[env-trinity] SJ Mercury News 1 21 2011

[Byron Leydecker]

Brown puts longtime environmental advocate in charge of state delta policy
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Gov. Jerry Brown has named a prominent environmental leader and renowned
whitewater kayaker as his top official on Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
water issues.

Brown tapped Jerry Meral to be deputy secretary of the California Natural
Resources Agency in charge of the Bay Delta Conservation Planning Program.

Meral, 66 of Inverness, is a registered Democrat who served as deputy
director of the state Department of Water Resources during Brown's
administration in the early 1980s. After that, he was executive director of
the Planning and Conservation League, one of the state's most influential
environmental lobbying groups, until 2003.

Meral, a legendary kayaker for whom Meral's Pool is named on the Tuolumne
River near Yosemite National Park, led efforts in the 1970s, '80s and '90s
against the construction of large dams, helping found Friends of the River
and the Tuolumne River Trust. He served on the board of the Sierra Fund and
Restore Hetch Hetchy.

The Delta is the most important drinking water source in California,
providing water for more than 20 million people and irrigation for millions
of acres of farmland. The Delta has been at the center of conflicts in
recent years, however, as its fish populations have crashed and cities and
farms have struggled to find ways to draw more water, more reliably, from
it.

 

 

Byron Leydecker, JcT

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 land

415 519 4810 mobile

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