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CITYCOUNCIL MEETING
JUNE 2, 1982
"KO" VOTE URGFD The City Clerk presented for Council's perusal it copy of San
ON PROPOSITION 9 Joaquin County Board of Supervisors' Resolution No. R-82-791,
"Resolution Opposing the Authorization, Funding, and Construction
of the proposed Peripheral Canal as authorized by Senate Bill No.
2DO and urging a "No" vote on Proposition 9 at the June 8, 1982
election".
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE SAN JOA 0%r0A0%
CONTROL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, STATE ALICE Ma
R-82�-��, AL CITY CLERK
CITY OF LODI
RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE AUTHORIZATION, FUNDING, AND CONSTRUCTION
OF THE PROPOSED PERIPHERAL CANAL AS AUTHORIZED BY SENATE BILL
NO. 200 AND URGING A "NO" VOTE ON PROPOSITION 9 AT THE JUNE 8,
1902, ELECTION
WHEREAS, on June 8, 1982, there will be held an election.
throughout the Stare of California at which Senate Bill No. 200
of the 1980 session of the California Legislature will be sub-
mitted to the voters of the State as a result of a referendum
petition which was submitted following the enactment date of
said statute and will appear on the ballot as Proposition 9; and
WHEREAS, said Senate Bill No. 200 in authorizing the con-
struction of the Peripheral Canal will not be in the best interests
of the County of San Joaquin or of its residents and landowners and
presents a threat to the economy of the County and particularly of
the Delta area; and
WHEREAS, the construction and operation of the proposed
Peripheral Canal will require the taking of some 6,000 acres of
prime agricultural land for the construction of the canal itself
and the loss of additional acreage from seepage from that canal,
will cause severance damage to additional prime agricultural land,
will sever and impair utilities and local road systems, will create
significant new flood dangers to agricultural lands and urban areas
within San Joaquin County, will adversely affect the water rights
of water users within San. Joaquin County, and will seriously im-
pair the maintenance of an adequate supply of water of good
qualify for all beneficial uses, and the maintenance of fish,
wildlife, and other recreational resources within this County; and
WHEREAS, the cost of construction of the projects authorized
by Senate Bili No. 200 which are now contemplated to be constructed
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by the Department of Water Resources is estimated to be
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3.1 bi1L3:o% dollars plus unknown additional costs plus interest
with the escalated cost being estimated by the Department of
Water Resources as being 5.4 billion dollars which costs repre-
sent an unreasonable financial burden; and
WHEREAS, there is a viable alternative to the proposed
Peripheral Canal project which would permit the transfer of water
from the Sacramento River through the existing channels of the
Sacramento -San Joaquin Delta to Clifton Court Forebay that can be
constructed much more speedily and at substantially less cost
than the proposed Peripheral Canal project and will not create
all the damage and problems that would be created by the con-
struction of the isolated Peripheral Canal; and
WHEREAS, Gerald T. Orlob, Professor of Civil Engineering
at the University of California at Davis, has examined and studied
the proposed Peripheral Canal and also the proposed in -channel
alternative and has concluded that the alternative water tra.isfer
plan provides significant benefits over the proposed Peripheral
Canal;
NOW, THEREFORE, this Board t"- qupervisors does hereby oppose
the authorization, funding, and construction of the proposed
Peripheral Canal project authorized by Senate Bill No. 200 and
does urge the voters to vote "no" on Prop.sition 9 that will appear
on the ballot at the June 8, 1982, election.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of May, 1982, by the following
vote of the Board of Supervisors, tc wit:
AYES: SUPERVISORS BARBER, WIUIOIT, ALVA, 00SfA, YOSHIKAWA
E NOES: MME
ABSENT: NONE
I-%1CHARD S. YOSHIKAWA, Chairman
' Board of Supervisors
San Joaquin County Flood Control
and Water Cons4rvation District
ATTEST: JORETTA J. HAYDE State of California
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of the San Joaquin County Flood -..•r
Control and Water Conservation
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