Foothill Conservancy Tell EBMUD to reject Pardee expansion

This rapid would be drowned if Pardee is expanded.

Use this form to send e-mail comments on the Pardee expansion. Tell the EBMUD directors to protect the Mokelumne River through conservation instead of expanding Pardee Reservoir.

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Dear East Bay MUD: I urge you to drop your plans to build a new Pardee Dam and expand Pardee Reservoir as part of your 2040 water plan. � A new dam will be too expensive for EBMUD ratepayers, be an uncertain water supply, and harm miles of the Mokelumne River as well as the Delta and its fisheries. � Enlarging Pardee upstream will drown a part of the Mokelumne popular for kayaking and fishing, require removal of the historic Middle Bar Bridge and river access facilities, inundate important cultural resources, require construction of a new Highway 49 bridge, and seasonally inundate nearly a mile of river proposed for National Wild and Scenic River designation by the Bureau of Land Management. � Enlarging Pardee will destroy decades of work and investment by public agencies and local residents to improve recreational use of the Mokelumne River, thwarting local efforts to use the river for economic development. � Creating dead-end roads approaching the river will cut off a critical fire evacuation route for residents of Middle Bar and Gwin Mine roads. � The only one of the five Pardee Expansion options that doesn't flood at least another mile of the Mokelumne and destroy the Middle Bar Bridge is Option 1. � Retaining the Pardee Expansion in the plan while rejecting other options is simply arbitrary and ignores viable alternatives. For example, if EBMUD worked with the Contra Costa Water District, it could reserve storage space in the proposed expansion of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir (which is located offstream and would have fewer environmental impacts). It's time to get over interagency regional disputes and find lasting, environmentally sound solutions. � The expansion is opposed by a broad range of interests: the cities of Richmond and Berkeley, upcountry governments; conservation, community, fish, historical preservation, and recreation organizations; federal agencies; and many individuals. More than 1,000 comments were submitted on EBMUD's water plan, most opposing the Pardee expansion. It's time for EBMUD to listen to those concerns. Please leave these miles of the Mokelumne a river for future generations.

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