Water officials talk about impact of climate change on groundwa...

lol...(my daily "water" entry....this is hard work!)
This is exactly why SqCWD must be merged/termminated as an entity ASAP!
This, as usual, is total "bs" (if you'll excuse the expression) and another inconvenient distraction to addressing our real "water problem".../.sheesh!...

Bruce...(as I've been telling you and your board et al for over 15 years!!!!....)

It's not "climate change" that's our problem...
(by the time that hits us we will have not groundwater left anyway...our poor children and grandchildren...oh, I forgot...you don't have any).

It's 200% overdrafting/overpumping/minin g our groundwater to it's ruination for berry export.
Try this, instead...

http://pogonip.org/eir.htm

Ask your 20 year "GM" Laura Brown, spouse of30year+ Farm Bureau GM Jess Brown. They both know all about it and either can explain it all to you.

SqCWD is lying to us about our groundwater and the desal plant to keep the game going as long as possible.

http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cru...

The Supervisors should immediately declare the groundwater emergency they have been required to for over 10 years.

http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cru...

Now, unfortunately, it's irretrievably shot.
Quit lying, please....and do your job and get this emergency declared!!!

(Denial almost always accompanies substance abuse.
PhD must be from UCSC "Community Studies" Dept.... betcha)

www.begentlewiththeearth.com

Global Warming again... Yawwwwwn. Nope. Sorry. Not the culprit. Quit blaming humans for problems caused by, wait for it... The Lord God. Ok, enough said. Shut up and get real jobs.

http://pogonip.org/WaterDocs/RegisterPajaroni...

Isn't Bruce Daniels the front man for SC's, UC/UCSC's, and SqCWD's $100 million desal plant?
Now a PhD candidate at the new "Water Institute" under Dr. Brendt Haddad?
http://ciwr.ucsc.edu/

Both Bruce Daniels and Daniel Press, head of UCSC Community Studies Dept.(and Dr. Thom LaHue, also SqCWD Board Member) have occupied our local seat on the State Regional Water Quality Control Board for well over the last 20 years!!!!!!!!!!

Query: Is saltwater intrusion a "water quality" problem?

So now when we pump Water out of the Ground we have an Impact on Global Warming. But these same Num-Nuts will tells us How much there saving the Environment when they plug there Electric Cars into the outlet to charge there batteries. Wrong,, unless power comes from Hydro, Wind, Solar or the Big Bad Nuclear, your polluting. Chances are the Power comes from a Coal Plant in the Midwest. So we just export our Pollution to other areas and call ourselfs "Green". I find it fascinating that people Really are that Stupid. No wonder the Government was smart Enough to give your Money Away to there friends and some in the Stock Market were smart enough to Steal your Money.......

Mr. Daniels has an attitude. Give me a break, the remnants of Typhoon Melor hit us. This is not an omen of things to come, but has happened across California in the past.

*August 1891 Campo 16.1"
*Sept. 1918 Tropical Hurricane ashore at Santa Cruz to Red Bluff
*Sept 1932 Tropical Storm came ashore at Mexicali up valley to Tehachapi 7.11" in 4 days
*Sep. 1939 Tropical Storm/Brawley 6.33"
*Sept 1959 Tropical Storm Kathleen/Boulder Creek and Shasta dam >11" (Same storm track as Melor)
*Oct 1962 Typhoon Frieda brings 170 kt winds to Cape Blanco, Oregon/214 staions reported highest ever 3 day totals
*Aug 1976 - 8" at 2.5"/hr reported NW of Redding
*Sept. 1976 Tropical Cyclone Kathleen drops 4" at Mecca
*Aug 1977 Hurricane Doreen came ashore at San Diego, Yuma valley 6.45"/floods

Seems to me this guy has a lot to learn about weather in California, perhaps he should start here:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whhcalif.htm

The problem with ground water is, as it always has been, we pump more then the rains can replenish. This problem is not just here, it is also happening throughout the mid-west.

If I had a vote, Bruce Daniels would be gone.

I'm already conserved into dust... I just looked at my SQW bill and we use 22 gallons per person per day. How much more am I expected to conserve? Should we start taking dust baths or just simply abandon personal hygiene altogether? How about limitations on growth. How about incentives for title 22 water recycling on site or something a little more realistic than the sky is falling approach to public policy?

