the sale was
published by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). G.O. bonds are
backed by the full faith and credit of the State, which has the authority to
sell public assets to cover the state’s debt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While it is not the intent to
discount Brown’s assertions, critics claim it is a matter of interpretation.
For example, since the mid 1990’s, more than $19 billion in G.O. bonds have
been authorized for water supply reliability, safe and clean water programs,
water for fish, drought relief, and habitat improvement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Voters were assuaged to approve those bonds
because they had politicians’ assurances that it would resolve the very water
shortages the state is currently experiencing, since the mid-1990s. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Government records attest to the fact
that California has expended vast sums of money on water development projects
in the past century. The Golden State has the most developed water storage and
delivery system in the United States.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In fact, it was Brown’s father,
Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, Sr., who successfully launched the California State
Water Project (SWP), by getting voters to approve a $1.75 billion G.O. bond, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back in November 1960, to build the Project
that sold to the public on the promise it “would pay for itself.” </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The concept was prefaced on the
assertion that SWP water and power contractors would be obligated to repay all
of the reimbursable cost for the SWP. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
record does not support that assertion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Conversely, the data indicate that
project has not, nor will it ever pay for itself. More than a half-of-century
later, there is still $392.9 million in outstanding debt on the SWP $1.75
billion bonds. “Completion of the SWP is now estimated to be more than $50
billion, which does not include all of the costs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SWP contract require that contractors
pay certain annual cost even if they do not receive water; the revelation of
the SWP’s economic plight surface at the end of the 1987-1992 droughts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1994, Senate hearings revealed that the SWP
was not paying for itself and bond syndicates were troubled about the financial
integrity of the Project. Those findings and concerns were affirmed by testimony
from SWP agricultural contractors asserting that they were on the verge of
default. The crisis prompted the state to resort to issuing commercial paper to
make good on the SWP’s financial obligations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Insiders contend that Proposition 1 is just another in a longstanding series of publicly subsidized bailout for SWP contractors. Governor Brown, Sr. conceded that the SWP was knowingly underfinanced and contractually over committed (“sold” more water than it could deliver), since its inception.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Whichever is the case, the final
determination of the fate of Prop. 1 and 2 will be determined by the voters on
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-77611742668178941742014-08-04T00:40:00.003-07:002014-08-04T00:41:03.994-07:00Note to Reader: Regarding BDCP Doomsday article<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The links that have double-underlines were not included in the article, they are from some other unknown source, and should be IGNORED.</div>
Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-38462707160287368602014-08-04T00:23:00.000-07:002014-08-04T00:24:04.592-07:00BDCP Doomsday Plan Ends Public Comment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 31 July 2014</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Five Years in-the-making Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) public comment period closed</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On July 29 the 228 day public </span></span></b><a href="http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/PublicReview.aspx"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">comment-period closed</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> on the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS).</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Public Comments:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Submitted by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Patrick Porgans & Associates</i> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/A</i></b>) on behalf of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Planetary Solutionaries </i>(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PS</i></b>), a nonprofit organization. Neithe<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">r t</b>ime nor resources permit detailed comments pertinent to the contents of the estimated $200,000,000+, 20,000-page draft BDCP and draft EIR/EIS, to do so could be construed as giving the report and the premise upon which it is being promoted a relative degree of credence; that is not the case. Rather, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/A</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PS</i></b> focus is on the “BIG Picture” to address the concept of the plan and the historical track-record of government’s repetitive deception as to the “real cost” of water projects, and its failures to protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the San Francisco Bay Estuary over the course of the last century, and for its success in the destruction of other invaluable delta estuaries. Therefore, we commence by referencing </span></span><a href="http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BDCP’s lead-off quotations</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, which are the embodiment of a myriad of false assurances preface upon preconceived misconceptions espoused by the very government entities responsible for the existing and deplorable conditions of the Bay-Delta Estuary. </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The BDCP is a <u>comprehensive conservation strategy</u> aimed at <u>protecting </u>dozens of species of fish and wildlife, while <u>permitting the reliable operation of California’s two biggest water delivery projects</u>. </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why BDCP?</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Securing California Water Supplies – </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Ecosystem</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Planning for the Future”</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Comment:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> State and federal officials have had more than a half-of-century, and expended tens-of-billions of public funds in a failed attempt to protect and restore the Bay-Delta Estuary and to ensure the reliability of the State’s water supply. </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1957-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The California Water Plan. “California is presently faced with problems of a highly critical nature --- the need for further control, protection, conservation and distribution of her most vital resource---water… Unless corrective action is taken---and taken immediately---the consequences may be disastrous.”</i></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[2]</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Source:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>Department of Water Resources<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2009- </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Gov. Schwarzenegger,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“California’s Water</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Crisis We Can’t Afford to Ignore</b>.” However, as I have already said, when a crisis is at its worst the opportunity to reform it is at is greatest and this is why we had a good shot this time,</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Association of California Water Agencies.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[3]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2010</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Fifty-three years and an estimated $50 billion later<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> -- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Right now we have the most unreliable water system we ever had in California…”</b></i></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[4]</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Source:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Lester Snow, Director, Department of Water Resources.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2012 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">- Gov. Jerry Brown’s comment on the BDCP “I want to get “s**t done.</i></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[5]</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Comment: More aptly stated; the BDCP is a comprehensive strategy which if implemented would be the final <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">coup de gras</i> for the last largest remaining ecosystem of its nature on the West Coast of the Americas. Keeping in mind, its predecessor, the Colorado River Delta fell prey to “Manifest Destiny," which included expansion of the West and the Bureau of Reclamation’s conquest and damming of the Colorado River Basin and in so doing destroy one of the largest Delta estuaries in the world.