Posted on 06/21/2022 9:24:20 PM PDT by cuz1961
SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Residents and farmers in the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) are ready to fight for their water.
Residents believed their water contract was "iron-clad" and that, regardless of conditions, they would be given enough water to survive the summer months. Furthermore, residents were outraged to learn
. . . the water they did have was sold off,. . . . . without the public's approval or knowledge.
The biggest sign of the dry conditions: the ACID water canal has run completely dry. As a result, of the roughly 800 farms that exist in the district, almost all of them look the same... dried up and barren.
While ACID officials are hopeful this year will be a one-off, locals aren't buying it. And they're angry.
"People are mad because they have lost their livelihoods," said Ed Roberts, a Cottonwood native and Millwright. "They've lost investments that they have generations involved in. We're not a big commercial grower, but we have a lot of small farms, and a lot of people want to just support themselves, their families. And they want to pass that onto their kids, their grandchildren."
"This is going to put an end to that. We're not going to be able to pass this on if we don't fight it now and beat it." Roberts and others are working on hiring an attorney to represent them in this case. Among their other frustrations is the lack of water that's being kept in the Northstate.
For example, Shasta County saw decent rain on June 5. But, according to records, . . . all of that rainfall was released into the Delta, . . .rather than being stored . . . .and, . . .potentially, used for irrigation purposes locally.
And therein lies the root of Roberts and other ACID residents' frustrations: in their minds, the state is ignoring their well-being in favor of those who live in more urban cities.
Given the dire circumstances, many ranchers in the ACID region. . . . have been forced to sell off their cattle or horses in recent months, . . . . .simply because they can't afford to keep them alive.
One woman that spoke with KRCR, who also lives in Cottonwood, expressed how a lack of water is everybody's problem, everybody's burden.
"It's bipartisan," the woman said.
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If I didn't know better it would look like purposeful destruction of food sources, and a created drought.
There are tons of tree orchards up here,, a year without water will wipe them all out.
This is created famine and drought and destruction of agriculture imho.
Fightin’ words...
Government induced food shortages.
“Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting”.
Isn’t there a whiskey lake near redding?
800 farms
Let that sink in.
In ONE district.
All the orchards , and there’s lots, will be standing match books waiting for fire season.
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Isn’t there a whiskey lake near redding
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It’s a recreation area, that water is a lake not a resivour.
It’s not tied into the irrigation system.
How or what actions can Freepers take?
Yes and Newsome loves fire season!🤬
Some American Pharoahs are in need of a “visitation”...
West of Redding.
I think so, have not lived in that area for several decades.
Have some family in that area.
“People are mad because they have lost their livelihoods,”
800 farms.
The purposeful destruction of our state and country rolls on.
No crop, no money, how are they supposed to pay their property taxes ?
Or is that part of the plan, to foreclose on those properties ?.
How or what actions can Freepers take?
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I honestly don’t know.
By the time their lawyers get through the legal system , even if they win, it will probably be too late .
Spit.
Prog infestation comes in many forms.
The local illegal pot growers near Redding probably get first dibs on the water
I know a guy who lives near there. He loves his little green paradise
Whiskeytown. And that is stupid anyway because they are talking about water.
It is. But who cares? Other than the poor bastards affected by it. No one. The policies of the Left, to wit} The Biden Administration are Systematically starving the Nation. Setting the stage for famine on down the line.
How about a desalination plant that California thinks it’s too good for?
Whatever happened to saving rainwater in barrels and local impoundment ponds?
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