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"content": "\u003cp>In California, it’s as dependable as the rainy season. Okay, more so. Whenever there’s too much water or not enough, \u003ca title=\"SacBee - post\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/14/6235822/why-dont-we-build-the-auburn-dam.html\">people start talking\u003c/a> about \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Auburn Dam\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Dam\">Auburn Dam\u003c/a>. It’s California’s biggest dam that has never been built — and probably never will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17060\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/auburn_dam_sketch2_crop_.jpg\" alt=\"Auburn Dam\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist’s rendering of how the completed Auburn Dam would appear on the North Fork of the American River. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest revival occurred at a recent show-and-tell for the \u003ca title=\"YouTube - Folsom Spillway\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3eIlLNpr8\">new spillway under construction\u003c/a> at Folsom Dam. Congressman Tom McClintock, R-Auburn, seized the occasion — not so much for congratulations — but to decry recent releases of water from dams on the American River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It infuriates me that for the past three days, we have seen releases of water out of dams on the American River triple in order to meet environmental regulations that place the interests of fish above those of human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressman then pivoted and called for completion of Auburn Dam, a long-stagnant project on the North Fork of the American River originally green-lighted by Congress in 1965, near the end of what the late writer Marc Reisner called the “go-go years” of American dam building. McClintock’s colleague from across the aisle, Sacramento Democrat Doris Matsui, sat nearby, literally shaking her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock told the assembled dignitaries that a brimming Auburn Lake reservoir upstream, “could fill and refill Folsom Lake nearly 2 1/2 times.” The current drought has left Folsom Lake at alarmingly low levels this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the project, designed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, would create one of the state’s biggest reservoirs, with a capacity of more than 2 million acre-feet of water, about half the volume of Shasta Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then McClintock took aim at Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to construct \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/california-to-release-chapters-of-plan-to-restore-delta/\">bypass tunnels\u003c/a> to carry water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the inflated costs we’re seeing today,” said McClintock, “[the dam project] could be done for much less than the current proposal to build a cross-Delta facility that produces zero additional water storage.” (According to Reclamation, there hasn’t been a reliable cost update on the project since 2006.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to extoll other potential advantages, such as, “power for a million homes” and “a major new recreational resource for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/3405918292_99db0a4b41_b.jpg\" alt=\"ADD CAPTION (Alisha Vargas/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations remain from where engineers began laying the foundations for Auburn Dam in the 1970s. 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If you’re more ambitious and \u003ca title=\"EveryTrail - Auburn Dam\" href=\"http://www.everytrail.com/guide/base-of-auburn-dam\">hike down into the river canyon\u003c/a>, you can still see where it was carved out on both sides to anchor the concrete arch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1975, taxpayers had already shelled out about $137 million for the project. But the following year, when a magnitude 5.7 quake occurred a little too close for comfort, Reclamation took a time-out to revisit the dam’s design and work has never resumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dam was redesigned to meet those seismic considerations,” McClintock told me in an interview after his remarks at the spillway. “So yes, that’s already been engineered around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not go back and do a full engineering analysis,” said Drew Lessard, Reclamation’s area manager for central California, referring to an updated study by the Bureau in 2006. He says that in the late 1970s, Reclamation did “move the location slightly,” to minimize seismic impacts. Lessard says that moving forward now would require a full “reformulation study,” reassessing the project’s costs and priorities, and that such a study by itself would take years and cost millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, that thing’s been studied over and over and over again,” said Matsui, in a separate interview. “And you know what? There’s no support for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the California State Water Resources Board revoked the water rights that had been set aside for the Bureau of Reclamation. Most water rights are a use-it-or-lose-it proposition in California, to prevent what the Board calls “cold storage,” which is to say sitting on water rights without actually using the water. Many believed that was the final nail in the project’s coffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, apparently not everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/Auburn_1733.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18177\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/Auburn_1733.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration from a USBR report shows the prospective size and location of Auburn Dam, compared to Folsom and Nimbus Dams, which were built. (USBR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from a USBR report shows the prospective size and location of Auburn Dam and reservoir, compared to Folsom and Nimbus Dams, which were built. (USBR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the project, designed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, would create one of the state’s biggest reservoirs, with a capacity of more than 2 million acre-feet of water, about half the volume of Shasta Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then McClintock took aim at Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to construct \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/california-to-release-chapters-of-plan-to-restore-delta/\">bypass tunnels\u003c/a> to carry water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the inflated costs we’re seeing today,” said McClintock, “[the dam project] could be done for much less than the current proposal to build a cross-Delta facility that produces zero additional water storage.” (According to Reclamation, there hasn’t been a reliable cost update on the project since 2006.