</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until the early 20<sup>th</sup> Century the Colorado River ran free from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado southwest into Mexico, where it flowed into the Gulf of California. Significant quantities of nourishing silt from throughout the Colorado River Basin were carried downstream, creating the vast Colorado River Delta. </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prior to the construction of major dams along its route, the Colorado River fed one of the largest desert estuaries in the world. Spread across the northernmost end of the Gulf of California, the Colorado River delta’s vast riparian, freshwater, brackish, and tidal wetlands once covered 7,810 km<sup>2</sup> (1,930,000 acres) and supported a large population of plant, bird, and marine life. Because most of the river’s flow reached the delta at that time, its freshwater, silt, and nutrients helped create and sustain a complex system of estuarial wetlands that provided feeding and nesting grounds for birds, spawning habitat for fish and marine mammals. Today, conditions in the delta have changed. … The construction of Hoover Dam in the 1930s marked the beginning of the modern era for the Colorado River Delta. … The loss of freshwater flows to the delta over the twentieth century has reduced delta wetlands to about 5 percent of their original extent, and nonnative species have compromised the ecological health of much of what remains.</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Comment:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The “management and operation” of two of the California’s largest water projects, the State Water Project (SWP) and the federal Central Valley Project (CVP), are the primary factors contributing to the precipitous decline and demise of anadromous and pelagic species dependent on the ecological sustainability of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Collectively, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) delegated with the “responsibility” to operate and “manage” the SWP, the federal Bureau of Reclamation “responsible” for the operation of the CVP, and the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), entrusted with the authority for permitting the use and distribution of SWP and CVP water are at fault for California’s government-induced water crisis effecting the Bay-Delta Estuary.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Water rights are property rights, but their holders </span></span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.shtml"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">do not own the water itself.</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> They possess the right to use it. The exercise of some water rights requires a permit or license from the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), whose objective is to ensure that the State’s waters are put to the best possible use, and that the public interest is served</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The BDCP is an extenuation of the underfinanced and contractually overcommitted SWP, which was sold to the public in 1960 as a project that “would pay-for-itself”; i.e., the recipients of the water and power would pay.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/A</i></b> completed a series of fact-finding reports, forensic accounting of the SWP financing and repayment obligations, which served as the basis for a series of Senate hearings</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> that substantiated the fact that the SWP has not, nor will it ever pay for itself as promised.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[11]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Furthermore, the facts revealed that although DWR officials and Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown, Sr. assured the public the SWP would cost $1.75 billion that was never true, which former Governor Ronald Reagan acknowledge during his term in office.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[12]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The capital cost on the SWP has exceeded $6.5 billion, and there is still about $350 million in outstanding debt on the initial $1.75 billion. Although there is no definitive amount as to what it will cost to “complete” the SWP, estimates exceed $50 billion (includes principal and interest). Then, as is now, the government misinformed the public of the real cost of the SWP. (Refer to Attachment A for an overview of SWP financial and contractual shortcomings that have led up to the BDCP.)</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In what would be the biggest water supply </span></span></i><a href="http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">project</span></span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> constructed in California in half a century, the state is proposing to build a large diversion point on the Sacramento River in the north delta and send the water through two 35-mile tunnels to aqueducts serving the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. By adding the diversion point and restoring more than 100,000 acres of delta habitat, the south-of-the-delta urban and agricultural water contractors who have promised to pay for much of the project are hoping to get relief from environmental restrictions on their deliveries. </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order for BDCP to receive permits as a Habitat Conservation Plan<span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[15]</span></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and a Natural Communities Conservation Plan<span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[16]</span></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Federal and State laws require evidence that there is assured funding for the habitat restoration component of BDCP. BDCP is assuming that Federal and State taxpayers will pay just under $4 billion for the capital costs of purchasing and restoring upwards of 145,000 acres of land.<span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[17]</span></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Department of Water Resources Director Cowin described the estimated cost of the BDCP plan as $24.5 billion, of which $14.5 billion would be for conveyance (the tunnels). The remaining costs are for habitat and operations and maintenance costs, Cowin said.</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[18]</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Comment</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">: An estimated $6.5 billion has been spent on Delta and Delta-related habitat and wetlands improvements, and $500 million expended on buying water for fish! Those expenditures were primarily from the issuance of General Obligation Bonds sales, which are repaid with interest from the heretofore State’s deficit-ridden General Fund. In addition, vast expenditures of public funds were used in government’s failed attempt to double anadromous fish populations that migrate through the Bay-Delta Estuary. Fish populations are worst now than at any other time in history. Expending another $10 billion on habitat improvement and taking 145,000 acres of Delta land out of production is unjustifiable. It is estimated that government already has more than 100,000 acres of Delta lands in its possession. SWP and CVP will benefit from the acquisition of those lands, as it will free up hundreds-of-thousands of acre-feet of water when those lands are no longer irrigated. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In the latest episode in the sordid saga of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan "BDCP" to build the peripheral tunnels, two environmental groups revealed on June 20 </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">[2104]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> that even an economist hired by BDCP officials won't sign off on the controversial project. </i></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. David Sunding, an economist on the faculty of the University of California-Berkeley and a principal with The Brattle Group, said at the recent Continuing Legal Education Water Law Conference in San Diego that "given the financial uncertainties if he were a water agency, he would not sign off" on the BDCP, according to a news release </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The recently released statements and documents from BDCP on the costs, and who will pay, are more of the same disingenuous statements that they have been making throughout the life of the project," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta (RTD). "These unsubstantiated claims show how desperate BDCP officials are to greenwash this project for the public. Documents from public record requests, and statements from their own officials and water agency officials, reveal that the project will be closer to $67 billion in today's dollars, before cost over-runs." </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Independent University of the Pacific economist Dr. Jeff Michael concludes that the average water ratepayer will end up paying between $40 and $80 per person per year.