Trinity River
From: Dan Nelson, San Luis
& Delta-Mendota Water Authority
Today's decision by Judge O'Neill
to lift the temporary restraining order which prevented the release of water
from Trinity Reservoir results in a significant decrease in the harm originally
expected to occur. Yesterday, the United States reduced their stated need of up
to 109,000 acre-feet of water, which they claimed just last week was the amount
necessary, to now only 20,000 acre-feet. Clearly the scientific justification
they provided last week just couldn't hold up.
From: Catherine Wong, Eureka
Times-Standard
Trinity River water will be
released to protect salmon after a federal judge lifted his order Thursday
afternoon, finding the additional flows critical to preventing a repeat of the
massive fish kill from 2002.
From: Associated Press, Sacramento Bee
From: Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News
From: Associated Press, KFMB-TV 8
A U.S. District judge ruled late
Thursday that water can be released from Northern California's Trinity
Reservoir to prevent a salmon kill in the lower Klamath River, but the amount
of water involved will be far less than the federal government initially asked
for.
From: Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle
A federal judge late Thursday
allowed the government to release water into the Klamath River to protect
spawning salmon, saying the danger of a major fish kill outweighed the loss of irrigation
water to Central Valley farmers.
From: Damon Arthur, Redding Record Searchlight
From: Damon Arthur, Chico Enterprise-Record
A federal judge this afternoon
reversed his earlier ruling and approved sending more water down the Trinity
River to help spawning Chinook salmon.
From: Mark Grossi, Hispanic
Business
A Members of two Northern
California tribes Tuesday demonstrated at Westlands Water District, asking
district officials to drop their lawsuit against water releases that would
protect a large run of salmon.
From: Grant Scott-Goforth,
North Coast Journal
Trinity River water will flow.
The Fresno judge who issued a restraining order on extra releases from the
Trinity Reservoir last week ruled this afternoon to lift the restraining order.
From: Bob Haagerson, KFSN-TV
30
A federal judge ruled the needs
of salmon in a Northern California river outweighed the needs of farmers in the
Westlands Water District.
Water Supply
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
Participation in the Imperial
Irrigation District's water apportionment plan is slowly growing.
More than 42 percent of the
Equitable Distribution Plan's water apportionment acceptance forms have been
turned in, which corresponds to roughly the same percentage of farmable acres
in the Imperial Valley, said Ben Brock, assistant water manager with the IID.
Salton Sea
From: Matt Williams, ACWA
A new interagency report released
this week details a long-term plan for studying and measuring changes at the
Salton Sea.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
At the Delta Stewardship
Council's meeting on August 22, Karla Nemeth, project manager, and Gordon Enas,
engineer, were there to brief council members on the Bay Delta Conservation
Plan (BDCP). The presentation included an overview of the project and how
it fits in to the Delta Plan as well as a in-depth discussion of the capacity
of the tunnels.
From: Mary S. Fuller,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Tunnels are far from
perfect" (Letters, Aug. 22) and "Climate report warns on seas"
(Page A1, Aug. 20): Given the belief that the ocean's level is rising, wouldn't
it make more sense to invest money in desalination of its water instead of the
Delta tunnel project?
Fisheries
From: Steve Carson, Chico
Enterprise-Record
The Sacramento River salmon bite
remains excellent, with numerous boats hitting the water every day this week.