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to extoll other potential advantages, such as, “power for a million homes” and “a major new recreational resource for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/3405918292_99db0a4b41_b.jpg\" alt=\"ADD CAPTION (Alisha Vargas/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations remain from where engineers began laying the foundations for Auburn Dam in the 1970s. 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(Tony George/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For me it was all about cleaning up,” he says. “I had been on prescription pain medication for years and years, and for me, I lost my family, house, shut my business down, lost everything.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to the Delta and realized life can be simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beavers get along with the otters, the otters get along with the muskrats, birds get along, everyone seems to co-exist really well,” he says. “Why can’t it be that way everywhere? So I just took it upon myself to fix me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, he started helping out an elderly friend who had the mail route, then took it over full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I’m out here forever now,” Stelzriede says as we head back into the marina at King Island. “I’ll never leave this place. 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Also contributing to the accident was the CPUC’s failure to detect the inadequacies of PG&E’s pipeline integrity management program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said in her opening statement at the hearing that PG&E \"exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight.\" She also said government agencies had \"placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst,\" Hersman said. \"It was a question of when.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/30/live-now-ntsb-san-bruno-hearing/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the NTSB's findings here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent to the explosion, the San Francisco Chronicle drilled down into the details of PG&E's alleged negligence in adequately inspecting and maintaining its pipeline network. 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Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says what he and his neighbors get most concerned about is when there’s both high water and high wind. He knows what havoc that combination can wreak from when he was farming Holland Tract in the western part of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally lost Holland Tract in 1980 due to overtopping,” he says. “The day it flooded, I can still remember, it was a very clear sunny day in February, but the wind was blowing 40-45 mph out of the north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind blew over a large body of water next to Holland Tract, causing larger-than-normal waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I were standing right next to section that broke, sandbagging with workers, to keep it from washing, and we lost,” he says. “The whole 2,500-foot section of levee just rolled over and water poured in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven and his partner reclaimed Holland Tract, draining the island and fixing the levees with government help. He says there have been a few close calls, but never a breach on Terminous. Raising the levees and inspecting and maintaining them with vigilance has a lot to do with that, but Scriven takes nothing for granted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta be lucky,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I head off the island and travel about 15 miles to the town of Rio Vista. I’ve got an appointment there with Janet Bennett, whose family has a long history in the Delta. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett welcomes me into a lovely 100-year-old house at the top of a residential street. It’s very homey, except for the half-dozen tools called clamshell buckets displayed around the yard. They’re huge. Some are taller than I am. For decades, levees were made from tools like these attached to dredgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141078\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural-317x225.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This building is the Dutra Museum of Dredging. Bennett explains that her late mother and stepfather, Ed Dutra, turned this residence into a museum in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett flips through displays of photos and engineering designs of dredgers, hand-drawn on linen. She shows off paintings and scale models of dredgers. There’s a mural that depicts the Delta’s history and physical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that during the Gold Rush, the population ramped up exponentially with both people and animals, and they all had to be fed,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a process called reclamation began. The state sold what it defined as swampland to farmers, who drained it and built levees to create prime farmland. A mostly Chinese labor force built the first levees by hand. Eventually companies used dredgers and clamshell buckets to move sand and mud from the waterways and build up levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says, “Buckets got larger, booms got larger, and this helped in reclamation work here in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dredging played a huge role in building the levees, but today maintenance and repair work looks different. I see that firsthand, about 40 minutes away on Rindge Tract. Three barges sit side by side in the water; the one closest to the levee has a crane attached and the other two are loaded with rock. Project engineer Ryan Abood is overseeing levee maintenance work, and explains the process to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first step is to get the quarry stone on the barge,” he says. That happens at a rock quarry in San Rafael. “Then it’s towed up by tug to this location, which is about a 12-hour, one-way trip for our tugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood says they take two flat deck barges at a time, with each barge carrying about 2,000 tons of rock, which is called riprap. Then the crane barge scoops the rock off the barges, swings it over and places it on the levee to help prevent erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood is 37 years old. He was born and raised in the Delta, in the town of Isleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living on an island so you’re surrounded by levees,” he says. “To get to the river you’ve got to be up on the levees. Growing up, we would ride our bikes around an island all day long, drink the river. If you’re going to go fishing, you’re fishing off the levee. We were always out on the boat, water-skiing, enjoying the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in his 20s he got into a pretty bad accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took my ‘66 Mustang off a levee and rolled it between Rio Vista and Isleton,” he says. “There are a few friends that lost their lives on the levee system, going into the river or head-ons. It’s part of life out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levees weren’t just part of the landscape, though. Abood grew up helping fill sandbags during a flood and watching people do maintenance work on the levees for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was around all the time,” he says. “I always thought it would be cool for me to work in the Delta, work on the rivers, so here I am,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of people like him, the levees are still here, too, part of the interdependent relationship between the water and the people who make the Delta what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Livelihoods Take Hit as Recreation Declines\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-18e-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been getting to know some of the people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. We’ve met farmers, fishing guides and marina owners. All those industries rely on levees that form rims around the dozens of islands in the Delta, holding back the water that can be 20 feet higher than the farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state. So I headed to the levees to meet the people who know them best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Scriven is driving a big truck on the levees of an island called Terminous. He’s in charge of maintaining the levees here, and that means he’s looking for … squirrels. He spots something out his window, stops the truck, and shows me freshly dug holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now here’s something that we’re always watching for, is all this squirrel activity that you see here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a danger sign to Scriven. Squirrels, he says, can burrow into or underneath a levee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they go all the way through, we’ll have water come through the levee,” he explains. “They’re hard workers!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says animals are a main cause of levee failure. On another part of the levee, up on a road, he points out track marks left by a beaver or otter. If beavers make dens in the levees, he tells me, water can seep through, weakening the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water in the Delta rises high above the farmland, and levees hold it back. Scriven says, “If that starts really getting high water, and there’s a lot of pressure, you can have a failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Scriven or one of his employees checks these levees every day, at least once. If they see a wet spot growing, they dig into the core of the levee to intercept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have material, like Gunnite, that we mix with dirt and it becomes very hard,” Scriven says. “We dig below where water is seeping through and build it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance-256x225.jpg\" alt=\"A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"256\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scriven was elected to a governing board on Terminous. Almost every island has one. Besides inspecting and improving the levees, his job includes maintaining pumps and canals. The work is covered in part by money collected from a tax that landowners impose on themselves. Scriven says the government provides funding, too, as long as they can prove they’re improving the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The levee has to be this high and this wide,” he says. “It can have this on the levee, it can’t have that on the levee. If you don’t attempt to reach those standards, you won’t receive funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways, railroads and energy, and petroleum lines depend on strong levees. Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says what he and his neighbors get most concerned about is when there’s both high water and high wind. He knows what havoc that combination can wreak from when he was farming Holland Tract in the western part of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally lost Holland Tract in 1980 due to overtopping,” he says. “The day it flooded, I can still remember, it was a very clear sunny day in February, but the wind was blowing 40-45 mph out of the north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind blew over a large body of water next to Holland Tract, causing larger-than-normal waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I were standing right next to section that broke, sandbagging with workers, to keep it from washing, and we lost,” he says. “The whole 2,500-foot section of levee just rolled over and water poured in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven and his partner reclaimed Holland Tract, draining the island and fixing the levees with government help. He says there have been a few close calls, but never a breach on Terminous. Raising the levees and inspecting and maintaining them with vigilance has a lot to do with that, but Scriven takes nothing for granted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta be lucky,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I head off the island and travel about 15 miles to the town of Rio Vista. I’ve got an appointment there with Janet Bennett, whose family has a long history in the Delta. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett welcomes me into a lovely 100-year-old house at the top of a residential street. It’s very homey, except for the half-dozen tools called clamshell buckets displayed around the yard. They’re huge. Some are taller than I am. For decades, levees were made from tools like these attached to dredgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141078\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural-317x225.