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Action in Washington could restore water to San Joaquin River

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 11, 2008 at 7:20 am

From Stockton’s Record, this editorial:

There was good news out of Washington last week. If you’re a salmon.

The Senate Energy Committee approved a bill, similar to legislation a House panel approved last fall, that will restore water flows to the San Joaquin River. The proposal for the river, the state’s second longest, would bring water to a 60-mile dry stretch by next year. With luck, that would mean chinook salmon would return to the river three years later.

Being a salmon has grown increasingly tough in recent years, what with streams and rivers blocked by developments and dams, low water, bad water quality and who knows what else. In fact, we know so little about what has caused the salmon population to collapse that commercial fishing for the species off the California and Oregon coasts as well as sport fishing on the inland waterways has been halted this season.

Putting water back in the San Joaquin River, flowing north from Friant Dam and eventually into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, will not restore the West Coast salmon runs of the past. But it won’t hurt, either.

Read the rest of this editorial from Stockton’s Record by clicking here.

May 11, 2008 · Filed Under Salmon, San Joaquin River Restoration

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One Response to “Action in Washington could restore water to San Joaquin River”

Philip on May 12th, 2008 2:09 pm

Jury’s still out on this one. When there are pressing needs and achievable results from work that can be done on the Klamath/Trinity/Upper Sac, spending a bloody fortune on an experiment that may or may not bring back a few hundred fish looks a little silly to me.

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