San Joaquin Delta water users alarmed by salmon report
Story
from Modesto Bee – Monday, Oct. 4, 2010
Coalition viewpoint…It is stunning that the very people who have the biggest interest in seeing salmon populations recover minimize the factors that may very well be the answers to their problems. Zeke Grader and Mike Jackson both continue the tired old story of blindly increasing Delta flows while they all but dismiss factors such as pollution and predatory fish. A 2009 report by the National Marine Fisheries Service called predation on Chinook salmon a “major stressor” and said reducing populations of striped bass and other nonnative predators necessary to ensure the salmon’s survival.
How can these people in good conscience ignore this and other important Delta ecosystem information? Yet, they continue their campaign of destruction when every new comprehensive report on the Delta points to other factors than just flow.
Viewpoints: Irrigators may get new free pass to pollute
Viewpoint
from Sacramento Bee – Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010
Coalition viewpoint…All the progress that has reduced runoff flows to the San Joaquin River from the Grasslands Drainage Project (NOT and never has been from Westlands WD) will be for naught if the water board does not act to allow drainage interests to complete their work. Raising the history of Kesterson and voicing unfounded claims as this author does serves no purpose in resolving drainage runoff.
Letter
from Fresno Bee – Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010
Your glowing report, “San Joaquin River restoration rolls along” Sept. 26, does not fully represent the unnecessary impacts the river restoration interim flows have had on farmers downriver.
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