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">[19]</span></b> </span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/2014/06/03/reviewing-the-science-of-the-bay-delta-conservation-plan/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Report of the Independent Science Board</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (ISB) on their review of the BDCP’s EIR/EIS – May 2014</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many of the impact assessments hinge on overly optimistic expectations about the feasibility, effectiveness, or timing of the proposed conservation actions, especially habitat restoration:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Is the scientific basis for the analyses and for the draft EIR/EIS, is it sufficient, is it good enough to support the decisions that are going to have to be made? There are overly optimistic expectations about the feasibility, effectiveness, and timing of the mitigation measures of the conservation actions, especially habitat restoration</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The project is encumbered by uncertainties that are considered inconsistently and incompletely; modeling has not been used effectively to bracket a range of uncertainties or to explore how uncertainties may propagate:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The project has uncertainties encumbering it and one of the problems is that the level of uncertainty that is there is inconsistently applied, so some have more uncertainty, some have less, but it’s not been used</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,” he said. “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They haven’t used modeling to effectively bracket a range of uncertainties, or how to explore how uncertainties may propagate through the system as they compound and cascade</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The potential effects of climate change and sea-level rise on the implementation and outcomes of BDCP actions are not adequately evaluated:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When we asked DWR about that, their response was that the EIR/EIS process is to look at the effect of the project on the environment, but not the effect of the environment on the project. And while that may be the legal context, that’s just a big science issue that applies to levee failures, floods, and invasive species – the effects of those actions on the project itself, we think needs to be considered</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Insufficient attention is given to linkages and interactions among species, landscapes, and the proposed actions themselves:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We don’t think there’s enough attention given to that, he said. </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The analyses largely neglect the influences of downstream effects on San Francisco Bay, levee failures, and environmental effects of increased water availability for agriculture and its environmental impacts in the San Joaquin Valley and downstream</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In the analyses, they largely neglect the influences of downstream effects on San Francisco Bay. They don’t consider it because its outside the project area and the defined scope. </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They don’t consider the effects of increased or altered water reliability on agriculture outside the region and what that might do to water quality issues, etc</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Details of how </span></b></span><a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/glossary/adaptive-management/" title="Glossary: adaptive management"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">adaptive management</span></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> will be implemented are left to a future management team without explicit prior consideration of (a) situations where </span></span></b><a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/glossary/adaptive-management/" title="Glossary: adaptive management"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">adaptive management</span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> may be inappropriate or impossible to use, (b) contingency plans in case things do not work as planned, or (c) specific thresholds for action:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The details of </span></i></span><a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/glossary/adaptive-management/" title="Glossary: adaptive management"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">adaptive management</span></span></i></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and how it’s going to be implemented are just not there</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,” said Dr. Collier. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The presentation, despite clear writing and an abundance of information and analyses, makes it difficult to compare alternatives and evaluate the critical underlying assumptions.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s a lot of good writing and a lot of good content, but we suffered equally as well as the effects analysis panel with the inability to get to the information we needed</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,” he said. “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">… We haven’t seen any attempts to undertake some of the suggestions that we made early on in the process</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We think BDCP science needs to be integrated with the Delta Science Plan</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,” he said. “</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It really provides a framework for trying to effectively use </span></i></span><a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/glossary/adaptive-management/" title="Glossary: adaptive management"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">adaptive management</span></span></i></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in supporting decision making and management actions, so we think that it needs to be a concerted effort, and much like in the state Water Action Plan they now say, the Delta Science Plan, we will do our best to adhere to that, we need to see that same level of commitment for BDCP</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” Read more </span></span><a href="http://mavensnotebook.com/2014/06/03/reviewing-the-science-of-the-bay-delta-conservation-plan/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://mavensnotebook.com/2014/06/03/reviewing-the-science-of-the-bay-delta-conservation-plan/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">P/A explained to ISB at its May 2014 meeting that the ultimate decisions on the BDCP will not be prefaced on "real science", rather as history attests, decisions will be made based on “political science.”]</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Excerpts from Patrick Porgans & Associates White Paper: Cracking California’s Water Code</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Today’s “water crisis” got started 50 years ago</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">in the form of a General Obligation (GO) Bond measure, authorizing the funding and construction of the California State Water Project (SWP). Unfortunately, the SWP, which was made possible by an ingenious funding scheme, has three major flaws: (<b>1</b>) officials willfully and knowingly misinformed the public of its true costs,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[i]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> (<b>2</b>) contracted out more water than it could provide (in certain water-year types),</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[ii]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> “paper” water, a (<b>3</b>) it was sold under the false pretense that it would cost $1.75 billion and would “pay-for-itself”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[iii]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> – it never has.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[iv]</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> In order to stabilize default by SWP agricultural contractors, and to keep the SWP “solvent” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">DWR and the contractors devised the 1994 Monterey Agreement, which, among other ingenious schemes. established a “Trust Fund” that sets aside $10 million a year, beginning in 1997, from the earned interest off of California Water Fund (obtained from the sale of publicly owned tideland oil reserves and General Fund allocations), and hundreds of millions of dollars of this same money will be distributed to SWP urban contractors to do what they want with this money. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Monterey Agreement increased the reliability of existing water supplies; providing strong financial management for the SWP; and increased water management flexibility; proving more tools for local water agencies to maximize use of existing facilities.</span></i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[v]</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> (Refer to page 59, Monterey Agreement Another Backdoor Agreement in the “Era of Transparency – composed behind closed doors.”) </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Government Water Projects at the Crux of California’s “Water Crisis” Inundating the State in an Era of Bonded Indebtedness: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ironically, the SWP remains at the epicenter of the “crisis” that continues to cost Californians tens-of-billions of dollars of debt from the sale of GO Bond funds – bailouts. Since its inception, the SWP has been inundated with a series of unrelenting crises and the subject of decades of Legislative hearings in failed attempts to reconcile its inherent shortcomings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As early as <b>1963</b> DWR recognized the SWP was going to be short of funds and resorted to issuing millions in revenue bonds. <b>1967: </b>Governor Reagan’s Water Task Force reported SWP had a $300 million to $600 million deficiency.