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Coalition response...This article indicates that restoration officials believe the relocation
of a few salmon to the base of Friant Dam will provide information on fish
survivability. That is interesting considering that about $100 million has
already been spent on the restoration project with no completion of any
construction project identified in the plan.
While officials are waiting for
answers, so, too, are farmers. Friant Division farmers gave up a portion of
their water supply for the restoration on the assurance that part of the water
would be returned to them. These farmers are still waiting for answers that
will fulfill that promise. Downstream farmers are also waiting for answers
about whether the increase in flows down the river will flood adjacent
farmland. Increased flows last year caused seepage problems that flooded
productive fields, a condition that farmers warned about before the restoration
efforts ever commenced.
Consumers should be watching this
carefully. Impacts that reduce the ability to grow food, either through lost
irrigation water or damaged, flooded cropland, will ultimately affect the price
people pay for fresh fruit and vegetables at the grocery store.
Delta
Blog
By Nancy Vogel
From BDCP - Monday, Nov. 19, 2012
Coalition response...Delta farmers who have expressed concerns over potential crop losses due
to higher salinity should be pleased. Early estimates as high as $54 million in
annual crop losses were often quoted as a reason not to move forward with water
supply reliability projects that would benefit 25 million Californians and
several million acres of farmland south of the Delta. The study by UC Davis
researchers puts that number at $2.3 million per year, a better projection than
what was previously thought.
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