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This building is the Dutra Museum of Dredging. Bennett explains that her late mother and stepfather, Ed Dutra, turned this residence into a museum in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett flips through displays of photos and engineering designs of dredgers, hand-drawn on linen. She shows off paintings and scale models of dredgers. There’s a mural that depicts the Delta’s history and physical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that during the Gold Rush, the population ramped up exponentially with both people and animals, and they all had to be fed,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a process called reclamation began. The state sold what it defined as swampland to farmers, who drained it and built levees to create prime farmland. A mostly Chinese labor force built the first levees by hand. Eventually companies used dredgers and clamshell buckets to move sand and mud from the waterways and build up levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says, “Buckets got larger, booms got larger, and this helped in reclamation work here in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dredging played a huge role in building the levees, but today maintenance and repair work looks different. I see that firsthand, about 40 minutes away on Rindge Tract. Three barges sit side by side in the water; the one closest to the levee has a crane attached and the other two are loaded with rock. Project engineer Ryan Abood is overseeing levee maintenance work, and explains the process to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first step is to get the quarry stone on the barge,” he says. That happens at a rock quarry in San Rafael. “Then it’s towed up by tug to this location, which is about a 12-hour, one-way trip for our tugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood says they take two flat deck barges at a time, with each barge carrying about 2,000 tons of rock, which is called riprap. Then the crane barge scoops the rock off the barges, swings it over and places it on the levee to help prevent erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood is 37 years old. He was born and raised in the Delta, in the town of Isleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living on an island so you’re surrounded by levees,” he says. “To get to the river you’ve got to be up on the levees. Growing up, we would ride our bikes around an island all day long, drink the river. If you’re going to go fishing, you’re fishing off the levee. We were always out on the boat, water-skiing, enjoying the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in his 20s he got into a pretty bad accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took my ‘66 Mustang off a levee and rolled it between Rio Vista and Isleton,” he says. “There are a few friends that lost their lives on the levee system, going into the river or head-ons. It’s part of life out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levees weren’t just part of the landscape, though. Abood grew up helping fill sandbags during a flood and watching people do maintenance work on the levees for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was around all the time,” he says. “I always thought it would be cool for me to work in the Delta, work on the rivers, so here I am,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of people like him, the levees are still here, too, part of the interdependent relationship between the water and the people who make the Delta what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Takes Its Case to U.S. Supreme Court",
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"content": "\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster Co. is taking its running battle with the federal government -- and some environmentalists -- to the U.S. Supreme Court. The company said it has filed a petition with the high court asking for a review of an unfavorable ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling said federal courts lack jurisdiction to review former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's 2012 decision to not renew Drakes' operating permit at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81968\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 437px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-81968 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/drakesoysterfarm20121129-640x413.jpg\" alt=\"Strings of mother shells that will contain baby oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co., in 2007 photo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"437\" height=\"281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strings of mother shells that will contain baby oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co., in 2007 photo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If this judgment is not overturned, government agencies will have the power to deny a permit to any individual or business for any reason, without judicial review,” said Kevin Lunny, owner of Drakes Bay Oyster Co., in a press release. “Citizens must have recourse in the face of an arbitrary and capricious decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court is the last hope for the company to remain operational. In January, the 9th Circuit declined a request by Drakes Bay to rehear the case. The court allowed the company to remain open while it appealed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lunny family has run the oyster operation since 2004, when it took over a 40-year lease, issued in 1972 after the federal government bought the land. The company says it produces one-third of all oysters grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joshua Johnson talked today to the current leader of the company's legal team, Peter Prow, who said the main question before the court is whether courts have jurisdiction to review agency actions for arbitrariness and capriciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies most of the time do the right thing, but sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they abuse their power,\" Prow said. \"In this case we think that's exactly what has happened, from the Parks Service and the Department of the Interior, and the 9th Circuit has said we don't even have a chance to have our day in court. And we think that if people can't take agencies to court when agencies misbehave, that's a very troubling precedent for not just the oyster farm but for anyone who deals with the government on any kind of permit or lease or any kind of day-to-day regular application to the government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said it couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News Fix's Dan Brekke recounted the history of the conflict in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/court-rejects-drakes-bay-oyster-company-request-for-new-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At issue in the case is the conflict between Lunny’s decade-old campaign to win an extension to the oyster company’s lease and National Park Service plans to designate Drakes Estero, the operation’s site, as wilderness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/November-2008/The-Oyster-War/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny has long maintained \u003c/a>that the park service not only could but should extend the 40-year “reservation of use and occupancy” first granted in 1972 when the government bought the property from the operation’s previous owner. The National Park Service, operating under provisions of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/upload/lawsandpolicies_publiclaw94_544.