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[vi]</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1970</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">: DWR appeals to Legislature for passage of Proposition 7; claimed that if it fail to pass it would cause the shutdown of SWP construction, causing a financial disaster.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[vii]</span> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1985</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">: DWR reports agricultural contractors may not be able to pay their bills.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[viii]</span> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1991</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">: DWR exhausted SWP reserve funds to buy water to keep agricultural contractors solvent.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[ix]</span> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1993</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">: DWR resorted to Legislature to pass urgency law to keep SWP financially afloat, issues $150 million in commercial paper notes, via Goldman Sachs, to buy water.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[x]</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> through <b>2006:</b> more than $19.6 billion in GO water and water-related bonds were approved,</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[xi]</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a significant portion had been used to keep the SWP afloat - Déjà vu. The interest payments on those GO bonds cost taxpayers another $10 billion. In November <b>2014</b> voters may be asked to approve yet another $11 billion GO bond Act bailout, being promoted under the guise it will ensure the State’s water supply reliability, shore up its aging infrastructure, and restore the Bay-Delta Estuary. However, according to the Governor and other officials, those funds are only a “down Payment” or leverage for yet another $30 to $40 billion to “move forward” with other components of the project!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[xii]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Every time we’ve had a problem in the financing of the State Water Project, we’ve tried to take action to solve the problem,…”</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[xiii]</span></span></b></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is apparent that if this bailout cycle is not reconciled, it will continue to add to the State’s ever-increasing debt load, depletion of General Fund revenues, increase cost for State’s borrowing, adversely effecting its credit rating, which was cut to the lowest of all 50 states,</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[xiv]</span> and jeopardized the Golden State’s once promising economic prosperity as eighth-biggest economy</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[xv]</span> in the world.</span><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">[xvi]</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because of California’s persistent fiscal problem, bond rating agencies assigned it the lowest rating; a few notches above junk bonds. </span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/BDCP_Doomsday_Plan.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[xvii]</span></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-18174446975389145112014-04-07T12:22:00.000-07:002014-04-07T12:30:25.696-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="yiv1318499538Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396834479726_2754" style="color: #242424; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1318499538Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396834479726_2753" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jerry Brown, one of the worst Governors for fish, wildlife and the environment in California history, on March 28 appointed Michael Eaton, 62, of Galt, to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, where he has served since 2010.</span></span><br />
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<span class="yiv1318499538Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396834479726_2760" style="color: #242424; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Eaton headed the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, known for its support of corporate greenwashing campaigns in California, as it was funding the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative to create so-called "marine protected areas" that don't protect the ocean. (<a href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/big-corporate-money-behind-fake-marine-protection" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396834479726_2761" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/big-corporate-money-behind-fake-marine-protection</a>) </span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-38508704098912306542014-04-03T15:13:00.001-07:002014-04-03T22:59:08.870-07:00Epic 500 year drought exacerbated and exaggerated by water officials - Part One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Public
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Immediate
Release 3 April 2014</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Patrick Porgans, </span><a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">www.planetarysolutionaries.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">SACRAMENTO,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Water
officials’ and scientists’ claims that the Golden State is in the grips of an
epic 500 year drought is not supported by the facts. Government documents show back
in January that this year’s drought was not the worst in 500 years.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“We
are on track for having the worst </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/california-drought-effects-500-years_n_4647529.html"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drought in 500 years</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,”</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">500 years,” said B.
Lynn Ingram, Paleoclimatologist, professor of earth and planetary sciences at
the University of California, Berkeley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
story was released on January 30.Although an effort was made to reach Ingram to
ascertain the scientific data to support her contention, she has yet to
respond. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Contact
was also made with NOAA’s </span>World Data Center<strong> </strong>for<strong> </strong>Paleoclimatology, Boulder, Colorado<strong> </strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">to ascertain quantifiable
data to validate Ingram’s assertion. Based upon a discussion with personnel
assigned to the Center for Paleoclimatology, there is not enough data to say
with certainty that this is the worst drought in 500 years.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Data
obtained from the California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) Public
Information Office indicate that, at best, the state may be experiencing the
fourth driest water year in recorded history. (A water-year is measured by the
Sacramento River Unimpaired runoff dating back to 1906 and, by definition,
begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 of the following year; currently,
we are in water year 2014.) DWR officials depend heavily on Sacramento River
watershed runoff to meet State Water Project demands.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In
DWR’s February 1 report , Bulletin 120, DWR officials’ forecasted water year
2014 for the Sacramento River Unimpaired Runoff at 6.1 million acre-feet (MAF).
One-acre foot of water contains 325,851 gallons of water. Critics point out
that when DWR’s forecast was made we were only 16 weeks into the water year.
However, in DWR’s March 1, 2014 report showed that this water year forecast at
6.2 MAF, stating it as the fourth driest on record. <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The March rains will require water officials to go back
to the drawing board, casting doubts on the motives and severity of this
drought.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Contrary
to Ingram’s and water officials forecast, public records show that the driest recorded
water year occurred in 1977 (5.1 million acre-feet (MAF), followed by 1924 (5.7
MAF), and 1931 (6.1 MAF); data extrapolated from a 2010 DWR report</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">According
to the record, the worst set of extended drought events occurred during
1929-1934, the 1976-1977 and 1987-1992 period, respectfully, according to DWR’s
Figure 1. The 1976-77 and 1987-1992 drought occurred post SWP construction, as
indicated in DWR’s graph, Figure 1, </span><a href="http://www.weathermodification.org/LasVegaspresentations/Roos.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Comparison
of Previous Droughts</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.</span></div>
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Operate on Flawed Computer Models </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
facts contained in the public record do not support government officials and
scientists assertion that the Golden State is currently in the grips of an epic
500 years drought. Their comments are prefaced on tree rings and limited
Paleoclimatological information and computer-generated models. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The question is how accurate are models water
officials’ use for management and operation of the State Water Project (SWP).
