[env-trinity] Devastating Science Review of OCAP Biological Opinion

[Byron]

The attached Scientific Review released late Friday of the Biological
Opinion of the Long Term Central Valley Project and State Water Project
Operations Criteria and Plan (OCAP) is a devastating indictment of the
inadequacy of that Opinion.  Since environmental documents for renewal of
many long-term water delivery service contracts, as well as the so-called
South Delta Improvement Project (vastly increase pumping of water from the
San Francisco Bay Delta to the south), are tiered off of the OCAP Biological
Opinion, it would seem that all three of these proposals face some very
serious problems, expressing it modestly.  The law simply has been breached
in the preparation of these documents.

 

Also attached is an article from the Contra Costs Times regarding this
report.

 

Scientific Report:
http://science.calwater.ca.gov/pdf/workshops/OCAP_review_final_010606_v2.pdf

 

Contra Costa Times:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/email/news/13572405.htm

 

 

Byron Leydecker

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Advisor, California Trout, Inc

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org

http://www.fotr.org

http:www.caltrout.org 

 

 

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