drainage

A coalition of environmental groups has written the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expressing deep skepticism about a planned drainage "solution" for the Westlands Water District. To read the letter click HERE.

"In the San Joaquin Valley, about 1.5 million of the 5.6 million irrigated acres have drainage-related problems. In Westlands alone, over 200,000 acres have saline groundwater within 10 feet of the soil surface."
From the Westlands Water District website
www.westlands.org on January 24, 2001. (See www.InternetArchive.org )

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By brthomas
Selenium, arsenic and other toxins that are released from these irrigated toxic waste farms pollutes southern California. These pollutants then return north via the San Joaquin River to poison the California Delta and San Francisco Bay. ...
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California environmental groups have grown increasingly concerned that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is secretly negotiating a "sweetheart" deal with the Westlands Water District that will harm the Delta and will allow continued irrigation of high selenium soils. Environmentalists remain deeply suspicious of Westlands' claim that it has a viable solution for the drainage crisis affecting the western San Joaquin Valley. Westlands, which only has a few hundred growers, is seeking enough water annual to meet the needs of a city of 10 million people. The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) and the California Sportsfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) recently wrote Sen. Feinstein to express their concerns.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE LETTER TO FEINSTEIN