MCWRA Unimpaired Flow Comment Letter & Opinion printed in The Union Democrat
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association comments on the 2016 Bay-Delta Plan Amendment & Substitute Environmental Document (SED)
Click link for letter to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB): Water Quality Control Plan – Unimpaired Flows 2017
Draining the Sierra Nevada Headwaters
By John Kingsbury, Executive Director, Mountain Counties Water Resources Association
The State Water Resources Control Board (SWCRB) is developing regulations that will deprive northern Californian’s of our water supplies.
The proposed plan guarantees that Sierra water be dedicated to flow unimpaired to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta). This flawed approach will drain Sierra Nevada headwaters and reservoirs while dedicating that water to fill a bathtub with a hole in it – the Delta.
Read the Opinion as published in the Union Democrat: http://www.uniondemocrat.com/opinion/5154769-151/draining-the-sierra-nevada-headwaters?referrer=bullet1
