Today’s Board meeting was pretty lively. The boardroom was prepared for a large turnout from the public, and certainly there were more people there than I’ve seen in the past, although the overflow chairs went unused. The issue that brought people out was the prospect of the District’s closing its reservoirs to boating in response [...]
The Dutch Embassy has published a booklet outlining the similar delta management challenges faced by the Netherlands (where two-thirds of the country is at or below sea level) and California and Louisiana.
From the Contra Costa Times, an eloquent op-ed about recycled water all over the Bay Area. In the 21st century we need to think in terms of the “soft path” — one which seeks to improve the productivity of water use and match delivery of water to the needs of the users instead of just [...]
The California state senate voted yesterday to disband the California Bay-Delta Authority, according to the SF Chronicle. The [California Bay-Delta Authority] includes representatives from six state and six federal agencies and had been charged with implementing the California-Federal Bay-Delta Program to repair the delta. The authority was created by a joint agreement between the state [...]
The Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force has published a presentation about “dual conveyance,” (the peripheral canal plus in-Delta conveyance) prepared for it by the state Department of Water Resources. The Contra Costa Times has an article about it. And in the LA Times, our last three governors have written an op-ed piece calling for [...]
If you’ll kindly turn to the last page of your sample ballot: And, if you vote by mail, please don’t forget to turn the ballot over:
You may recall that the Landscape Advisory Committee, back on April 10, recommended that the District raise water rates by more than the suggested amounts, to encourage water conservation and to fund other needed capital projects. The Agricultural Water Advisory Committee did no such thing today. After the groundwater charges presentation (my fourth viewing; this [...]
The District has posted a PDF with answers to all those frequently-asked questions about the amendments to the District Act. Why wasn’t this amendment made during [the] 2006 District Act change? The 2006 District Act amendment ended the duplicative county oversight of the Water District’s budget and other procedural holdovers from a 40-year-old political arrangement [...]
Pat Ferarro, the retired SCVWD Director from District 2, by whom I’m honored to have been endorsed, sent me a picture of his smart car.
The Willow Glen Farmers Market opened this morning. I always go to buy fruit and vegetables, and today, I was also there to talk to voters. I had good conversations with many people, and even saw a few friends I hadn’t seen in many years. And, since I assume you don’t get all of your [...]