HomeMy WebLinkAbout78-018WNEREAS, the Board of Supervisors a~ the County of Butte has
established a Water Advisory Committee of knowledgeab~e c~tizens in this
county to advise and counsel the Board on matters of water usage; and
WHEREAS, this Commfttee has reviewed the provisions of Senate
Bill 346; and
WHEREAS, the Butte County Water Advisory Co-runittee has made the
follawing findings:
~. Senate Bi11 346 is not a proper approach to the question of
development of further water sapplies for ~he State of California and
protection of the environment in that it does each of the following:
{a) It attempts to tie the Bureau of Reclamation to concepts
of utilizing fresh water to provide a hydraulic barrier as a condition of
further water development within the State of California and provides that if
the Burea~ of Reclamation does not agree to such conditions, that no further
water development of the projects contemplated within 346 will be allowed and
permitted.
{b) It effectively guarantees that if the Bureau of Reclamation
does not agree to such water quality concepts, which concepts have not been
congressionalZy adopted, that no further water development will occur within
the next five (5) years.
(c) There is no reason to t~e the development of further water
supplies in the State of California to the Per3pheral Canal as occurs in
S.B. 346. The Periphera1 Canal is one of the ways in which further water
supplies may be made avaiZable to portions of the State of California, but
there are other ways, part~cuZarly the development of existing sites including
the logical, care~ully considered and conceived development of North Coast
water supplies.
(d) That the State Water Plan, which was approyed by yqters o~
the State and req~ires that parties who contracted for water under the Project
guarantee to pay the costs of the Project, be now required to dedicate water
at their cost to meet ~eita water quality.
2. SB 346 should be defeated and in its place ind~vidua~ bi11s ~or
individual projects providing for upstream storage and water avai1abi1ity be
passed.
3. Nothing should be included in those fndividual bi1ls attempting
to bind or coerce the Federal ~overnment into meeting transitory po]itical
objectives af the State of Ca~iforn~a in terms of water qua]ity and that any
such water qua1~ty standards should be determined by voiuntary agreement between
the Federal Government and State of Cali~ornid.
4. That prior to consideration of legis1ation requiring projects of
this magn~tude that an Environmenta] assessment be prepared.
NOW, THEREFORE, B~ IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Butte do affirm those findings and petition ~ts representatives in
the State Legislature to vote against SB 346 in its prese~t form, or in any
modified for~ so long as it contains any of the objectives or effects specified
above and only when such tii71 or a suceessor bi11 without such effects or
implications is presented should they vote in favor of such legislation.
PASSED A~D ADOPTED by the Butte County B d of supervisors thls 24th
day of January, 1978, by the following vote~~
AYES: Supervisors ~emke, Ma igan, Mose]ey, Rich er a~d Chairman Wi
~OES: None
ABSE~T: None
~Q7 VO7IN~: None ~ .
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Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
CLARK A. NELSON, County Clerfc and
ex-officio Clerk of the Board
By