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Related: About this forumCalifornia’s drought plan will screw the environment
http://grist.org/news/californias-drought-plan-will-screw-the-environment/?w=470&h=264
California rivers like this one will be allowed to run drier this year than ever before.
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The seven-and-a-half-month plan, developed in consultation with federal officials, doesnt increase the amount of water that will be delivered to customers, but it makes major changes to how precious drops remaining in snowpacks, reservoirs, and rivers will be managed. The Sacramento Bee hits on the plans highlights:
Among other things, the plan calls for further loosening of water quality rules in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, allowing the agencies to keep river flows low to preserve as much water as possible in upstream reservoirs, especially Shasta Lake. Temporary dams are proposed on three Delta channels to allow the remaining freshwater runoff to more effectively push back saltwater intrusion from San Francisco Bay.
It also calls for additional hatchery breeding of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. Normally, those young salmon would be released into the Sacramento River. But because the river could become too warm to sustain them, some of the fish may be relocated into cold-water habitats where they have not existed for decades, such as Battle Creek near Red Bluff.
Environmentalists are warning that these steps could decimate wildlife populations that rely on Californian rivers for their survival. Its a disaster, sport-fishing advocate Bill Jennings told the Bee. The storage theyre talking about saving isnt going to be enough to protect the rivers from high temperatures. It is a complete breach of trust, an almost total rejection of laws and regulations.
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California’s drought plan will screw the environment (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2014
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GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)1. No matter how they slice and dice it, there's going to be a disaster.
All that this does is shuffle the impact around a bit.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. I'm sure a market-based technological solution will present itself
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. kick, kick, kick.....
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)4. And kick again! Alas…..