On June 3,
2004 the media reported a "sunny day" levee failure at Jones Tract, in the
Central area of the California Delta, nearby Bacon Island. The event
was used to get funding for more CalFed surface storage studies, and the
whole Jones Tract levee failure, time it took to fill the Upper and Lower
Jones Tract, water quality impacts, impacts to the interior levees and
impacts to surrounding islands was all monitored from 6/3/2004. Yet
records that are still found online show that on June 1,
2004, the Delta Cross Channel gates were closed by USBR, which noted the
"Jones Tract levee failure". (see pdf comparing documents found
online. You will note that the DCC operations log found at the DWR
website listed removed the Jones Tract notation).
Even though the discrepancy of dates hasn't yet been
answered by DWR, the fact is a huge amount of tax payer dollars has been
spent on the Jones Tract and In-Delta Studies. For that reason
alone, the maps and documents related to Jones Tract are provided in the
hopes someone can answer the many unanswered questions regarding Jones
Tract and more recently, Bacon Island. Please go to our
In-Delta water storage
page for the full summary. (page under construction 12-2-2010) |