Ironically, it is common knowledge that “</span><a href="http://californiawaterblog.com/tag/jay-lund/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">All models
are wrong</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, some are useful,” according to an article published by </span><a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/docs/exhibits/swrcb/lund.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Professor Jay Lund, UCD</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, quoting statistician </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">George Box</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Dependence on tree-ring records have
intrinsic shortcomings, including </span><a href="http://www.wsl.ch/info/mitarbeitende/cherubin/download/D_ArrigoetalGlobPlanCh2008.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">divergence problems</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Tree-ring-proxies-divergence-problem.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">proxies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> applied in the models. Furthermore, the
models failed to identify California’s worse drought of record in recent history
(post SWP), which occurred in the 1976-1977 water years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Every day this drought goes on we are going
to have to </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us/severe-drought-has-us-west-fearing-worst.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">tighten
the screws</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> on what people are doing” said Gov. Jerry Brown, who was
governor during the last </span><a href="http://www.water.ca.gov/watertransfers/docs/9_drought-1976-77.pdf" title="State report"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">major drought here, in 1976-77</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Although
California has experienced its share of notable droughts since 1906, officials
could not provide a drought contingency plan, when requested last month; instead
they are holding public workshop to get the peoples input on what to do about
the drought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Officials made it clear that there is
no universal definition of when a drought begins or ends. Drought is a gradual
phenomenon, according to DWR.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
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<a href="http://weathermodification.org/LasVegasPresentations/Roos.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Figure 1 and Figure 2</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> failed to list the driest individual water years, 1977 (5.1 million acre-feet (MAF), 1924 (5.7 MAF), 1931 (6.1 MAF), respectfully. however, the recent series of storms experienced in March may require DWR to amend that forecast. Figure 4 does not include the 1987-92 droughts, which was comparable to the six-year drought event that occurred during the 1929-1934 six-year droughts, as shown in Figure 1.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Values in Figure 2 represent the estimated unimpaired flow for the Sacramento Valley floor and the minor streams from the Stony Creek drainage area to the Cache Creek drainage area, from the Cache Creek drainage area to the mouth of the Sacramento River, and from the Feather River drainage area to the American River drainage area. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monthly Average Runoff of Sacramento River</span> </span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Figure 3, provides the average runoff for the Sacramento River
system, which illustrates that March, April, and May as three of the five highest
months that runoff occurred historically. All the numbers are in millions of
acre-feet of water.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Frutiger-Light","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Frutiger-Light;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Figure 4, indicates the water year in precipitation, when
comparing the severity of historical drought. Critics point out that this is
where DWR officials began to compare apples with oranges, as it is common
knowledge in the water world water years are measured in acre-feet.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cloud
of Doubt Rising as to the Severity of the Drought</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In
the first year of the 1976-77 droughts, DWR officials delivered 600,000
acre-feet of water, stored at the SWP’s Oroville reservoir, to agricultural
contractors in Kern County for $2.95 delivered, even though it was warned that
was not a prudent management decision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">During
the 1987-92 droughts, DWR delivered record-breaking amounts of water to its
contractors in central and southern California in the first four years, playing
the odds that the drought would not continue. DWR officials water management
and delivery practices exacerbated the severity of the droughts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">DWR officials responded to the dry conditions
by exporting and delivering significant amounts of water to SWP contractors; i.e.,
in 2010 it delivered 2.44 million-acre feet (MAF), in 2011, 3.55MAF, and in
2012, 2.84 MAF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In light of all the recorded data
questions are being raised as to the motive behind Gov. Brown’s, water
officials' and Ingram’s claim that this is the worst drought in 500 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Critics claim that it is all about promoting more water development and bilking the
public out of hundreds of millions of dollars for drought relief giveaway
grants, the majority of those funds is borrowed money that is given to some of
the biggest water districts and landowners in the state. Back during the
2007-2009 “drought" DWR held grant giveaway meetings at the <span id="goog_99494255"></span>Irvine RanchWater District’s Duck Club<span id="goog_99494256"></span>.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Figure <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Drought
Proclamation Opens Floodgate Releasing $870 Million in Public Funds</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">DWR
personnel claim that this is the third dry year in a row, , includes water year
2012, 2013, and 2014, yet it was not until mid-January that California Governor
Jerry Brown issued a </span><a href="http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18368"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Proclamation</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> ,
declaring<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the drought as a State of
Emergency.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“With
California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state
history, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today [January 17] proclaimed a </span><a href="http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18368"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">State of Emergency</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> and
directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these
drought conditions.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Corporate
media ran with the “500-year drought” story, heightening public fears and
uncertainties, claiming that the drought will devastate California’s $44.7
billion agricultural industry and result in massive </span><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/how-californias-500-year-drought-destroying-lives-hardworking-farmers"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">farm-related
jobs losses</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, higher unemployment rates, rise in food
prices, relaxation of water quality standards and environmental protections.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
situation apparently was so bad that President Obama flew in on Air Force One
to Fresno and observed the devastation personally and immediately pledged </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/us/politics/obama-to-announce-aid-for-drought-racked-california.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">$183million</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">
from existing federal funds for drought relief programs in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile,
Gov. Brown’s Administration opened the floodgates and is doling out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-usa-drought-california-idUSBREA2010G20140302"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">$<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK "http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-usa-drought-california-idUSBREA2010G20140302"</span>687<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK
"http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-usa-drought-california-idUSBREA2010G20140302"</span>million</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> in
drought relief grants using borrowed money that will ultimately cost state
taxpayers in excess of $1 billion in new debt to offset the devastation.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
largest share of the drought relief package - $549 million - comes from
