Monterey Bay researchers say dolphins are causing porpoise deaths

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

[Monterey Bay Conservancy]

1. "Bannister said the agency estimates it needs 18,500 acre feet of new water to balance the basin."

2. "It's a huge piece of the overdraft puzzle," said agency board chairman Dennis Osmer.

Both of the above statements are wildly incorrect and very misleading.

The current sustainable yield of the basin (2000 BMP) is 24,000 acre feet per year. The use has ranged between 62,000 to 70,000 acre feet per year over the last 15-20 years, at least. Therefore, the 4,000 a/f recycled water is around 10% of the problem.

Also, remember, there's no more pipeline (that's 13,400 a/f/yr) therefore..
THERE IS NO MORE FEASIBLE/WORKABLE BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN ANYMORE after 25 years and tens of millions of dollars, along with the Aromas Red Sands basin, permanently down the drain (...and I haven't even gotten to the 20-30 yr and running Farm Bureau/SqCWD/PVWMA Water/Berry Ponzi Scheme yet)!!!

Therefore the overdraft is between 38,000 to 46,000 acre feet per year. This causes yearly the worst saltwater intrusion loss in the world through berry overuse and groundwater expropriation/export in berry product, according to the late Marc Reisner, speaking here in 1998...15,000 acre feet of loss per year.

The inaccuracy of the statements above is the main reason this agency must be terminated ASAP and a new regional agency and approach crafted. Water triage/demand management is all that's left now.

My links below substantiate my statements above.
Please review them to confirm these facts for yourself.

www.montereybayconservancy.org

The Board of Supervisors, through declaration of an emergency, and the courts will be the only way this catastrophe will be addressed.

The basin has been permanently pumped down to 88% below sea level, year round now, after PVWMA quater century of "management"
..causing the greatest permanent human caused environmental catastrophe in the history of the Monterey Bay Region.

Regretfully reported,
Douglas Deitch ED

[On the Beach]

Monterey Bay Conservancy wrote:

1. "Bannister said the agency estimates it needs 18,500 acre feet of new water to balance the basin."
2. "It's a huge piece of the overdraft puzzle," said agency board chairman Dennis Osmer.
Both of the above statements are wildly incorrect and very misleading.
The current sustainable yield of the basin (2000 BMP) is 24,000 acre feet per year. The use has ranged between 62,000 to 70,000 acre feet per year over the last 15-20 years, at least. Therefore, the 4,000 a/f recycled water is around 10% of the problem.
Also, remember, there's no more pipeline (that's 13,400 a/f/yr) therefore..
THERE IS NO MORE FEASIBLE/WORKABLE BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN ANYMORE after 25 years and tens of millions of dollars, along with the Aromas Red Sands basin, permanently down the drain (...and I haven't even gotten to the 20-30 yr and running Farm Bureau/SqCWD/PVWMA Water/Berry Ponzi Scheme yet)!!!
Therefore the overdraft is between 38,000 to 46,000 acre feet per year. This causes yearly the worst saltwater intrusion loss in the world through berry overuse and groundwater expropriation/export in berry product, according to the late Marc Reisner, speaking here in 1998...15,000 acre feet of loss per year.
The inaccuracy of the statements above is the main reason this agency must be terminated ASAP and a new regional agency and approach crafted. Water triage/demand management is all that's left now.
My links below substantiate my statements above.
Please review them to confirm these facts for yourself.
www.montereybayconservancy.org
The Board of Supervisors, through declaration of an emergency, and the courts will be the only way this catastrophe will be addressed.
The basin has been permanently pumped down to 88% below sea level, year round now, after PVWMA quater century of "management"
..causing the greatest permanent human caused environmental catastrophe in the history of the Monterey Bay Region.
Regretfully reported,
Douglas Deitch ED

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river..,

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
-T. S. Eliot

[dON hEICHEL - sOQUEL]

They also partially regenerate the aquifer with 2,000 AF/Year by diverting water from Harkins Slough and injecting to groundwater.

Everyone wishes it was enough...

It is NOT!

There is still an embarrassment of storm-water carrying DDT to the Bay and eroding our watershed every year.

Tell our leaders to focus on things that help the situation...desal is NOT the answer.

[Get current]

dON hEICHEL - sOQUEL wrote:

They also partially regenerate the aquifer with 2,000 AF/Year by diverting water from Harkins Slough and injecting to groundwater.
Everyone wishes it was enough...
It is NOT!
There is still an embarrassment of storm-water carrying DDT to the Bay and eroding our watershed every year.
Tell our leaders to focus on things that help the situation...desal is NOT the answer.

DDT was banned years ago ... it is no longer in use.

[Lorraine]

Eeewwww...recycled water? Why not learn to collect rain water.

[Water is Life]

The link to agriculture is complicated and important. We cannot ignore the fact that the central coast does need Ag jobs and the resulting tax revenue…. However we cannot just roll over and give industry whatever they want as a result.

