Pajaro Valley leaders celebrate new water source

When city residents take a shower, flush a toilet or wash dishes, the water's no longer just going down the drain.

[Sonshine]

Great Start! Now, if we could educate the state about the importance of farm land and water consumption, they would stop requireing us to over building our comunities to meet there building requirements beyond the ability to support water consumption.

[Ben T Boga]

Good job Donna! You really are a crack reporter. You got it down practically word for word.

[Pepsi]

Bottle it!$5.95 a pint. YUM.

[Tfe Real World and PVWMA]

Claim #1. "Bannister said the agency estimates it needs 18,500 acre feet of new water to balance the basin." "It's a huge piece of the overdraft puzzle," said agency board chairman Dennis Osmer.
False: Basin sustainable yield is 24,000 acre feet per year
Basin use is from 62,000-70,000 acre feet (see below)
www.begentlewiththeearth.com (not 18,500 a/f, sorry).
That's the current overdraft in the real world.

Claim #2. "That's 4,000 acre feet agriculture doesn't have to pump out of the ground, about 22 percent of the overdraft," he said."
False: 4,000 acre feet is around 10% of the overdraft in the real world.

"Last year, about 62,000 acre feet of water was pulled from the ground, according to Mary Bannister, general manager of the water agency.
Pumping is climbing every year, she said. Ten years ago, the valley was using about 52,000 acre feet." In 1998, it was over 70,000 a/f year
(see www.begentlewiththeearth.com Sentinel front page article)

Also, please don't forget there's no more pipeline...13.4k/a/f/yr AND the basin is permanently pumped down 88% below sea level all year now (after 2-3 decades of berry abuse/overdraft and water theft/expropriation.

So...there is no feasible Basin Management Plan anymore, Folks. Sorry to report.

I spelled this all out in an earlier comment that the Sentinel dumped.

If you read this paper and rely on the information contained in the articles, you might as well be reading a comic book. Also sorry to respectfully report, Folks.