accelerated spending of General Obligation (G.O.) bond money voters previously
approved in two ballot propositions. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">"This
legislation (appropriating drought relief funds) marks a crucial step - but
Californians must continue to take every action possible to conserve
water," Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">As
of late, government officials are holding hearings laying out plans for a new
$4 billion reservoir, when the Golden State is already inundated with $74.6
billion in G.O. </span><a href="http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/publications/2013dar.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">bond <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">HYPERLINK "http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/publications/2013dar.pdf"</span>debt</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, of
which $19.6 billion was expended on water- and drought-related give away
grants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">According
to the state treasurer, Bill Lockyer, it cost $2 for every dollar borrowed
using G.O. bonds. The money to repay the bonds comes from the state’s
heretofore deficit-ridden General Fund.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ironically,
California agriculture experienced a nearly three percent increase in the sales
value of its products in 2012. The state’s 80,500 farms and ranches received a
record $44.7 billion for their output in 2012, up from $43.3 billion in 2011
and $37.9 billion during 2010, according to the latest published government
reports. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Almond acreage during the period of 2009
through 2012 increased from 720,000 acres to 780,000 acres in 2012; averagin</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">g to
</span><a href="http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_Subject/result.php?9C01D6A9-3598-3531-B94D-EC54D64F7D74&sector=CROPS&group=FRUIT%20%26%20TREE%20NUTS&comm=ALMONDS"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">20,000
acres a decade</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.<span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">.</span></span><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Between 1995 and 2010,
almond acreage expanded from 440,000 to 870,000 acres in 2010; increasing cash
receipts to growers from $800 million to more than $4 billion, respectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Using
a conservative average of 3.4 acre-feet of water per acre to grow almonds
indicate that the demand on California’s developed water supply and groundwater
would have increased by about 1.36 million acre-feet of water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
amount of water required to irrigate just the 870,000 acres of almonds planted
would require an estimated 2.9 MAF of water that is about 800,000 acre-feet
more than the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California provides
annually to 18 million urban water users in its service area. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Essentially,
DWR and SWP agricultural contractors gambled on the odds that even if the drought
continued, they would get the unsuspecting public to bail them out by issuing
G.O. bonds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Because
DWR has not produced all of the pertinent information, it is difficult to
account for the extent and gravity of this drought. Currently, Planetary
Solutionaries (PS) is conducting a forensic accounting of the “management” of
the SWP going back to the worst drought experienced since the SWP became
operable. PS’ findings will be continued in Part two of this series. ###</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Part
Two: Government officials dump floodwater during the “Epic 500-year Drought</span></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 202.85pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In the midst of a “500-year drought” it is
difficult to fathom why California water officials would dump million gallons
of “floodwaters” out of State Water Project (SWP) reservoirs in southern
California, while drought police issue warning letters, and stiff fines to
homeowners in the water-rich north state for watering lawns and washing cars.
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<a href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/california%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cdust-bowl-drought%E2%80%9D-really-never-happened-officially-over"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/california%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cdust-bowl-drought%E2%80%9D-really-never-happened-officially-over</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><strong>Duck club link</strong> <a href="http://www.california%20progressreport.com/site/budget-deficits-bond-debt-billionaires-brown-family-and-big-profits" target="_blank">http://www.california%20progressreport.com/site/budget-deficits-bond-debt-billionaires-brown-family-and-big-profits</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">About the Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">
Patrick Porgans completed 75-fact finding volumes on water- and drought-related
issues in the Western United States. As a Forensic Accountant, he conducted 15
volumes that assessed every major aspect of the California State Water Project
(SWP). Those reports were the subject of legislative hearings that brought to
light the intrinsic shortcomings of the Project and the $10s of billions of
dollars in cost overruns that have been paid for by the taxpayers that the law
requires be repaid by SWP contractors. You can view his work at
www.planetarysolutionaries.org or go to </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/www.linkedin.com/in/patrickporgans/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">www.linkedin.com/in/patrickporgans/</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.planetarysolutionaries.org/">Epic 500 year drought is not supported by the facts</a></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-28463599878086576912013-10-21T16:31:00.001-07:002013-10-21T16:31:21.901-07:00Is Jerry Brown Running Scared?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33145" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">Over 60 people, including indigenous leaders, environmentalists and labor activists, gathered at the Le Parc Hotel in San Francisco on Thursday, October 17 from 5:30 to 7 pm to protest the Blue Green Alliance’s honoring of Governor Jerry Brown with its “Right Stuff” Award.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33147" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">Faced with the protest condemning his anti-environmental policies, Brown apparently decided to back out from receiving the award. In particular, the protest focused on Brown’s support for fracking, a massive twin tunnels project and his emissions trading scheme.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33196" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">A video of the protest is available <a href="http://www.facebook.com/damien.luzzo/posts/10151866169470318#!/photo.php?v=10201481121482680&set=o.692888177406489&type=2&theater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c81727;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1382396098_1">here</span></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33151" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">The protest was organized by a group of individuals unaffiliated with national environmental organizations who were galvanized by Brown’s most recent assault on the environment: the green lighting of fracking in California.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33197" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">“Jerry Brown ignored the majority of Californians and the rank and file of the Democratic Party who support a moratorium on fracking,” said organizer Damien Luzzo. “He signaled that he would not sign any of the moratorium bills and only signed the already weak SB4, after he gutted it at the 11th hour at the behest of Big Oil.”</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33235" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">According to organizer Lauren Steiner, “When I worked on Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign in 1992, he was an uncompromised environmentalist. Now he will support any industry, including polluting ones, if he thinks it can bring jobs and tax revenues. In 1992, the old Jerry Brown limited his campaign contributions to under $100, so he wouldn’t be beholden to special interests. The new Jerry Brown has accepted $2.5 million over the past few years from the oil and gas industry.”...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">“It is ludicrous for Blue Green Alliance to give the Governor an award. Attacks on the environment or workers will not save our planet,” said Ongerth.</span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33156" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">As attendees of the dinner were arriving, protesters also handed an alternative program for the event featuring the 10 worst environmental policies of Governor Brown. </span><br />