So the recent storm supposedly supports his conclusions. Except that he says that we'll only have two rainy months. So is October supposed to be one of them? Just like Gore claiming that Katrina was due to AGW. Rubbish.

Is this the same Soquel Water District that wants to fund desal? Talk about wasting energy!!

It's official. ALL of our local agencies are led by nutballs.

Section 3
Existing Groundwater Conditions

Precipitation in the Soquel-Aptos area ranges between 25 and 45 inches per year (Geomatrix, 1999).

Johnson et. Al (2004) states that approximately 15 percent of the rain that falls in the Soquel-Aptos watershed infiltrates the ground and becomes groundwater. The rest flows overland into streams or storm drains, is absorbed by plants, or evaporates.

Given the nature of groundwater recharge in the Soquel-Aptos area, CYCLES OF DROUGHTS AND ABOVE-NORMAL PRECIPITATION DO NOT APPEAR TO HAVE HAD A SHORT-TERM EFFECT on deep, municipal groundwater wells.

Soquel Creek Water District & Central Water District pages 10-11
Groundwater Management Plan – 2007

ABOVE IS WHAT DANIELS APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION:
1) only 15% of our rain percolates to the aquifer
2) AT LEAST 50% of 85% runs off
3) capture 5% of our rain and our supply (FOR EVERYONE) goes up 33%
4)Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary management encourages integrated approaches to water supply that will eliminate new or existing discharges to sanctuary waters. http://ciwr.ucsc.edu/monterey/index.html
5)Keep sediment from washing into the ocean: Monterey Bay Sanctuary http://montereybay.noaa.gov/sac/2008/081508/0...

DESAL DOES NOT HELP THE ENVIRONMENT + IT USES A TON OF ELECTRICITY WHICH MAKES IT THE MOST EXPENSIVE WATER SUPPLY ONE MAY CHOOSE.

ENJOYING THE NEW ROUND OF PRICE INCREASES IN SOQUEL CREEK WATER DISTRICT?

LET YOUR INCUMBENT WATER DIRECTORS CONTINUE WITH DESAL AND YOU'LL SEE higher WATER PRICES.

ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA CHOSE RECYCLED WATER, NOT DESAL AND THEY BORDER THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

"Taking care of groundwater supplies should be everyone's mission, said Herbert and Daniels. Water districts use electricity to pump water out of the ground. If customers used less water, it would mean less water to pump and distribute, which would then save power and reduce the impact on global warming, they said."

Previous investigations have reached different conclusions regarding the location of groundwater recharge to the Purisima Formation. Santa Cruz County has mapped groundwater recharge areas based on an assumption that most recharge occurs where streams cross the outcrop areas of individual Purisima aquifers (See Figure 5-3).

Johnson and others (2004) noted that streams in the area are almost all gaining streams and that groundwater hydrographs suggest a diffuse movement of water from shallow and upland areas to deeper zones in the coastal plain that are tapped by water supply wells.

Additional analysis is needed to determine the relative importance of these two recharge mechanisms and the appropriate geographic extent of recharge quality
protection measures.

Soquel Creek Water District & Central Water District page 75
Groundwater Management Plan – 2007

ASK DANIELS IF THEY DID THE RESEARCH JOHNSON RECOMMENDS OR IF HE WAS FIRED.

TO JUMP OVER JOHNSON'S ADVICE (Soquel Creek's own consultant!) TO EMBRACE DESAL IS VERY TROUBLING.

FOLLOW YOUR MONEY!!

Idiots, there is no credible scientific information to conclude we have global warming. The global warming information presented in Gores film has repeatedly been challenged by reputable scientists to be false or inconclusive at best. The information he used from the UN has found to be in error!! Idiots!

Quite simply, if we pull more water out than is being recharged, we end up with a credible deficit. No global warming information presently can reasonabley be utilized to surpport or discourage this fact. If we have several years of drought, we have less recharge rates. We have had cycles of warm and cooling with accompanying drought for hundreds of years!

Save us!(This IS a Christian paper, after all. She might listen.)

