Hetch Hetchy water is routed around the delta thus avoiding the water restrictions. The San Fran liberals get their water from there. Target the Hetch Hetchy reservoir for restrictions. Find a species, declare it endangered and let a fed judge cut the San Fran water by half. See how the liberals like their own medicine.
I remember the enviros didn’t even want to build hetch hetchy....
without that reservoir, San Fran would be in dire straits...
In 1975 I caught a Golden Trout in a creek above HH and part of the HH watershed.
I'm sure there's still a few of them up there as this place was 13 miles from the nearest road...no vehicles of any kind allowed.
But thats nothing compared to slabs we caught in the lake itself...anywhere there was an inflowing creek.
Brown Trout in the 3-5lb range.
They were not feeding but those darn Rooster Tails seemed to piss them off.
We kept one of the small ones every day for dinner. Everything else went back into the water.
Cancel the SF lease on Hetch Hetchy, and let it “restore itself to its natural state...”
Hetch Hetchy water goes nowhere near the delta. Not even close.
The main point you are making however, is spot on.
Colorado River water, I am positive, could be found to adversely affect desert Bugs and Bunny critters, fish insects, reptiles etc.
No history of the EPA is complete without reviewing the underlying reasons for the law, which emphasized human welfare and intended to make the findings mandatory, NOT the results. Any or all of them could be overridden by the primacy of human welfare.
Then the Bugs and Buggy and pro-sodomy and the indolent dope-addled crowds entered the picture...
I was there, then, read almost ALL of the proposed Federal and State environmental laws, the arguments during the public hearings (elected criminals actually read and debated proposed laws back then!) and my memory is not that bad...