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<span class="yiv938617930Apple-style-span" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33127" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">These include: the twin tunnel plan; plans to weaken the California Environmental Water Quality Act (CEQA); record water exports out of the Delta in 2011; record Delta fish kills; the signing of Senate Bill 4; clear cutting in the Sierra Nevada; pro-oil industry appointments to the Department of Conservation; the support of “theme park” wetlands; the failure to abide by the fish doubling provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) and support of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). </span><span class="yiv938617930Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="yiv938617930Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="yiv938617930Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">The program also included the list of groups and individuals who should have received an environmental award this year instead of Jerry Brown.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33226" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;"><b><i>Dan Bacher</i></b><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33225"> is an environmental journalist in Sacramento. He can be reached at: Dan Bacher </i><a href="mailto:danielbacher@fishsniffer.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:danielbacher@fishsniffer.com"><span style="color: #c81727;"><i>danielbacher@fishsniffer.com</i></span></a><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1382342866105_33155" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal Georgia;">For more information about Jerry Brown’s abysmal environmental record, go to: <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/jerry-brown-worse-than-schwarzenegger-on-environment/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c81727;">http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/jerry-brown-worse-than-schwarzenegger-on-environment/</span></a></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-24699449259040703532013-10-14T14:38:00.000-07:002013-10-14T14:38:21.793-07:00Industrial Toxin Selenium May Be Killing Off Honey Bees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Selenium, a chemical element that is both naturally occurring and often found near mining and industrial activities, can delay the development of or even kill <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.redorbit.com/topics/honey-bee/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">honey bees</a>, according to new research in the October issue of <em><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291552-8618" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry</a></em>.<br />
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Researchers from the University of California, Riverside found that the four primary forms of the anthropogenic pollutant – selenate, selenite, methylselenocysteine and selenocystine – can cause mortality and developmental delays in the insects, which are important agricultural pollinator both domestically and abroad. The authors believe that the bees could become contaminated through the biotransfer of the metal from selenium-accumulating plants.<br />
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“Metal pollutants like selenium contaminate soil, water, can be accumulated in plants, and can even be atmospherically deposited on the hive itself,” explained lead author <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://faculty.ucr.edu/~john/TrumbleLab/Trumble_Lab/Kristen_Hladun.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kristen Hladun</a> a postdoctoral entomologist at the university. “Our study examined the toxic effects of selenium at multiple life stages of the honey bee in order to mimic the chronic exposure this insect may face when foraging in a contaminated area.”<br />
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According to the university, selenium contamination is a global issue that originated from naturally contaminated soils as well as sources that are human in origin, including coal-fired power plants, petroleum refineries or factories. Low concentrations of the element can be beneficial to many creatures – in fact, the authors noted that it is a critical component of an antioxidant enzyme. Higher levels of the metal can be toxic to several different types of insects, however.<br />
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Honey bees ingest selenium through contaminated pollen and nectar, Hladun and her colleagues discovered. Organic forms of the metal can alter protein conformation, causing developmental issues, while inorganic forms can lead to oxidative stress. Hladun said that additional research is required to determine if selenium can damage the bee’s internal organs, or if the insect is able to somehow detoxify the compounds. <br />
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Read morehttp://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/10/industrial-toxin-selenium-may-be-killing-off-honey-bees-2641822.html</div>
Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-63729708015389495712013-09-20T13:55:00.001-07:002013-09-20T14:52:34.469-07:00Distilled critique of DWR’s latest escapade at its public transparency charade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Department of Water Resources' (DWR) Public Information Officer, Nancy Vogel, did precisely what she is paid to do -- damage control. DWR's hyperbole, it is all about “transparency”, is simply public-relation rhetoric. When it comes to accepting meaningful public input DWR officials have a long track record of operating in a vacuum. Anyone that has had dealings with DWR officials see right through Vogel’s and her predecessor’s revolving-door 1970s “pantyhose one-size-fit-all” stretch the truth phenomenon; i.e., if one simply ignored the historical facts and DWR's lack-luster performance, and is mindful that to government employees like Vogel, it is just a job that pays the mortgage, then, perhaps this critique will assist in clarifying the department’s interpretation of transparency. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-46278296042896592072013-09-07T22:02:00.003-07:002013-09-07T22:19:12.590-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal Arial;">The "office hours" were public meetings advertised as an opportunity to get answers to Delta landowners’ concerns, according to Restore the Delta (RTD). </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal Arial;">For more information, go to <a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0d2f5a;"><u>http://www.restorethedelta.org</u></span></a> <a href="http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/brown-administration-bars-reporter-from-public-meeting-on-tunnels/">http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/brown-administration-bars-reporter-from-public-meeting-on-tunnels/</a></span></div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-76698766434358798432013-09-06T00:59:00.001-07:002013-09-06T01:02:04.866-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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by Patrick Porgans and Lloyd Carter <br />
<em>Wednesday Sep 4th, 2013 5:35 PM </em></div>
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The following is Part Two of a story posted at <a href="http://www.lloydgcarter.com/">http://www.lloydgcarter.com</a> on May 22. This part concerns California's abysmal efforts to meet goals set by the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. For more information, contact Patrick Porgans <a href="mailto:pp@planetarysolutionaries.org">pp [at] planetarysolutionaries.org</a>.</blockquote>
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Some 41 years down the road and California still has a long ways to go in assessing and establishing TMDLs statewide. EPA’s latest published report indicate that only 16 percent of the State’s rivers and stream were assessed; 84 percent classified as “water-quality impaired”. Ten percent of those rivers and streams were classified as “good”, the remainder 90 percent impaired. <br />
Source: <a href="http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA#APRTMDLS">http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_state.control?p_state=CA#APRTMDLS</a> <br />
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“California has some of the most magnificent rivers, lakes and coastal waters in the country. However, of its 3.0 million acres of lakes, bays, wetlands and estuaries, 1.6 million acres are not meeting water quality goals, and 1.4 million acres still need a pollution clean-up plan, known as a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). Of the 215,000 miles of shoreline, streams and rivers, 30,000 miles are not meeting water quality goals, and 20,000 miles still need a TMDL. The most common contaminants in these waterways are pesticides and bacteria, followed by metals and nutrients,” according to EPA. [Refer to Part I: Dirty little secrets about CWA.] <br />
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Indeed, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) and the state Department of Public Health (DPH), based on their performance and track-record, are playing Russian-Roulette with citizens' lives, given that dangerous toxins and poisons continue to plague public drinking supplies and the waters of the state, decade after decade. Getting all of California's rivers, lakes, estuaries and ocean shorelines clean enough to drink or swim in may be decades away. <br />
