Posted on 12/02/2008 2:40:30 PM PST by NormsRevenge
A California board has revoked federal water claims that were critical to building a long-stalled dam northeast of Sacramento, effectively ending the project.
Tuesday's unanimous vote by the State Water Resources Control Board comes more than four decades after Congress authorized the Auburn Dam to control flooding along the American River.
Board members said the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had not done its job.
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The Bureau of Reclamation could apply for new permits, but Congress first would have to reauthorize the project.
(Excerpt) Read more at bakersfield.com ...
California, in the midst of a water shortage
Where the question soon may be..
not..
Got Milk?
but
Got Water?
Rivers are Born Free ♫, after all.
the State Water Resources Control Board
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/
The members of the board, a diverse group... of nudniks.
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/about_us/board_members/
pdf file of proposed order.
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/board_info/agendas/2008/dec/1202_6.pdf
being as the dam project has been delayed due to seismic and enviromental concerns for so long, the board finally pulled the plug on the permits because it has not produced water for the state as originally intended...
bureaucrats gone wild.. it’s almost funny..
Some day the rains will return with catastrophic flooding along the river in the Sacramento area. Property damage and even death may result, but the enviro-nuts have saved the environment where fishes and such are more important than people.
Maybe California should start thinking about building a border fence to keep their residents in ...
a topic close to SW’s heart Ping. ;-)
What can ya say?
Another dam will probably never be built in California. The state is full of seismic faults and enviroweinies.
the enviro-nuts have saved the environment where fishes and such are more important than people.
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Let them drink Chablis to celebrate all their successes.. unless the Napa Valley get flooded too.. then make it a beer... as in beer batter for the smelt that now swim in abundance. ;-)
lol,, Dontc’xha jsut love it,, we got the chimney police out now too.. more state and local jobs, I reckun. not a silver lining in this instance tho.
But waterboarding is evil!
I expect that Hetch Hetchy is on Arnold’s hit list before he leaves office.
He just re-appointed a bunch of leftist Rats to the PUC, too.
They voted this way because some of our dear commercial corporate whitewater rafting moguls heard Tom McClintock say during his campaign that he was going to continue to push for an Auburn Dam like John Doolittle did for 20 of the 30 years it's been deliberately stalled with the vast, never-ending help of the Sacramento BEE!!!
WHEN the disaster comes (not IF) when that happens and people die I want to see manslaughter charges brought against these idiots. They know damn well what they have done.
Flood control is the cheapest and quickest plan to implement and would have been accomplished years ago if local folks had been satisfied with this worthwhile but limited purpose.
But the locals wanted more. A lot more. A very expensive more. They wanted storage, to assure local development. They wanted power generation to supplement local income but most of all they wanted pride, a high dam, a outrageously expensive dam that could dictate planning policy and control growth in several adjoining counties.
Their greed got them nothing but an ugly scar in the side of a hill.
Sad, I lived in Auburn when this all started back in the 1970s.
Plus it reminded me how here husband fought John Doolittle and the Auburn Dam for over two decades... Now you can't have her change with the crime her husband got away with by jeopardizing CA's state capitol and all the nature in the Bay Delta. At least he didn't get the Yolo Bypass named after him like Vic Fazio did...
Conservative Republicans always get into so much trumped-up trouble whenever they try to do the very same things they see Demicrats doing in high political office! The Demicrats just get all filled with righteous indignation when they encounter Republicans in such a suspicious circumstance.
Only difference this time is that it was the Bush Justice Department that got all filled with supposedly righteous indignation, but were just too chicken to make a formal charge!!!
I guess I'm just a "bitter clinger!" Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!!!
There never was any legitimate reason to limit that dam to a single purpose when you can get all those other bangs with the same taxpayer's bucks... Especially when it was already 2/3rds completed when they start claiming the totally unproven theory of "reservoir induced siezmicity!"
That element of selfishness on the part of the whitewater recreation industry is the greater crime against the taxpayers and eventually the flood insurance burdened souls in Sacramento and the wildlife habitat on those delta islands!!!
If those islands were filled with jazz musicians and wall-to-wall minorities controlled by crooked liberal politician slave masters, Katrina wouldn't hold a candle to the next 12 day pineapple express storm like 1986 that nearly over-topped Folsom Dam!!!
what? Are you trying to be some kind of populist/consumerist activist with all this vituperation of rural greed when it's flatlander cityslickers and metrosexuals that would benefit from the water storage/peak power/flood control/recreation/construction employment with all the "multipliers" causing all boats to rise regionally???
I don't beg to differ... I just plain differ and puzzle over your consistent lack of understanding in our discussions. What's up with that??? Every dam in CA is built on or near a fault!!!
A couple of cans fell on the floor, it felt as though a delivery truck had backed into a corner of the building by mistake.
Matsui and this other guy (who's name escapes me, but it couldn't have been more than 5 letters) will be responsible for the Valley Dustbowl.
Nature will throw you a curve from time-to-time. I've lived here long enough to know that we're way past getting some significant rain this year (08). These two clowns (geez, it's an Italian name, I think starts with 'F) voted "rafter interests" and have possibly screwed this valley to Death Valley Days.
F*in' FAZIO!!!!ye haw, I remembered. First name: Vic, rhymes with...
We usually get almost 15" rain average per year. What worries me is that Nature doesn't often miss her target, and we might be looking at a 'catch-up' like last January that rivaled some cyclones. Not sure my fences could take another hit like that, but I'll take the rain.
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