San Joaquin Water Crisis Information Thread

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[amom]

San Joaquin Water Crisis Resource Information:

Websites
Aquafornia.com
http://aquafornia.com/
By Water Education Foundation.
“…Aquafornia is dedicated to providing comprehensive news and information about California water issues, as well as issues affecting the southwest. Aquafornia posts links from the news media, press releases, trade magazines, and blogs…The site is updated usually by 8am daily, 7 days a week, and breaking news is posted whenever it occurs…” Links to footage from the Sean Hannity Show.

Farmers For Water
www.Farmersforwater.com
“…Providing Links & Information on the Central Valley Water Crisis…” Good collection of articles, maps and photos, links and other information.

Families Protecting the Valley
www.FamiliesProtectingTheValley.com
“…The primary goal of the organization is to ensure an adequate and affordable water supply for the people of the San Joaquin Valley both now and in the future…” These folks have been around since the late 90s. Good collection of videos, photos and a news page.

California Farm Water Coalition
www.cfwc.com
“…The California Farm Water Coalition was formed in 1989… CFWC was formed to increase public awareness of agriculture’s efficient use of water and promote the industry’s environmental sensitivity regarding water…” This site has a blog page. Last blog entry was in June 09.

Family Farm Alliance
www.FamilyFarmAlliance.org
“…Agriculture doesn't need another association, but it does need an effective, low cost grass roots group that can get the job done…” Has monthly briefings going back to 2002 however last briefing posted is for July 09. Good for reference/resource materials.

Coalition for a Sustainable Delta
http://www.SustainableDelta.com/
“…The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta is an ad hoc group of water users who depend on conveyance through the Delta for a large portion of their water supplies. The Coalition is dedicated to protecting the Delta and is committed promoting a strategy to ensure its sustainability…”

Latino Water Coalition
http://www.GotWater.org/
“…The CLWC is a statewide coalition of influential Latino leaders that supports development of San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta environmental, conveyance and sustainability solutions along with additional water resources in California…”

Central Valley Tea Party
http://www.centralvalleyteaparty.com/index.php?c=114
“…The Central Valley Tea Party is a grassroots organization spearheaded by Fresno citizen Melissa Wheeler Courtney... working with volunteers in communities from Merced to Bakersfield to identify potential political candidates that share our core values…”

The Water for All
http://www.waterforall.com/
”…is a statewide coalition of influential Latino leaders who support the development of additional water resources…is an organization created to restore the rightful water supplies to our Central Valley…”

Clearinghouse for Global Warming
http://globalwarmingclearinghouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/27-aug-2009-articles-interesting.html Articles, charts and graphs

Who’s who:
Sen. Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto, a lead water negotiator
Phil Isenberg, chairman of the Delta Vision Task Force, created by the governor in 2006
Jim Metropulos, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
Lester Snow, director of the state Department of Water Resources
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, campaign director for Restore the Delta
Assembly Member Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, a lead water negotiator
Salazar Interior Secretary
Tom Vilsack U.S. Agriculture Secretary
Steny Hoyer House Majority Leader
Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) 4th Term
Senator Barbara Boxer (D) 3rd Term
Sam Farr (D) 9th Term
Dennis Cardoza (D) 4th Term
George P. Radanovich (R) 8th Term
Jim Costa (D) 3rd Term
Devin Nunes (R) 4th Term
Kevin McCarthy (R) 2nd Term
Dan Keppen Executive Director Family Farm Alliance
Paul Rodriguez, Chair CLWC
Mayor Victor Lopez, Co-Chair, Central Valley City of Orange Cove CLWC
Ruben Guerra, Co-Chair, Southern California Latin Business Association CLWC
Tony Estremera, Co-Chair Director, Santa Clara Valley Water District CLWC

Stastics:
Almond farmer Shawn Coburn spent $600,000 to dig a new well
100,000 acres went unplanted last year, and this year, it could be 750,000 acres.
Economists say that will mean $1.5 billion in lost income and the elimination of 40,000 jobs.
Ninety percent of the nation’s almonds come from this valley
700-mile maze of rivers, tributaries and sloughs
California’s San Joaquin Valley farmers grow 25 % of the Nation’s food supply.
Over 90% of the following US crops are grown in the San Joaquin Valley: cannery tomatoes, almonds & pistachios.
The Valley economy depends on the farming industry and farmers depend on Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water.

