In response to what they have termed the state’s “water grab” and in a coordinated, ongoing effort to “Save the Stan,” Oakdale Irrigation District General Manager Steve Knell and South San Joaquin Irrigation District General Manager Peter Rietkerk have jointly released a report identifying their concerns with the plan. According to the general managers, “Any reasonable and impartial cost benefit analysis of the state’s proposal to unfairly divert billions of gallons of water a year from the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced rivers would quickly reach the same conclusion as tens of thousands of Californians: the plan fails on virtually every measureable level.” The joint report goes on to say: It seeks to flush more than an extra 300,000 acre-feet of water down the three rivers – enough to serve about one million families – in a myopic and scientifically unsupported effort to create an additional 1,100 salmon.