[GPSCC-chat] Toxic silicon valley

[Wes Rolley]

There was a time when this list had regular updates about the Silicon 
Valley Toxics Coalition http://www.svtc.org/.  At that time, we had an 
activist working there.  That has long gone away.

I would like to call attention to a new report just released by the 
State Water Resources Control Board.  
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/surface-waters-toxic-scientists-say-6935

    According to scientists who have been monitoring and collecting data
    on the state's water quality for the past 10 years, California's
    surface waters are in bad shape.

Might it not be worth our spending some time going further into this 
issue and defining a local position?

Think about this.  The California Water Wars are ongoing.  No peace 
treaty is even being drafted.  The heavy money has even dropped out of 
the Bay Delta Conservation Plan effort and wants to continue running 
selenium poisoned agricultural runoff into the Delta from which our 
water district pumps a large amount of our water.  
http://aquafornia.com/archives/35964  Read Green Lloyd G. Carter's 
Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood for more on this issue while you 
think about that fact that this is not just a Central Valley problem  It 
is our water too.
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/101123448_the-westlands-water-district-has-come-out-against-bay-delta-conservation-plan


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