Contact data:
Families Protecting the Valley
11409 Road 26 ½
Madera, CA 93637
Phone: (559) 673-1081
Fax: (559) 673-5271
E-mail: water@fpv.ag

Water for All
4270 Blackstone Ave Suite 301
Fresno, CA 93726
PO Box 187 Riverdale, CA 93656
Phone 559 229-9033 34 36
Fax 559 229-9043
Cell 559 284-0168
Piedad@waterforall.com
Ed@waterforall.com
Eliseo@waterforall.com

California Farm Water Coalition
5999 Freeport Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95822
Phone: (916) 391-5030
Fax: (916) 391-5044
www.cfwc.com

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D)
4th Term (2007-2012)
202-224-3841
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

One Post St., #2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 393-0707

Senator Barbara Boxer (D)
3rd Term (2005-2010)
202-224-3553
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

1700 Montgomery St., #240
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 403-0100

Sam Farr (D)
9th Term 202-225-2861
1126 LHOB
Salinas 831-424-2229

Dennis Cardoza (D)
4th Term 202-225-6131
1224 LHOB
Merced 209-383-4455
Modesto 527-1914
Stockton 946-0361

George P. Radanovich (R)
8th Term 202-225-4540
2410 RHOB
Fresno 559-449-2490
Modesto 209-579-5458

Jim Costa (D)
3rd Term 202-225-3341
1314 LHOB
Fresno 559-495-1620
Bakersfield 661-869-1620

Devin Nunes (R)
4th Term 202-225-2523
1013 LHOB
Visalia 559-733-3861
Clovis 559-323-5235

Kevin McCarthy (R)
2nd Term 202-225-2915
1523 LHOB
Bakersfield 661-327-3611
Atascasero 805-461-1034

[amom]

Work in progress. Please ping me to any additions or corrections.

[amom]

Heads up to the San Joaquin Water Crisis Information/Resources Thread. Feel free to add to this.

[ozark hilljilly]

Thanx, amom!!

[bboop]

Thanks, amom. Good to have this all in one place. Those buzzards ...

[Sparky1776]

Here’s a playlist I made at Youtube, several videos which last under a total of an hour, some as short as a minute or so.

None are my videos but it’s an interesring cross section of voices that should be heard.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=961C90DFE5BF7AD2

Alan Autry calls it Domestic Terrorism, and I think he does a great job describing why it is.

I call it Obama’s man made Katrina.

What do you think Shepard Smith thinks about it?

[Mjaye]

Ping for later reference.

[Reagan69]

Needed: a huge, I MEAN HUGE, truck caravan to deliver millions of gallons of water to the farmers.

So, although the tree hugging nuts save the minnow, they will create tons of “truck” pollution.

[Jvette]

What needs to be done here is some simple civil disobedience. Ahnold needs to just turn on the water and challenge Obama to come in with troops to turn it off.

[amom]

You are very welcome.

[amom]

You are welcome. Those buzzards have a knack for ticking folks off.

[amom]

Thanks for sharing your YouTube video playlist. It looks like an excellent addition. It will appear on the list in next refresh.

[blam]

"Needed: a huge, I MEAN HUGE, truck caravan to deliver millions of gallons of water to the farmers."

What the farmers need to do is get their guns, go and turn on the water valves and shoot anyone who tries to turn them back off.

[bk1000]

I was in the kitchen yesterday and noticed a package of rosemary came from Mexice. It made me think all this could be an attempt to create a food shortage. If the world gets skiddish of dollars we can’t buy it, and now we can’t grow it either? I’m not a conspiracy guy, but it seems to me it should take more than a few enviro-hippies whining about an insignificant minnow to shut down irrigation in a farm area. Something is afoot here. (I’m just sayin..)

[amom]

So, although the tree hugging nuts save the minnow, they will create tons of “truck” pollution.

I'm game.

Turn the water ON!.

[amom]

Agreed. Turn the water ON!

