This watchdog's cry: Cleaner Delta water

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 22, 2003 | Michael Kolber

[farmfriend]

STOCKTON -- Some day in the not-so-distant future Central Valley farmers, long exempt from clean water regulation, could be forced to make sure pesticides and water running off their fields aren't damaging the state's rivers and lakes.

The man whom farmers could largely blame for the change smokes pressed Virginia tobacco from a wooden pipe and lives in a Stockton house built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair as a replica of Scottish poet Robert Burns' home.

[farmfriend]

DeltaKeeper presents its findings regularly in testimony before the state and regional water boards, and when decisions don't go their way, is quick to sue polluters and regulators.

He said his environmental interest was reawakened by fish kills in the Mokelumne River in the early 1990s, and in 1995 he started DeltaKeeper, with the backing of WaterKeepers Northern California, which runs a similar operation in the San Francisco area and now has $1.4 million in annual revenue, largely through government grants and charitable donations.

Government funded protection racket. Lovely.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[cake_crumb]

These people are destroying all of us. There haven't even been any STUDIES on this!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Hermann the Cherusker]

How much studying needs to be done of fish that are inedible to realize there is a problem?

[Iowa Granny]

in 1995 he started DeltaKeeper, with the backing of WaterKeepers Northern California, which runs a similar operation in the San Francisco area and now has $1.4 million in annual revenue, largely through government grants and charitable donations

And if you follow the trail far enough, you will probably find a link to Bobby Kennedy, who is closely associated with WaterKeepers in the East.