"On Friday the Metropolitan Water District published a piece in the Sacramento Bee advocating a peripheral conveyance and the further destruction of the Delta. Here is my rebuttal published today (Monday the 23rd). Restore the Delta also has an excellent 1/2 page color ad calling for action to save the Delta.
Peripheral canal's danger
Re "Canal would help ailing Delta to recover" (Viewpoints, March 20): Contrary to what Donn Zeta and Jeffrey Kightlinger believe, the peripheral canal, isolated facility, conveyance or whatever the latest code word is would actually have the opposite effect and destroy what is left of the Delta. The problems with the Delta now are largely caused by organizations such as Metropolitan Water District of Southern California diverting water from the Delta via the state and federal water projects.
I challenge Zeta and Kightlinger to give one example where diverting water from a waterway has improved it. The Metropolitan Water District should be very familiar with ecological disasters such as the Colorado River Delta, Owens "Dry" Lake and Mono Lake.
Closer to our Delta, take a look at the San Joaquin River above Stockton, or the Mokelumne River, to get an idea of what the Sacramento River will look like if the canal is built. The diversion of the Trinity River into the Sacramento likewise has caused the salmon population on that river to collapse.
The canal is a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem; I urge all Californians to oppose it.
– Bill Wells, Sacramento"
Bill Wells
Executive Director
California Delta Chambers & Visitor's Bureau
PO Box 1118
Rio Vista, CA 94571
URGENT! We all need to do whatever we can to try to stop the canal.....whatever "they" call it!
Peripheral canal's danger
Re "Canal would help ailing Delta to recover" (Viewpoints, March 20): Contrary to what Donn Zeta and Jeffrey Kightlinger believe, the peripheral canal, isolated facility, conveyance or whatever the latest code word is would actually have the opposite effect and destroy what is left of the Delta. The problems with the Delta now are largely caused by organizations such as Metropolitan Water District of Southern California diverting water from the Delta via the state and federal water projects.
I challenge Zeta and Kightlinger to give one example where diverting water from a waterway has improved it. The Metropolitan Water District should be very familiar with ecological disasters such as the Colorado River Delta, Owens "Dry" Lake and Mono Lake.
Closer to our Delta, take a look at the San Joaquin River above Stockton, or the Mokelumne River, to get an idea of what the Sacramento River will look like if the canal is built. The diversion of the Trinity River into the Sacramento likewise has caused the salmon population on that river to collapse.
The canal is a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem; I urge all Californians to oppose it.
– Bill Wells, Sacramento"
Bill Wells
Executive Director
California Delta Chambers & Visitor's Bureau
PO Box 1118
Rio Vista, CA 94571
URGENT! We all need to do whatever we can to try to stop the canal.....whatever "they" call it!