[amom]

it should take more than a few enviro-hippies whining about an insignificant minnow to shut down irrigation in a farm area.

I agree with you it should take more than a few enviro-hippies whining about a minnow...and it does...there are numerous 'green' groups at work here. Start with the Sierra Club.

I have seen this mentality up close for about 30 years now. Drove out the logging industry for the most part, drove out the fishing industry for the most part and is doing all it can to drive out farming and ranching.

[Sparky1776]

No problem Amom, you’re doing great work, hope everyone watches Hannity’s show tonight about it.

Amom if you have an “Obama’s Katrina” Ping List - add me!

[Jeff Head]

Outstanding information amom! Thanks, I will spread it around and use it.

Hey y'all, if you want contacts and a place to start looking for info on the San Joaquin water crisis, start here on amom's thread.

MY ADVISE O THE SAN JOAQUIN FARMERS

[amom]

Thanks Jeff!

[Buchal]

My two cents: The Governor has the power to petition the federal government for an ESA exemption. That he does not even ask for it shows what side he is on.

[backhoe]

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[blackie]

Thanks amom, you make a difference!

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[amom]

With your permission I would like to add links to your webpages for Klamath Falls Eyewitness Account and your Advise to the San Joaquin Farmers on the next update.

[amom]

The Governor has the power to petition the federal government for an ESA exemption.

Very telling isn't it?

[Jeff Head]

Absolutely...no problem whatsoever. The more who see it, the better.

[athelass]

ping for reference.

[athelass]

This is what happens when you legislate enviro-crazy policies. Like cap and tax. Here it’s food, they want it to be everything else. You think the recession is bad now, wait a couple of months until this man-made disaster hits the economy..

[beelzepug]

“What the farmers need to do is get their guns...”

I can’t believe it took a dozen posts to get to this. A few hundred (or more) armed farmers with bolt cutters, cut the chains, spin the valve wheels and get that water flowing. Who’s going to stop them? The National Guard is all deployed overseas, the local sheriff isn’t going to want a piece of this, come on. Maybe the judge that made the ruling will have the guts to show up, ya think?

[freekitty]

They should just go back and turn it on. The government be damned.

[amom]

Absolutely...no problem whatsoever. The more who see it, the better

Excellent. Thanks.

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Jeff Head’s webpage regarding the San Joaquin Water Crisis
http://www.jeffhead.com/cvwater.htm

Jeff Head’s webpage regarding The Stand at Klamath Falls
http://www.jeffhead.com/klamath/

[M Kehoe]

Good work.

I hope there isn't a tipping point where this thing goes hot. Almost happened at Klamath.

Pray cooler heads prevail, and water for everybody.

5.56mm

[amom]

Pray cooler heads prevail, and water for everybody.

Amen to that!

[Jeff Head]

It's a risk we always take when we stand up against tyranny...and one we, frankly, must take. Otherwise they will ride rough shod over us until they have disarmed us and trod into the dirt.

I pray it does not come to open, armed conflict...but then, I know our founders had the same prayer in their heart when they wrestled with the tyranny of their day.

[M Kehoe]

Otherwise they will ride rough shod over us until they have disarmed us and trod into the dirt.

I've said this before, so forgive me, but that action will make Gettysburg look like a walk in the park on a warm spring day.

5.56mm

[Noumenon]

Look to the real outcome of this move by the Left. This is nothing less than the beginning of the use of food as a weapon. The technique has been used in every totalitarian regime in the last century - and this one.

There is only one way this can end.

III

[bt_dooftlook]

Janet Napolitano tells us the administration will no longer refer to terrorist acts; they will instead be called "Man-caused disasters".

I say that the EPA is committing domestic terrorism, and that this should be the rallying cry for this cause, both to mock the current administrations lackadaisical attitude towards the serious threat of terrorism, as well as to indicate the true seriousness of a government starving citizens for a f***ing fish.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[scripter]

ping

[Issaquahking]

It's a risk we always take when we stand up against tyranny...and one we, frankly, must take. Otherwise they will ride rough shod over us until they have disarmed us and trod into the dirt.

I pray it does not come to open, armed conflict...but then, I know our founders had the same prayer in their heart when they wrestled with the tyranny of their day.