James wrote:

It's official. ALL of our local agencies are led by nutballs.

Don't discount this possibility for a second.!

1) Lets use carbon based generated electricity to desalinate ocean water and then use more carbon based generated electricity to pump it uphill into our teeny Loch Lomond reservoir.

2) We could build a new, bigger reservoir (the one we already paid for)and fill it for free. Then we could let the water run downhill for free.

Which one would you choose? I choose #2. Oops, that's harming the earth by displacing a salamander.

I guess I'll have to return my engineering degree now. I obviously need re-education by PhD candidates who know how to predict the future and are convinced they can alter the earths climatic system.

said Betsy Herbert, environmental analyst for the San Lorenzo Valley Water District. "In Santa Cruz County, we don't import water from anywhere else," she said. "It all comes from local aquifers and forested watersheds. We must take care of them."

ALLOWING storms TO ERODE THE WATERSHED IS the opposite of TAKING CARE OF THEM!

We need to devise methods of capturing storm water and injecting it into the aquifer way up in the hills where the primary recharge areas are mapped. We need research to know the time lag to reach production well areas and it needs to be done in conjuction with the Well Master Plan which is being compiled now because the flow rate in different aquifer levels varies.

If this were done to the tributaries of our streams it would reduce storm run-off erosion which is what the Sanctuary wants and would place water in the aquifer for ALL wells to use.

Or, just to build desal is $54 million (for SqCW, does not tally Santa Cruz Water's 60% contribution) which will triple (minimally) in a 30 year bond payback.

Electricity to operate desal will be a significant expense on top of that.

Scotty!!!

Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

I'm already conserved into dust... I just looked at my SQW bill and we use 22 gallons per person per day. How much more am I expected to conserve? Should we start taking dust baths or just simply abandon personal hygiene altogether? How about limitations on growth. How about incentives for title 22 water recycling on site or something a little more realistic than the sky is falling approach to public policy?

Are we having enough "fun" yet, Mr. Squirrel? 22 gallons a day is probably around what one berry plant gets (just an otr guess)....but, of course, that's free to those guys. The less we use and conserve, SqCWD's revenues go down for their pie in the sky parity plus pay and percs, and the water price is raised. The greatest game in the world. Heads I win, tails you lose.
Sorry, Mr. Squirrel, but I'm afraid the "fun's" just beginning.

"We strongly support the Water for Monterey County effort. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary management encourages integrated approaches to water supply that will eliminate new or existing discharges to sanctuary waters.

This plan is intriguing to the MBNMS since it would not only eliminate existing discharges to the ocean of sewage that is causing impacts,

but it could have the added benefits of eliminating harmful impacts due to desalination brine discharge and entrainment,

as well as mitigating the looming sea water intrusion problem that is an imminent threat.

The Sanctuary supports this integrated collaborative effort and will continue to participate and provide input and encourage a regional approach.”
Brad Damitz, Environmental Policy Specialist, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

http://ciwr.ucsc.edu/monterey/index.html

THEY'RE NOT DOING DESAL IN MONTEREY AND THE SANCTUARY LOVES IT!

SANTA CRUZ/SCOTTS VALLEY DUMP 12.3 MG/DAY IN THE OCEAN.

SANCTUARY SAYS • Contaminants of emerging concern are a serious issue

http://montereybay.noaa.gov/sac/2008/081508/0...

12.3 MG/DAY IS A 24/7/365 FRESH WATER RIVER TO RECYCLE!

WE DUMP IT IN THE SEA DAILY...

First, let's stop relying on private contractors and their bloated work orders - which is what all the local water managers do. If it's not Cal-Am Water, trying to rip off the taxpayer, than it's Camp Dresser McKee and CH2M Hill - which also explains the grossly inflated water rates.

While the article doesn't mention it, all these water managers are backers of the desalination project, which will rely on fossil fuels and so vastly increase CO2 emissions, thus exacerbating climate change.

Desal is being pushed for the benefit of some shady private contractors and state political cronies - as was the case in Tampa Bay, it'll be another $100 million ripoff of the taxpayer that doesn't even work.

Nevertheless, the local press and politicians have all been bought off and are backing this monstrosity - nothing new there.