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act\u003c/a>, informed Lunny in 2005 of its intention not to extend the lease beyond its expiration date in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny’s chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government’s original agreement to purchase the oyster farm’s property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation’s environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire “would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary’s action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. Ultimately, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected Lunny’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Interior’s action, leading to the 9th Circuit appeal and today’s decision denying a rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused a split between environmental groups that support wilderness restoration at Point Reyes and leaders of the sustainable food movement, who praise Drakes Bay as a model operation. Both sides submitted “friend of the court” briefs during the Drakes Bay appeal. A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation “would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The case has become a cause celebrate of sorts for libertarian-leaning organizations, and Drakes has been supported by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/cases#section=tab2\" target=\"_blank\">frequently sues\u003c/a> government agencies on behalf of businesses and individuals. Earlier on in the case, the issue was taken up by Cause of Action, an anti-government group led by a lawyer with ties to the Charles Koch Foundation. From Kelly O'Mara's \u003ca href=\"http://www.callawyer.com/clstory.cfm?eid=933766&wteid=933766_It%27s_Not_Just_About_the_Oysters\" target=\"_blank\">piece\u003c/a> last month for California Lawyer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accepting Cause of Action's help seemed sensible to Lunny at first, since it was free. But he ended the relationship soon after PBS \u003cem>NewsHour\u003c/em> aired a segment in May 2013 that mentioned the group's involvement. Lunny says his frustration was less about bad PR than the fact that Cause of Action had used his name in publicizing unrelated issues and in arguing for a newspaper to reveal unnamed sources who criticized the oyster farm in a story. But the group's involvement cemented Drakes Bay's position in the center of larger national debates over conservation, management of all types of federal land, and the limits of federal authority. It also made clear how important a precedent Lunny's case could set.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Amy Trainer, Executive Director of the West Marin Environmental Action Committee, which opposes a new lease for Drakes Bay Oyster Co., writes in an editorial for the East Bay Express that the company's petition to the Supreme Court is \"full of false statements of fact and exaggerations,\" calling it a \"desperate move full of desperate arguments.\" You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2014/04/14/opinion-dont-be-fooled-by-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-supreme-court-petition\" target=\"_blank\">read her opinion of this latest legal maneuver in the case here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies most of the time do the right thing, but sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they abuse their power,\" Prow said. \"In this case we think that's exactly what has happened, from the Parks Service and the Department of the Interior, and the 9th Circuit has said we don't even have a chance to have our day in court. And we think that if people can't take agencies to court when agencies misbehave, that's a very troubling precedent for not just the oyster farm but for anyone who deals with the government on any kind of permit or lease or any kind of day-to-day regular application to the government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said it couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News Fix's Dan Brekke recounted the history of the conflict in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/court-rejects-drakes-bay-oyster-company-request-for-new-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At issue in the case is the conflict between Lunny’s decade-old campaign to win an extension to the oyster company’s lease and National Park Service plans to designate Drakes Estero, the operation’s site, as wilderness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/November-2008/The-Oyster-War/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny has long maintained \u003c/a>that the park service not only could but should extend the 40-year “reservation of use and occupancy” first granted in 1972 when the government bought the property from the operation’s previous owner. The National Park Service, operating under provisions of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/upload/lawsandpolicies_publiclaw94_544.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act\u003c/a>, informed Lunny in 2005 of its intention not to extend the lease beyond its expiration date in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny’s chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government’s original agreement to purchase the oyster farm’s property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation’s environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire “would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary’s action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. 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A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation “would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The case has become a cause celebrate of sorts for libertarian-leaning organizations, and Drakes has been supported by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/cases#section=tab2\" target=\"_blank\">frequently sues\u003c/a> government agencies on behalf of businesses and individuals. 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