[env-trinity] Delta Mendota/California Water Intertie

[Byron]

The Bureau of Reclamation will be holding scoping meetings on the Delta
Mendota/California Water Intertie project on August 1st in Sacramento &
August 3rd in Stockton. 

The Intertie would allow more pumping from the delta - in some years 400,000
acre feet more water.  The Bureau and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority
are the lead agencies pushing this project.  They had planned to construct
the Intertie in February 2006.  The Planning and Conservation League filed
suit based on the Bureau's inadequate environmental compliance. 

Now the Bureau is moving forward once again.  The Intertie is being built to
increase water deliveries to San Joaquin agriculture like Westlands.  It
poses the same threats to the Delta that the SDIP does.  Because the
Intertie is a much less complex project, it could be operational much sooner
than the SDIP.  

The scoping meetings will be the first opportunity for public comment.
These meetings also will establish what will be analyzed in the EIS.  The
EIS must include full analysis of impacts to fisheries, water quality, and
impacts to upstream areas.  The Federal Register announcement is attached. 

 Scoping Meetings:

*	Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, Federal Building, 2800
Cottage Way, Cafeteria Rooms C- 1001 and C-1002, Sacramento, CA 95825 

*	Thursday, August 3, 2006, 6 to 8 p.m. Cesar Chavez Central Library,
605 North El Dorado Street Steward-Hazelton Room, Stockton, CA 95202

Byron Leydecker

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Advisor, California Trout, Inc

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

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