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 Supporting Organizations:
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF MARIN
DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA-MARIN (DFA-Marin)
MARIN PEACE & JUSTICE COALITION
Elected Officials:
Mayor LEW TREMAINE, Fairfax;
Vice-mayor LARRY BRAGMAN, Fairfax;
Councilmember PAM HARTWELL-HERRERO, Fairfax;
Councilmember JOHN REED, Fairfax;
Former mayor MARYANN MAGGIORE, Fairfax;
Councilmember RUPERT RUSSELL, Ross;
Councilmember KAY COLEMAN, San Anselmo;
Councilmember JEFF KROOT, San Anselmo;
Vice-mayor FORD GREENE, San Anselmo;
Former mayor PAUL CHIGNELL, San Anselmo;
Former Vice-mayor NICCOLO CALDARARO, Fairfax;
Trustee DIANA CONTI, College of Marin;
Trustee JENNIFER RIENKS, Marin Healthcare Distrist;
Boardmember SUE BROWN, Ross Valley Sanitary District;
Boardmember PAT GUASCO, Ross Valley Sanitary District;
Boardmember MARCIA JOHNSON, Ross Valley Sanitary District;
Boardmember DR. PETER SULLIVAN, Ross Valley Sanitary District;
Boardmember PAM MEIGS RN, Ross Valley Sanitary District;
Councilmember DEBRA FUDGE, Windsor;
Mayor SAM SALMON, Windsor;
Councilmember TIFFANY RENEE, Petaluma;
Mayor SUSAN GORIN, Santa Rosa;
Boardmember ELIZABETH SAPANAI, Stinson Beach
County Water Board;
Councilmember VERONICA JACOBI, Santa Rosa;
Treasurer BARBARA L. PETTY, Fairfax;
Boardmember DENNIS WELSH, Novato Sanitary District;
Other Community Leaders and Supporters:
NORMAN SOLOMON, Author;
PETER B. COLLINS, Radio/TV Host;
ESTER WANNING, Co-Director, Health Care for All-Marin*;
MICHAEL STOCKER, Executive Director,
Ocean Conservation Research*;
BARBARA BARRIGAN-PARRILLA, Campaign Director,
Restore the Delta*;
LISE STAMPFLI TORME, Flood Mitigation League of Ross Valley*;
MARY BETH BRAGAN, Co-founder,
Ecological Options Network (EON)*;
BARBARA GEORGE, Women’s Energy Matters*;
PAUL APFFEL, Democratic Central Committee Marin*;
ANDREW HYMAN, Democratic Central Committee Marin*;
EVELYN WOO, 6th Assembly District Democrats*;
CAROL NELSON, Democratic Central Committee Marin;
REGINA CAREY, Democratic Central Committee Marin;
DOTTY LEMIEUX, Democratic Central Committee Marin;
LYNNE WASLEY, Democratic Central Committee of Marin;
DR. MICHELLE PERRO, Urgent Care Physician;
ALEXANDER BINIK, Exec. Director, DE-Toxics Institute*;
DR. JOHN SEVERINGHAUS, Former Director,
Marin Healthcare District;
PHILIP H. ARNOT, SGV Environmentalist;
JIM GERAGHTY, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition*;
MARY JO RICE, Earth Island Institute*
MARK SQUIRE, Good Earth Natural Foods*;
PETER LACQUES, Fairfax Planning Commissioner &
MMWD candidate, Division 2;
JAMES HEDDLE, Co-founder,
Eocological Options Network (EON)*;
WHITNEY MERCHENT, Founder,
Sustainable San Anselmo*;
ANN SPAKE, Sustainable Almonte*;
GINGER SOUDERS-MASON, Pesticide Free Zone*;
ESSIE BLAU, RN. former Director, Marin Healthcare District;
LORI GRACE, California Election Protection Network*;
BERT BARTSCH
CHRISTY SLOAN, founder, Smart Warrior Marin
DR. ED BOYCE,
EILEEN SIEDMAN,
MARIA CRAFT-NETO,
DAVID SMEDBECK, Realtor,
JON MARCHANT, Realtor
DAVID RANDOLPH, President, Marin coalition*;
BRUCE ACKERMAN, Fairfax GPAC*;
BARBARA SYKES, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition*;
LOWELL SYKES, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition*;
NORMAN CARLIN, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition*;
DIANE HOFFMAN
BARRY TARANTO
CHRISTY SLOAN
DAVID WIENTJES
BARBARA WIENTJES
TINA KROOT
JAY WOOD
PEARL CHIGNELL
OLIVIA CHIGNELL
RONA WEINTROB
JAMES ALLEN
TERRY BALESTRIERE
ELINOR SEVERINGHAUS
STEPHANIE DE SALVO
ELIZABETH BELL
MARK BELL
PATTY BREDT
SHEILA BRYANT
STEWART BRYANT
DON CARNEY
JO CARSON
BASIA CRANE, Marin Coalition*;
MICHAEL DALY, Actor;
HOLLY BRAGMAN, Fairfax Ecofest Coordinator;
HANNAH DORESS, Performing Arts Event Coordinator, SGVCC*;
ALEX EASTON-BROWN
KEN FOX, West Marin Salmonid Advocate;
HELEN FAUSS, Fairfax Open Space Committee*;
JANE GILL, California Groundwater Resource Association*;
DAVID GLICK, MFT
TERRY GOYAN, Fairfax Planning Commissioner;
ERIC HARR, Health and Fitness Expert, CBS News;
CHARLES HICKOX
PATRICE HICKOX
VALERI HOOD, Fairfax Tomorrow*;
RUTH HORN, Fairfax Open Space Committee*;
PETER HUNTER
ANNE HUNTER
CORNELIUS KEANE
JODY KEANE
PATRICIA G. LESAVOY, PHD.
