Posted on 01/09/2025 12:22:29 AM PST by grundle
Environmental rules designed to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have ignited anger among a group of bipartisan lawmakers, who say too much of California’s stormwater is being washed out to sea instead of being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts.
In a series of strongly worded letters, nearly a dozen legislators — many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley —have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta.
“When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Since the beginning of January, a series of atmospheric rivers has disgorged trillions of gallons of much-needed moisture across drought-stricken California, but only a small fraction of that water has so far made it into storage. In the delta — the heart of the state’s vast water system — nearly 95% of incoming water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The calls by lawmakers have reignited a long-simmering debate over where — and to whom — the state’s precious water supplies should go.
“With so much excess water in the system, there is no reason that exports south of the Delta cannot be increased,” read another letter that State Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) and Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains (D-Bakersfield) addressed to Newsom.
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These people are doing more harm fighting “Global Warming”, than the actual rise in temperature would.
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“Democrats can only make problems they can’t fix anything.”
They don’t run for office to fix things, at least using the definition that we all use for the term ‘fix’.
Democrats just want lifetime political jobs like Kamala.
I count 186 dams removed in California.
200 LAFD firefighters terminated:
How many Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were terminated from their jobs because they refused to take the covid vaccine?
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As of late 2022, around 200 Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) personnel were either terminated or placed on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“... the definition that we all use for the term ‘fix’.”
Except for the “to castrate” sense - they seem to be real good at that.
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