Just remember that when the water runs out these large Ag businesses will simply move on to different production areas.

Result: Central Coast has no jobs & no water.

How can we encourage the Ag industry to be better stewards of OUR land and water resources? Why is it so hard to find the happy medium? Whose responsibility is it to insure future water supplies?

Santa Cruz resident that enjoys drinking water.

[horsehickey]

dON hEICHEL - sOQUEL wrote:

They also partially regenerate the aquifer with 2,000 AF/Year by diverting water from Harkins Slough and injecting to groundwater.
Everyone wishes it was enough...
It is NOT!
There is still an embarrassment of storm-water carrying DDT to the Bay and eroding our watershed every year.
Tell our leaders to focus on things that help the situation...desal is NOT the answer.

For a long term sustainable supply of potable water, desal is the answer. You can push numbers, recirculate all the water you want, but, it will not replace what is being used. There is a huge political fight with desal, and it involves our so called leaders. Take a look at Cal Am and the mess with over pumping. 13 years, and they still have nothing. Now our so called leaders are stalling again. It's everywhere along the coast. The best sustainable long term water supply is to the west of us all.

[Duh]

Well, once the farmers pump enough water out and the salt water intrusion leaves the wells unusable, they'll then give donations to the local supervisors to enable the farm land to be rezoned to residential. Money talks! Big money screams!

[PaPaw]

Get current wrote:

<quoted text>
DDT was banned years ago ... it is no longer in use.

Yes it was banned years ago and now it is leeching out of the ground and into the lakes and streams.

[mission accomplished]

El Gringo wrote:

Well I guess the strawberries now will taste like sh it!

Who'll notice? THey already do...But they sure are big and pretty...and you know, that's what really counts when you're eating strawberry shortcake in Boston at Christmas time. GOod start PVWMA, but this is a long way from a sustainable solution. Also, DDE continues to run off with erosion, but not DDT...Of course back in the day, we were told that was our godsend cure all too.

[Ben T Boga]

The recycled water is full of salts that will accumulate in and degrade the soil. A major contributor to the salt load is the use of water softeners in homes. The Governor recently signed a law allowing the banning of salt process softeners. Does anyone think that PVWMA or COW will have the guts to utilize this new law?

[freedom]

Does anyone know how many connections are served by this? on the map it looks like 25.

[Certified Water Operator]

Monterey Bay Conservancy wrote:

1. "Bannister said the agency estimates it needs 18,500 acre feet of new water to balance the basin."
2. "It's a huge piece of the overdraft puzzle," said agency board chairman Dennis Osmer.
Both of the above statements are wildly incorrect and very misleading.
The current sustainable yield of the basin (2000 BMP) is 24,000 acre feet per year. The use has ranged between 62,000 to 70,000 acre feet per year over the last 15-20 years, at least. Therefore, the 4,000 a/f recycled water is around 10% of the problem.
Also, remember, there's no more pipeline (that's 13,400 a/f/yr) therefore..
THERE IS NO MORE FEASIBLE/WORKABLE BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN ANYMORE after 25 years and tens of millions of dollars, along with the Aromas Red Sands basin, permanently down the drain (...and I haven't even gotten to the 20-30 yr and running Farm Bureau/SqCWD/PVWMA Water/Berry Ponzi Scheme yet)!!!
Therefore the overdraft is between 38,000 to 46,000 acre feet per year. This causes yearly the worst saltwater intrusion loss in the world through berry overuse and groundwater expropriation/export in berry product, according to the late Marc Reisner, speaking here in 1998...15,000 acre feet of loss per year.
The inaccuracy of the statements above is the main reason this agency must be terminated ASAP and a new regional agency and approach crafted. Water triage/demand management is all that's left now.
My links below substantiate my statements above.
Please review them to confirm these facts for yourself.
www.montereybayconservancy.org
The Board of Supervisors, through declaration of an emergency, and the courts will be the only way this catastrophe will be addressed.
The basin has been permanently pumped down to 88% below sea level, year round now, after PVWMA quater century of "management"
..causing the greatest permanent human caused environmental catastrophe in the history of the Monterey Bay Region.
Regretfully reported,
Douglas Deitch ED

I worked for the PVWMA in the early 1990's and the main problem is not necessarily a lack of other water sources to solve the overdraft. The main problem is the usual suspects; (1) left wing, radical, environmental extremists who scream and whine about every workable solution,(2) corrupt politicians who make decisions for the powerful or who refuse to make a decision at all, and (3) the large water users, the farmers, who whine about the tab and fight all efforts to solve the issue because it will cost them money. There are two ways to go in the Pajaro Valley, either stop all the fighting and whining and put up the money and do what is necessary to import the needed water OR stop farming in the valley. From what I saw during my time there at the PVWMA, neither solution seems possible or probable.

[treehugger]

A year or two ago I watched some animal show on tv that showed dolphins doing this same thing in other parts of the world. Why are our researchers so surprised, as though they had no clue such a thing could happen????