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DWR: Pump flow rules fishy; State asks feds to reconsider Delta smelt protections

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 15, 2009 at 6:47 am

From the Capital Press:

State water officials have asked the federal government to reconsider its rules for protecting the threatened Delta smelt.

Researchers have found a population of the tiny fish at Liberty Island, a flooded tract in the northern section of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. That shows that the pumps in the southern Delta, which extract water for conveyance to San Joaquin Valley farmers and southern cities, may not be harming the tiny fish’s populations as much as previously thought, the department says.

“Flow restrictions imposed under the (biological opinion) should be re-evaluated in light of this new and unaffected Delta smelt population, which demonstrates a wider … distribution than previously considered,” the state Department of Water Resources states in a letter sent on May 7 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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May 15, 2009 · Filed Under Delta smelt, Judge Wanger delta smelt ruling

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