Amen!

[beelzepug]

Stalin starved millions of his own people in the ‘20s and ‘30s, people who were living on some of the richest farm land in the world. Just like the people in the San Joaquin Valley. Now we have our own Stalin. We can’t stand by and allow it to happen here!

[anglian]

See what other side is saying - with a point by point refute of SH. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/18/18622370.php

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Can you please add George Miller and of course Nancy Pelosi? Miller hates the Central Valley and will do everything he can to destroy our farms. Thanks.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The first event that highlighted the problem was the Water March. Ray Appleton, the Latino Water Coalition and a number of concerned farmers and farm workers marched for three days to the pumps near Tracy. There, they met with Governor Arnold who led a few half-hearted chants of “We need water!” After the effort of marching for three days in dust-bowl conditions, his appearance and actions were pathetic.

They all stood there, terrified to touch the pumps. So close, yet so far.

I think the farmers will have to take the initiative to take the water by force and let the consequences happen as they will. All the protests and marches have done nothing. The smelt is a non-native fish that has no business being declared “endangered.” The envirowhackos say it’s a “canary” fish that predicts that the Delta will “collapse” (whatever that means). A year ago the California agency in charge of either fish or water caught thousands of fish from the Delta and tossed them onto an island to die. I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish but it appears to me that the agency is incompetent. Big surprise.

The politicians are using salmon fishermen as opposition to farmers, but the fishermen and farmers are actually aligned on the same side, if they would sit down and talk. Salmon populations will continue to decline as long as Hetch Hetchy stands and blocks the salmons’ trip to their native home. But that can’t be done... HH serves as the power and water source for the Holy City of San Francisco.

The CVPIA allowed Sacramento and Stockton (and Berkeley and Martinez) to continue to dump partially-treated sewage into the Delta where the smelt live and spawn. This sewage also travels to LA where it serves as tap water (ewwww!!). Rather than require these cities to build treatment plants, the flawed CVPIA protects the status quo, and requires the Westlands Water District’s water be shut off completely during spawning season (conveniently timed to coincide with the start of growing season for the row crops, and blossom time for fruit and nut orchards), to keep water in the channel to dilute the Bay Area sewage.

The water problem will only get worse. Three of the four local congressmen voted for a measure to let the San Joaquin River flow to the Delta (it is currently dammed in Millerton Lake and released to the Friant Kern Canal). More water will flow to the ocean unused by farmers. No one knows (or seems to care, except Devin Nunes) that farmers will lose this water in addition to the Delta water that was formerly delivered via contractual agreements, now voided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Pacific Legal Foundation has a lawsuit demanding the USFWS decision be overturned. Maybe they’ll get lucky. No one seems to want to get the so-called God Squad involved. How our country has deteriorated... we have a “God Squad” to grant us the “right” to pursue a livelihood. Lenin would be proud.

I think you are right. We will have to fight, or lie down and die. Those are our choices.

[Jeff Head]

MY ADVISE TO THE SAN JOAQUIN FARMERS - TURH YOUR WATR ON. LET THE WATER FLOW

[Eye of Unk]

I used to live in Modesto and near Merced and I can say this with certainty, if the farming literally “Dries up” so will illegal immigrants, they will have no jobs and will relocate.

They will be the modern day people of “The Grapes of Wrath” and will migrate to where farming is available. They for the most part are not eligible for unemployment benefits nor will they seek out vocational training.

My guess is they will head north to Oregon, Idaho and Washington.

I agree there should be a decision to act on this in a most expeditious manner regardless of the legal repercussions.

The San Joaquin Valley feeds almost half of the USA, if it dies it will create a national security hole in the fence that our enemies will exploit.

[amom]

Can you please add George Miller and of course Nancy Pelosi?

Done, thank you. I've also added the Govenor.

[amom]

Agreed.

[amom]

You can sign up to receive email updates specifically covering the petition and case litigation at the Pacific Legal Foundation. http://community.pacificlegal.org/Page.aspx?pid=968

[sport]

That is the only thing that will work. But it will probably not happen. Until we put our lives on the line in organized actions. They are going to continue. Cap and Trade, obama care, them getting control of the food supply. What will it take?