The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Hi All,

This information is passed along from Byron at FOTR.

-Greg

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If you want informed input on the California Water War that’s seriously underway after several dormant years, spend a few minutes listening to this KPFA broadcast. Guests on the program are Lloyd Carter, former UPI and Fresno Bee reporter who broke the Kesterson wildlife deformity scandal in the Western San Joaquin Valley in the mid-1980s and now an attorney, Tom Stokely, director of California Water Impact Network

(c-win.org) and Gary Patton, Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League (pcl.org). The discussion includes issues related to the governor’s proposed $9 billion water bond.



The water portion of the show starts 23 minutes into the hour long show. You can download it as an MP3 from this site and it will play on your Windows media player. Skip ahead to the 23 minute mark.

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which means in government fiasco money (ala Bay Bridge) it will be $40 BILLION dollars and the fish and water quality will suffer and the delta will be destroyed further.

Back when Peter Jennings was doing the news he had a segment call "It's your money" that he'd do every now and then. In one of these segments he reported on some kind of facility that the Federal Government was building in Texas. I can't remember now what the place was for... Anyway, it was supposed to cost $20 million to build but ended up missing it's deadline by over a year and costing closer to $50 million when it was finished. After they were finished, they realized that the air conditioning ducts had all been installed or designed incorrectly(I can't remember which)and the whole system had to be ripped out and redone. That was supposed to cost $2 million but ended up taking longer and costing almost $5 when they were finally finished. So this facility was finally finished, 2 years behind schedule. Now get this! The section of the Government that this facility was for went in and looked at the place and decided that it was outdated was now obsolete! They never moved into the place! Then they spent another $10 million knocking it down and cleaning it up!

The water bond stuff now includes THREE new dams, none of which will provide as much water as simple water conservation programs can yeild for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Bjorn at FOTR