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City of Lodi
Lodi, California
RESOLUTION NO. 2031
URGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LEGISLATIVE JOINT
INTERIM CQKKr=E TO ESTABLISE POLICY FOR TUE
XUAGE NT OF.THE DELTA FEATURES OF.THE CALI-
FORNIA WATER PLAN..
WHEREAS, salinity control in, and transfer of high
quality water across, the Delta with least waste is essential to
successful operation of the Feather River - San Luis Project,
and,
WHEREAS, units of the California Water Plan to accomplish
cross transfer, salinity and flood control have been recommended
in an excellent document of the State Department of Water
Resources entitled Bulletin 50, March 1957, and
WHEREAS, these works are essential to accomplishment of
each and every use of the California Water Plan and are essential
to conserve and export water from Northern California and are
essential to transfer good quality water from the Sacramento and
Mokelumne Rivers at Walnut Grove to the Old River intakes of the
Delta Mendota Canal and Italian Slough Pumping Plants in Alameda
and Contra Costa Counties, and
WHEREAS, construction of the features will be on a step-
by-step basis and completion of any and each step will have
great and damaging or beneficial effects on the agriculture,
fisheries, recreation, industrial and residential land and water
usage its the Delta, and such change first will affect Contra
Costa County, and
WHEREAS, the plans for crone transfer, salinity and flood
control features of the California Water Plan assume that on
completion all features will be operated in accordance with
policy recommended in Bulletin 25 issued in 1930, which policy
has not been enacted into legislation, and which policy is not
being adhered to in operation of Shasta Dam, and
WHERRAS, Delta landowners may have to oppose adoption
of the cross transfer, salinity and flood control features until
firm policy has been Witten in legislation regarding the costs
of "replacement watorl* and the sequence of step-by-step con-
struction of master levees, fishways, boat locks and return drains
for wastes from irrigation,, industrial and community activity, and
WHZREAS, only Solano, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus,
Merced and Contra Costa County are damaged or benefited by major
modification of the Delta, the separation of lands from access
to fresh water and provision of drainage ways, and
W,U, REAS, the interests and concerns of these Counties
are indepiide t, of plans for development of upstream storage and
agaedacts or of the #counties of origin' vs. °areas of deficiency"
controversy, and these interests and concerns are best considered
separately and dist;inctlyg,
NOW THEREFOR , BE IT RISOLVED that the Legislature be re-
queasted to appoint a Joint Interim Committee of Legislators
from Solano, Sacramento, Sari Joaquin, Stasnislaus, Merced and
Contra Costa Counties to hold hearings, investigate and determine
policy to bo presented to the Legislature, which whenenacted
into law will provide. Delta landowners with a definite timetable
of construction, which will..g ,ae these full opportunity for assess-
ing the. probabilities of benefit and damage, which will state
policy regarding delivery of "replacemo-eat water" to lands served
from existing waterways, and which will be the bazis for their
planning future use of Malta lands, and
BE IT FUSTUR 19301MAthat tta Soards of. Supervis ors of
Svlasno,. Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus W 1Iereed Counties,
a icipalities, individuals and cdr ations therein, be requested
to join in' this presentation to the Legislature.
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I HEREBY CER'TIF'Y that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of Resolution No. 2031 passed and adopted by the City Council
of the City of Lodi in regular meeting held June 19, 1957.
Dated: June 20, 1957
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HEATHY A. CLAVES, JR.
City Clerk