Real Decisions to Save California

The exceptional farmland of the Central Valley of California, Salinas, Half Moon Bay, and other coastal pockets are being built upon by housing developments, and denied agricultural water resources. The river systems and their important surrounding wetlands must be restored in order to refill the underground aquifers according to the early California maps showing major tulare and reed areas along all rivers. Catchments, reservoirs, and basins must be built to conserve the precious snowfalls of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At this moment in time, the tremendous snowfall of 2019 threatens to destroy the ill-constructed dam at Oroville and tear apart the antiquated levee systems of the Central Valley. The Russian River continues to overflow on a regular basis and politicians declare states-of-emergency which allow state and federal tax-payers’ dollars to be used to clean up and restore Guerneville; and continually fund dangerous rescue missions of people who disregard official mandates to evacuate. This area should be turned into a State Park and wildlife area; with summer fee-paid access to river and beaches. The eminent domain reclamation payouts would be recouped over several flood periods. Please stop the politics –and fix the infrastructure.