Background Behind the Friends' Opposition to Burying the Reservoirs

These documents submitted to the Independent Review Panel form the deep research and background behind the Friends' opposition to burying the reservoirs. These nearly 90 pages reflect the overall position of the Friends of the Reservoirs.

Books on Water Politics, Water Privatization, and Water Wars

• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva
• Blue Gold : The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (paperback)
• Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst by Diane Raines Ward (hardcover)
• Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water by Jeff Rothfeder and Jeffrey Rothfeder (hardcover)
• Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers (paperback)
• Power Politics by Arundhati Roy (paperback)
• (all links go to amazon.com)

Reports from Friends of the Reservoirs

• Friends of the Reservoirs informational brochure (209k PDF)
• Alternatives to Enhance Water Security (144k PDF)

Correspondence from Local Government

• Bull Run Dispatch (131k PDF)
  Includes the Design Competition schedule
  from Bureau of Water Works, September 18, 2003
• Landmarks Commission opposes reservoir replacement project (245k PDF)
  June 30, 2003
• Dan Saltzman's letter in response to the City Council's February 19th hearing on the reservoir burial decision (17k PDF)
  March 3, 2003
• Dan Saltzman's and Eric Sten's response to Charles Heying's request for a public hearing (143k PDF)
  January 24, 2003

Environmental Engineering Firms and Reports

• CH2MHILL
• Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH)
• Scope of Work Mt. Tabor Reservoir Replacement Project (243k PDF)
  from MWH, June 27, 2003
• Permitting Strategy Document (118k PDF)
  The city has used the strategy outlined in this document to avoid complying with Land Use laws
  from MWH, July 2002

Government Agencies

• The Bureau of Water Works

Other Resources

• Great pictures of the Mt. Tabor reservoirs
  courtesy of the Swami Picture site
• Tribune articles on water issues
• State FOIA Laws: A Guide to Protecting Sensitive Water Security Information (375k PDF)
  from the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
• New water plant triumph of community involvement
  from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 10, 2002
• Portland Communique
  Independent online Portland news
• Water Globalization / Think Water Distribution
  from CommonDreams.org, October 3, 2002