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http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140103/articles/140109857
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-drought-communities-at-risk-of-5184906.php
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/news/ci_25598790/redwood-valley-cuts-water-ag-users
We're lucky enough to be on a well that's doing fine, so our 20+ little goats will be ok, but the town next to us is not so lucky.
Most of you have probably never given a thought to how the political fucked-up-ness of California extends to water, but in this Northern California area it's always walked the border of devastating... and now here we are. I have friends with kids who are generally very focused on conservation and now are ordered to cut their already slim water usage in half... They're trying to figure out if that comes out of dishwashing, showers or laundry. We've got friends with livestock who have no idea how they're going to fill up the water for their animals in the morning.
MFer... They drained our lake, they (Army Corps of Engineers) refused to fill it up short of an act of Congress, and (National Marine and Fisheries Service) they won't consider entire communities running dry "an emergency".
Go-go gadget big government.
I just hope our well holds out.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-drought-communities-at-risk-of-5184906.php
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/news/ci_25598790/redwood-valley-cuts-water-ag-users
We're lucky enough to be on a well that's doing fine, so our 20+ little goats will be ok, but the town next to us is not so lucky.
The Redwood Valley County Water District voted Thursday night to stop providing the water its customers use for their crops and animals.
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Ricetti said she was not sure what someone with horses or other animals will do for water.
"They're going to have a tough go," she said. "It's a horrible situation. It's sickening."
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In the days leading up to Thursday's meeting, the RVCWD and other agencies tried to obtain more water by diverting more of the flow from the Eel River's Scott Dam through the Potter Valley Project and into Lake Mendocino.
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Guinness McFadden, one of the Potter Valley Irrigation District's board members, said multiple agencies discussed the request and all were in verbal agreement: RVCWD, PG&E, the Sonoma County Water Agency, the Friends of the Eel River, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, the National Marine and Fisheries Service and FERC.
With the amount of water that was flowing through Lake Pillsbury, McFadden said it would have taken less than two days to collect the desired 800 acre feet, all while keeping minimum flows in the Eel River, if the request had been approved.
However, McFadden said when FERC requested agreement in writing, all of the agencies provided it except for NMFS, which determined that the situation in Redwood Valley did not qualify as an emergency.
Most of you have probably never given a thought to how the political fucked-up-ness of California extends to water, but in this Northern California area it's always walked the border of devastating... and now here we are. I have friends with kids who are generally very focused on conservation and now are ordered to cut their already slim water usage in half... They're trying to figure out if that comes out of dishwashing, showers or laundry. We've got friends with livestock who have no idea how they're going to fill up the water for their animals in the morning.
MFer... They drained our lake, they (Army Corps of Engineers) refused to fill it up short of an act of Congress, and (National Marine and Fisheries Service) they won't consider entire communities running dry "an emergency".
Go-go gadget big government.
I just hope our well holds out.

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