Fresno County Board of supervisors will decide over the next year to decide whether or not global materials distributor CEMEX can extract out of the river near Woodward Park. The San Joaquin River runs through Woodward Park, and CEMEX, which is the largest distributor of concrete globally, proposes to have a 100-year mining contract. Currently they want to use explosives to extract a large amount of gravel from the river. The San Joaquin River is one of the two major river systems in the Central Valley, including the Sacramento River.
–Written by opinion editor Juan Muratalla.