Issue:
"Garbage in, garbage out". Use of computer modeling to determine
impacts from proposed actions in the Delta can be an effective tool IF,
and only IF, the raw data is input correctly. When incorrect or
false raw data is input, common sense says the output will also be
incorrect. Currently, challenges to data input and output of
computer modeling are ignored or explained away by comments like the DSC
mantra "we're using the best science available". Since, like historical
facts, incorrect raw data imput is a provable and measurable item, it is
a matter of time for the legal impacts of use of false data (to validate
revision of the Delta)
will affect the state agencies and the contractors who generate the
false data.
Examples of computer modeling data imput:
How State Water Contractors will
make at least $1.5 billion extra per year by revision of Yolo Bypass
flow modeling(video 10/19/2011), Waterflow calculations,
DRMS Phase 1,
Bacon Island-Jones Tract
studies.
Below are maps from different reports utilizing computer modeling for
salinity, flow, toxins, and more. Click on the thumbnails to see
the full size and to see the reference website link if you want to go
see the full report. In the meantime, if you want to go to the
government websites with modeling reports, use key words like CALSIM,
DSM2, Trim or UnTrim, REALM at
http://www.water.ca.gov
The very detailed reports for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Ship
Channel dredging and the SDIP plans provide extensive "results" computer
modeling for the effects on the whole Delta region, it appears. |
