Visuals: Banners and signs opposing water bag scheme; citizen testimony to Coastal Commission.

Public Interest and Environmental Groups Decry Controversial Water Bag Scheme
California Coastal Commission Votes Friday to Protest Controversial Plan That Activists Testify Would Lead to Theft of Water

• Draft protests written by Commission staff
• Agenda for the Commission's meeting

• Public Notice for 31194 - Gualala (9/13/02)
• Public Notice for 31195 - Albion (9/13/02)
• Clarification Letter (10/3/02)
• Gualala & Albion / Notices & Info
• Protest Form

• Waterbag fact sheet
• Waterbag chronology
• Status update on the waterbag scheme
• Description of the water rights process
• Public trust doctrine & international trade agreements
• Governor Davis signs Assembly Bill 858

• Water Export - main page

• Waterbag protest deadline postponed
  10/28/02: Alaska Water Exports failed to publish legal notices in local newspapers as required. Consequently, the SWRCB will re-issue notices and allow another 60 day comment / protest period.

• Woolsey Protests Gualala Water Export
  11/13/02: Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) sends a letter to the SWRCB protesting the application by an internationally funded firm to withdraw river from the Gualala River.

• Alaskan firm targets water from Gualala, Albion Rivers
  1/18/02: Reporter Julie Verran broke the story in the Independent Coast Observer.

• Multinationals want Gualala River water
  1/25/02: Early article with good background information, in the Independent Coast Observer.

• Editorial: Water for Sale (search their archive for "water oped gualala").
  3/24/02: Editorial in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

• Water Fight: Gualala and Albion Try to Sink Giant Water Bag Scheme
  7/31/02: Overview article first published in the Pacific Sun.

Photos on our site are available for use as long as credit is given:

• Gualala River estuary, January 2002
  Credit: P.T. Nunn;   size 1280x960
• Albion River estuary, with Hwy 1 bridge
  Credit Laurie York;   size 576x397
• Albion River estuary, aerial
  Credit Rixanne Wehren;   size 501x339

Rights to photos on other sites are the responsibility of those sites:

• Albion River estuary, wide shot
  Coast Democrats' website;   size 645x483
• Waterbag
  Nordic Water Supply's website;   size 720x444
• Large tug
  Nordic Water Supply's website;   size 300x274

• Gualala - point of diversion
• Albion - point of diversion
• Area of Use map for both applications

• Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
• Mendocino County Board of Supervisors
• California Democratic Party
• Gualala Municipal Advisory Council
• Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce

Albion River Watershed Protection Association
Bill Heil
(707) 937-0903
billheil@mcn.org

Friends of the Gualala River
Ursula Jones
(707) 785-3431
ursula@mcn.org

Alliance for Democracy
Nancy Price
(530) 758-0726
ntprice@juno.com

Public Citizen
Jane Kelly
(510) 663-0888, extension 101
jkelly@citizen.org

Sierra Club, Redwood Chapter
Linda Perkins
(707) 937-0903
lperkins@mcn.org

Western Environmental Law Center
Simeon Herskovits
(505) 751-0351
herskovits@westernlaw.org