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Pump shutdown to save fish could affect local water supply { Smelt over people }
San francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/31/7 | Chronicle Staff Report

Posted on 05/31/2007 4:02:17 PM PDT by SmithL

SACRAMENTO -- The state has shut down the large pumps that send water to 25 million Californians in order to protect a tiny fish teetering on the brink of extinction.

State officials said the shutdown could affect water supplies available to users in the Bay Area, the Central Valley and Southern California. Local areas that receive water from the State Water Project include the Tri-Valley, Santa Clara County, Yuba City and Solano County. Some of those areas can obtain water from other sources, including groundwater.

The shutdown is expected to last seven to 10 days, officials said.

Numbers of Delta smelt -- once a common fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta -- have plunged in recent years, in part due to exports of water to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, scientists believe. Recent trawls for juvenile smelt have turned up few or none.

The Tracy-area water pumps, a key part of the State Water Project, redirect delta water down the aqueduct in such large quantities that rivers sometimes flow backward. The smelt get sucked into the pumps but also lose their way in the delta, getting stranded in areas where they are susceptible to predators.

The shutdown comes at a bad time for the state,

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: activistjudge; fishoverpeople; smelt; waterwars

1 posted on 05/31/2007 4:02:20 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: NormsRevenge
Follow-up to: Delta pumping violates endangered species laws, judge rules and Activists move to save Delta smelt
2 posted on 05/31/2007 4:06:17 PM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SmithL

I guess really big fish tanks are out of the question.


3 posted on 05/31/2007 4:11:36 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: SmithL

He who smelt it, dealt it.


4 posted on 05/31/2007 4:13:05 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: SmithL
Gee! I hope they shut those pumps down for a year or more. I bet the environmentalist and judges will change their thinking real quick!
5 posted on 05/31/2007 4:14:03 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Yep - when they turn on the faucet, and nothing comes out.


6 posted on 05/31/2007 4:18:46 PM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: SmithL

fish or libs? Boy, that is a hard choice to make.


7 posted on 05/31/2007 4:27:48 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: SmithL

>>>>(Smelt over people)<<<<

Well actually it’s smelt over Californians so I’m good with that.


8 posted on 05/31/2007 4:28:02 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL

California people get the government they want.


9 posted on 05/31/2007 5:08:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Hey! I used to have that tagline. I was wondering where it had wandered off to.


10 posted on 05/31/2007 5:54:33 PM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Save the smelt, liberals taste awful...


11 posted on 05/31/2007 9:57:50 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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