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Sunday’s top of the scroll: Testing waters for salmon in San Joaquin River

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 7, 2010 at 7:58 am

friant dam & riverFrom the San Francisco Chronicle:

“Water has begun flowing down 64 barren miles of the San Joaquin River in what is being touted as California’s most ambitious effort to bring back long-lost native salmon.

The floodgates of the colossal Friant Dam outside Fresno were opened last week so researchers can study how the water flows down California’s second longest river. The releases, which will continue until Dec. 1, will accelerate this spring until enough water is flowing down the parched riverbed to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in less than a minute.

It is all part of a historic agreement reached after two decades of legal wrangling over efforts to bring back the salmon that were wiped out a half-century ago when the 319-foot dam was built. … “

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February 7, 2010 · Filed Under Salmon

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