Comments on: Farmers promote Delta smelt solution

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:20:16 +0000

Barbara, I have researched both links Wayne has offered.
Neither supports his claim that RTD supports Dr. Pyke’s ideas so I’m at a loss as to why he would offer them.
Perhaps he will share his linkage for us ?

Here is what I found for actual links :

https://www.facebook.com/RestoretheDelta/posts/111907938960612

http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/09/12/brown-levee-fix-is-not-feasible/#Comments

http://restorethedelta.org/blog/what-dr-robert-pyke-has-in-mind/

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:20:39 +0000

In reply to Chris Gulick. Who do you suppose the editor is ?

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:18:23 +0000

In reply to Wayne Lusvardi. That's it ?

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:03:34 +0000

In reply to Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla.

See

“What Robert Pyke Has in Mind” at RestoreTheDelta.com

Feb. 19, 2009

By: I Like Salmon

I Like Salmon — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:02:41 +0000

Why do farmers dislike fishermen? It makes no sense that water can’t be pumped without killing all of the fish! Pump the water correctly or don’t pump it at all.

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:01:16 +0000

In reply to Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla.

See:

Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Pyke: Yo Gov. Brown–fixing Delta levees IS feasible

Restore the Delta.com Sept. 12, 2012

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:36:23 +0000

While the editor has his pen warmed up perhaps he might take a look at this:

“Yet they have a combined 80 years of farming experience in the Delta”

I’ve researched both of their bio’s and find no evidence to support this claim.
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By: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla

Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:26:57 +0000

The reporting on this article is not fully correct. Restore the Delta has not endorsed Dr. Bob Pyke's plan for the Delta. We support the Responsible Export Plan by the Environmental Water Caucus. We think that Dr. Pyke's plan is worthy of further study by expert fish biologists and other scientists. We appreciate the work of Cal WatchDog. Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta Editor’s note: This was corrected in the text. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

By: Chris Gulick

Chris Gulick — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:14:23 +0000

I read the original piece in the CVBT and now this offering and I’m still left scratching my head.
As a long time fisherman, business owner and resident of Sherman Island I’m not just skeptical of the idea of expanding Seven Mile Slough and connecting it to the Sacramento River I’ll just put it right out there and say it won’t fix anything.
The reverse flows mentioned don’t just occur just at the west end of Sherman Island or even only west of False River @ the San Joaquin.
All this will do is move the problem to a new location and not address what I think is the underlying problem of little or no outflow from the San Joaquin River.
If you consider that DWR seriously contemplated damming Three Mile Slough @ the Sacramento River, roughly one mile west of this proposed new conveyance, to control the flow of water between the Sacramento and the San Joaquin AND is almost certainly going to dam False River @ the San Joaquin it begs the question.
What will a “Twitchell Island Channel” really do ?
The only possible benefit I can see would be a potential improvement in water quality for the North Delta Water Agency.
However given DWR’s inability to meet the terms of their contract in the past it seems even that benefit would be dubious at best.

By: ricky65

ricky65 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:46:21 +0000

Leave it to a couple of farmers to come up with an innovative and simple solution to a problem the so-called ‘experts would have us spend untold billions to fix.
Even worse, the expensive proposed fix by the government spin doctors will likely result in the death of the patient. (i.e. the Delta.)
And therein lies the problem. Its so simple that it will not even gain consideration by the government fixers who suffer from ‘tunnel’ vision and intellectual constipation.
Complexifying simple problems is the only skill these folks possess.