Virtual Speaker Card - State Water Board Meeting/Workshop - November 16-17, 2021
Use this form only if you wish to speak on an item on the State Water Board's agenda. Please complete the information below so you can be emailed the password to participate in the remote meeting, either via phone or via computer or mobile device.
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Please see Dan Bacher’s diary on this for the facts:
Part of it reads:
...Last year during the height of California’s Drought, the California State Water Quality Control Board approved a plan that allowed the federal government to enact the Trump Water Plan without meeting California clean water laws. This plan allowed over 80% of baby salmon to be killed in the Sacramento River under Shasta Dam from lethal water temperatures, and it allowed the reservoir to be drained for diversions to industrial farmers that grow crops such as rice and almonds.
Many Californians testified for California to not allow Trump Water Plan diversions, which put agricultural deliveries above cities’ drinking water, the San Francisco/Bay Delta, rivers and the salmon. The Board ignored these comments and allowed the federal government through the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to disregard state and federal laws along with the public trust and tribal rights.
Then the BOR violated their own plan to “only” kill 80% of the endangered winter-run salmon...