RE: 'Meeting held on Santa Margarita project' [Village News, 11/6/08]

The Santa Margarita River Conjunctive Use Project (SMRCUP) September 29 meeting, chaired by W. Steele, US Bureau of Reclamation, was “to update the public on this project and obtain input on issues that should be studied in the EIS/EIR (environmental) process. Many attendees, including me, are members of the Sierra Club.

Mr. Steele presented a brief SMRCUP timetable from the 1920s to 2005. Following discussions involved environmental issues and costs only. Mr. Steele firmly disallowed other issues/topics. Joe Naiman’s description of this meeting (Village News 11/6/08) was disappointing. Most o...