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Monday’s top of the scroll: San Joaquin soon will begin flowing year-round; Filling, restoration of river due to begin in October

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 15, 2009 at 8:01 am

From the Fresno Bee:

The San Joaquin River will finally flow year-round as a long-awaited restoration begins in October. And officials finally have figured out what to do with a 20-mile stretch of the river that has been choked with brush and unused for decades.

A new environmental document answers years of questions about the bottleneck, northeast of Los Banos. It will simply be bypassed for now using a flood-control channel, but the stretch later may be restored as a functioning part of the river at a multimillion-dollar cost yet to be determined.

That challenge is on hold for further study. But after decades of rancorous debate and legal action, the biggest river restoration in the West will wait no more.

An agreement among government officials, environmentalists and farmers compels officials to fill the river with water starting Oct. 1. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation this month set forth an environmental document with plans for the first flows.

Read more from the Fresno Bee by clicking here. You can read environmental documents and find out much more about the San Joaquin River Restoration project by clicking here.

Picture credit: Photo of the headwaters of the San Joaquin River by flickr photographer jcookfisher.

June 15, 2009 · Filed Under San Joaquin River Restoration

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