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Delta plan must ensure supply, says editorial

Posted by: Maven on October 23, 2011 at 7:50 am

From the Inland Daily Bulletin, this editorial:

“The Delta Stewardship Council, charged with developing a plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that advances the “co-equal” goals of statewide water supply reliability and restoration of a sustainable Delta ecosystem, is to release its final plan by January.

The Delta, of course, is crucial to the delivery of water to Southern California and to Central Valley farms, but the flow has been reduced by federal rulings due to falloffs in populations of smelt and salmon. The degraded environment of the Delta, and the earthen levees there that hold back saltwater but are structurally suspect, are the biggest factors in the unreliability of the statewide water supply.

So the stewardship council’s product is vital to the state’s future. Unfortunately, the council appears to have drifted toward the restoration side of the two goals at the expense of the supply reliability side. … “

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October 23, 2011 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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