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The goal of the CWA was to make U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and to achieve “zero” discharge of pollutants to waterways by 1985. The historical records and the current status of the widespread pollution of the public’s streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ground water basins are a testament to the manner in which both the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDA) of 1974 are “managed” by California water officials. <br />
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Four decades and an estimated expenditure of $40 billion of federal taxpayer funds and state borrowed money under the guise of “Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking water supply”, California’s waterways remain contaminated, and, according to the data, the problem is getting worse. <br />
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<strong>Trends in toxicity have increased by 170 percent since 2006</strong><br />
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Increased water monitoring data shows the number of rivers, streams and lakes in California exhibiting overall toxicity have increased 170 percent from 2006 to 2010. Source: <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F2D3C71584D71DE4852579260068780E</a> <br />
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More of California’s waterways are toxically polluted/water quality impaired than previously known, according to a list of polluted waterways submitted by the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and finalized by the agency. The data indicate an increase in toxicity and listing of water impaired bodies will continue to rise. The State Board and regional water boards administer the provisions of the CWA under an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <br />
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Read more.<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/04/18742716.php">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/04/18742716.php</a></div>
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State Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, introduced a $5.6 billion water bond Tuesday to provide funding for projects to address the state’s water needs.<br />
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“SB 42 is a fresh approach to this bond discussion,” said Wolk, who chairs the Senate Governance and Finance Committee and the Select Committee on Delta Stewardship and Sustainability.<br />
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“It focuses on funding the most effective, broadly supported projects that will meet the state’s most urgent water needs. At roughly half the amount of the $11.14 billion water bond currently slated for the 2014 ballot, this proposal is much more realistic.”<br />
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Senate Bill 42, The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality & Flood Protection Act of 2014, provides funding for projects that provide safe drinking water to those Californians who still do not have access to this basic resource, improve water supply reliability while decreasing demand on the state’s most stressed watershed, advance community support ecosystem restoration and improve levees in the delta.<br />
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The projects funded by the bond will benefit all regions of the state. Specifically, SB 42 addresses needs for the following:<br />
* Regional water supply development around the state;<br />
* Safe and clean drinking water;<br />
* Delta community-supported ecosystem restoration and levee enhancement in the delta;<br />
* Funding for watershed and ecosystem projects around the state;<br />
* Support for development of groundwater and surface water storage to the extent that those facilities<br />
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* Flood protection in the Central Valley.<br />
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“SB 42 will address the needs of the more than 2 million Californians who don’t have access to clean drinking water, and the more than 1 million Californians who are not adequately protected from catastrophic flood risk, while at the same time addressing the crisis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,” Wolk said.<br />
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The delta is a fertile agricultural region and is the largest estuary in the Western Hemisphere, said the senator, who represents four of the five counties in the delta.<br />
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“This is a bond I believe my colleagues and voters can support,” she added.</div>
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Patrick Porganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04186885477324962599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5323855336065501605.post-1231136470436553862013-07-25T10:36:00.002-07:002013-07-25T10:36:32.659-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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water plan<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="color: #930000; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">July 24, 2013</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After threatening
to cut off funding to California earlier this spring because the state had been
so slow to improve its </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/16/local/la-me-drinking-water-20130617"><span style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">drinking water</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,
the </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/environmental-issues/u.s.-environmental-protection-agency-ORGOV000048.topic" title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"><span style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
has approved the state’s revised spending plan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I think as a
result of this process, Californians can be more assured that their
infrastructure needs are being met,” said EPA regional administrator Jared
Blumenfeld.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In April, the EPA
issued a noncompliance warning to the California Department of Public Health,
amid complaints that funds were not being distributed promptly or efficiently.
Californians in many communities have suffered from a lack of potable water
while the state left $455 million in federal funds unspent and failed to pursue
an additional $260 million in loan repayments, EPA officials found.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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residents in low-income communities were forced to buy bottled water or drive
many miles to get safe tap water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The state
submitted its “corrective action plan” on June 24. The EPA requested that the
state revise and clarify various aspects, and a new plan was submitted on July
12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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commitments approved Tuesday, the state must distribute at least $878 million
to projects by mid-2016. That would be more than double the amount of funding
disbursed during the past four years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fiscal year, the department plans to distribute $200 million.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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funding commitments were better spelled out in the new plan, and the state will
be able to account for and track the money more closely. But the EPA’s
continued support of the state’s programs depends on the department’s ability
to follow through on its promises, Blumenfeld said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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will pay for water system projects of all sizes in the state, Dr. Ron Chapman,
director of the state Department of Public Health and state public health
officer, said in a statement Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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water advocates are hopeful that the state’s renewed attention to the funding
problems will help smaller, disadvantaged communities, said Omar Carrillo, a
policy analyst for the Community Water Center, an advocacy group that works on
behalf of low-income people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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identified 183 small systems in 2012 that merited assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bill that would transfer drinking water programs from the department of public
health to the state water board, said the EPA approval does not mean all
problems have been solved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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he said the drinking water program should still be under different governance
to ensure increased transparency and greater public participation, among other
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