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The O.W.L. Foundation's
Groundwater Management Plan
Information Page Click Here
The Ailing Russian
Time to think about the health
of Sonoma County's largest source of so-called "surface" water.
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SR Urban Water Management
Plan Shows Foreknowledge of Water Crisis
A graph that appears in
the "Executive Summary" of Santa Rosa's UWMP,
shows planners predict the resumption of
massive groundwater pumping to make up for SCWA inadequacies.
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April 25, 2004
Groundwater
recharge areas
In 1975, Sonoma County's
prime groundwater recharges areas were plotted on a map.
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posted May 14
How
to sustain groundwater
What if Sonoma County could
do in 2003 what Santa Barbara County did in 1994? Read
this important study to find out how.
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How
bad is it?
Take a look at this graph
from Rohnert Park's own hydrological study and compare
for yourself.
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posted May 19
RP Demands Groundwater
Plan
Rohnert Park, just like Penngrove,
demands a groundwater management plan. And why not? Many
counties have already done it. Not doing it could create
a catastrophe greater than an energy crisis.
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posted May 12
Two excellent letters by
knowledgeable geo-environmental professionals who live
in the west county. Read them to understand why so many
people in the Sebastopol area are angry.
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Sonoma County Water
Coalition
Position
Paper on the Water Resource Element
Has
your group joined yet?
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posted May 17, 2004
Groundwater Overdraft: The Facts
The south Santa Rosa
plain is suffering a serious groundwater overdraft and
has been for a very long time. Water officials in Sacramento
warned local politicos of this problem 20 years ago!
Local governmental politicos have long ignored the question
of sustainability of groundwater resources in the Santa
Rosa Plain. Why? Because the available information provide
ample cause for serious concern. Steve Carle, a local
Ph. D. geohydrologist, explains with ample lines of substantiation.
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posted Dec. 7, 2003
Pundits:
Groundwater Can Be "Renewable But Finite Resource"
The "W" in O.W.L.
Foundation stands for "water resource protection".
So what does that mean?
It means everything you find
in an important White Paper issued by the Groundwater Resources
Association of California.
This White Paper offers a
sensible solution to all our groundwater problems in Sonoma
County. This document is an
absolute must read!
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posted July 25th
Water and terrorism?
It should come as NO surprise.
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SCWA:
Don't Count on Eel Diversions
The September 8 Water Advisory
Committee (WAC) meeting was a somber affair. Representatives
of Sonoma county and Marin County water contractors fumbled
around in stunned silence as the import of Sonoma County
Water Agency (SCWA) General Manager Randy Poole's letter
hit home. Water from the Eel River will be cut back, way
back due to a victorious lawsuit against SCWA by the Friends
of the Eel River.
No more increases in water
supplies means no more growth, for at at least a year and
maybe longer---maybe forever.
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posted September 9, 2003
SCWA?
Most
people have never heard of the Sonoma County Water Agency
(SCWA), yet it may be the most powerful entity in the
County.
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Groundwater,
Inherently Invisible, is Disappearing
Two
geohydrologic studies and hundreds of reports from well
owners throughout Sonoma County raise the alarm of groundwater
overdraft.
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posted
November 10, 2003
John King's 2003 letter
to 20 agencies and local governments.
This letter provides
crucial background information on where the water went
and why we are not able to refill our underground reservoirs.
Judge
breaks water contracts
A Federal judge in New Mexico
rules that existing water contracts between a water agency
and cities can and must be broken to save the Rio Grande
Silvery Minnow. All other western water agencies go into
shock and awe.
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posted June 26
Germans and French
Could Sell Your Own Water Back To You
European multi-national corporations,
mostly German and French-owned, are the first in
line to own water in the United States and sell it
back to American citizens.
This is not some nightmare
scare tactic, it's called privatization and it's coming to
a tap near you.
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posted August 11, 2003
Got
Water?
SSU students Paige Phillips
and Shannon Gordon profile John King
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