From Melinda Terry, Executive Director, North Delta Water Agency:
FYI – In case you missed it, Agenda Item #14 of the Delta Stewardship Council’s agenda this Thursday, December 19th is a presentation of the adverse impacts in the BDCP EIR/EIS.
Here is a link to the agenda: http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/
And a link to the cover letter about the overall plan for the day: http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/
There
are 750 adverse impacts identified in the EIR/EIS – everything from
Agriculture to Water Quality -- 48 of them are categorized as
“Significant and Unavoidable” which means they will not be mitigated or
remediated to a level of insignificance.
Here is the link to the DSC staff document outlining Agenda Item #14’s discussion of BDCP impacts: http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/
So
if you want to make sure the DSC is aware of impacts that may matter to
you such as non-navigable waterways/channels due to cofferdams and
river barge facilities, noise and vibration from daily steel pile
driving, loss of running water in home due to dewatering activities,
increase in response times for emergency vehicles due the increased
construction traffic volume, degradation of water quality at your
agriculture or municipal water intake, risk of sink holes/subsidence
that may pose risk to levee stability – then you will want to show up
and testify at the hearing.
Hopefully the DSC will take this
opportunity to explain to the public, particularly Delta residents how
they plan to fulfill their statutory responsibility to protect Delta As
Place, which you can offer your views as well.
See you then, Melinda
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