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Tuesday’s top of the scroll: Groups challenge Central Valley water contracts, Claim flawed water management plans shortchange wildlife, Delta

Posted by: Maven on December 1, 2009 at 7:56 am

Shasta damFrom the Central Valley Business Journal:

“Conservation groups have appealed a decision to keep long-term water delivery contracts in California’s Central Valley that they say would result in years of damage to devastated salmon and other native fisheries, and fail to protect and restore California’s largest estuary, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay.

The appeal was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by conservation groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the San Francisco Baykeeper, represented in court by Earthjustice and NRDC.

The groups charge that the contracts, based on a 2005 Biological Opinion on the delta smelt that has been thrown out by a federal court, violate the Endangered Species Act and must be renegotiated to reflect current science.

“These water contracts must be revised to reflect a reasonable level of water diversions, require sensible conservation measures, and protect the collapsing Delta if we are going to fix California’s broken water system and restore healthy fish populations,” says Kate Poole, lead attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. … “

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December 1, 2009 · Filed Under Central Valley Project

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