DIANE MILLS
CELA O’CONNOR
JOHN O’CONNOR
JIM RICE
SANDY ROSS, Marin Health Council*;
FRANCOIS SAINT GASSIES
SUE SEVERIN RN,
JOSIE SHAIKEN
STEVE SHAIKEN
ANN SHELDON
ZHENYA SPAKE, Marin Water Coalition*;
GENE SPAKE, Marin Water coalition*;
WARREN WATKINS, North Coast Rivers Alliance*;
KERRY STOEBNER, Marin Water Coalition*;
ZHENYA SPAKE, Marin Peace & Justice Coalition;
LOUISE YOST
JOAN RIPPLE
ANNETTE THAN
NAN DALY
NATILIE HICKS
FLETCHER RUHKE
TONY YUDICE
MARIA ELENA PEREZ
BARBARA SYKES, Marin Peace & Justice Coalition;
CELA O’CONNOR
JOHN O’CONNOR
ARTHUR MORITZ
BERNIE STEPHAN
LINDSEY VUTEK
DAVID HASKELL
SUE SEVERIN
CRAIG SLATER, Marin Peace & Justice Coalition;
MARITA MAYER
JOHN REYNOLDS
COLLEEN ROSE
RALPH HOLT
BRAD FLAHARTY
ALAN BARNETT
PATRICIA MURRAY
DAVID QUIMBLY
JOANIE LEVINSON, Marin Water Coalition*;
GAYLE MILLS
GEORGE MILLS
ALLEN BLAU
INGRID WEISS
LEONARD WEISS
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*Organization names and titles are used for identification purposes only and do not imply an official endorsement by the organization.
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A DESALINATION PLANT ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY?
Oct 17, 05:40 PM– Frank Egger first called for the public’s right to vote on the Marin Water Board’s (MMWD) proposed Desalination Plant on San Francisco Bay in 2006.
The Marin Water had refused to allow the public the right to vote on the “new” water source until over 15,000 Marin residents signed Initiative petitions to qualify it for the Nov 2nd election. The Marin Water Board relented and not only placed the Citizen’s Initiative on the ballot as Measure T but they also placed their own competing ballot Measure S first, designed to confuse the public and defeat Measure T, on the same ballot.
Measure S will allow the Marin Water board to spend another 4-5 million dollars contracting for engineering and architectual plans and specs in-order to secure local, state and federal permits. If the Water Board did not intend on going forward, why would they get site specific approvals from the Bay Conservation & Development Commission (BCDC), SF Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board (BARWQCB), California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Corps of Engineers, etc. before the public is allowed a vote to finance the Project.
Please vote Yes on T and No on S.
Five public water agencies, including Marin and San Francisco, are looking at building desal plants on an already compromised San Francisco Bay. Marin’s is expected to cost $400 million to construct, finance and operate over 30 years and our ratepayers will have to pay through higher water bills.
MMWD wants to locate its plant next to Home Depot in San Rafael between the old unlined toxic dump sites in East San Rafael and the Richmond oil refineries’ tanker loading docks. No one is addressing the issue of a potential oil spill in the shipping channel under the Richmond-San Rafael bridge and its potential impact on Marin’s expensive desal plant.
The approved Project (Aug 19, 2009) will produce 5 million gallons per day and can be expanded to 15 MGD. It is below the Central Marin Sanitary Agency’s sewer treatment plant discharge pipe and the desalination intake will suck up polluted bay water especially with the outgoing tide.
Our bay needs more fresh water flows and it most certainly does not need desal’s devastating adverse impacts on local marine ecosystems. As Peter H. Gleik, president of the Pacific Institute said in the SF Chronicle story (10-12-06)Flushing water and money down the drain—“Many state leaders on both sides of the aisle still fail to recognize California’s conservation and efficiency potential and regularly call for… And new subsidies for expensive ocean desalination plants. It makes no sense to produce expensive desalinated water just to flush it down inefficient toilets”.
The city of Santa Barbara, wanted to become drought proof and in 1990 built a $34 million desal plant. It has never been used and sits today, partially dismantled, a $34 million dollar white elephant. The energy costs alone to run their desal plant kept it idle. We can learn from other’s mistakes. Yes on T, No on S.
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