Posted on 02/05/2025 6:32:37 AM PST by cuz1961
...In November of last year, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett ordered San Luis Obispo County to implement a new water release plan for the Lopez Lake Dam. Now, the county is appealing that decision, citing a "catastrophic impact on South County water supply."
Per the order, the county has to release 7.9 CFS or cubic feet per second over the entire year and have two "pulse flows,"..
(Excerpt) Read more at ksby.com ...
Christopher Sproul, Senior Counsel for Environmental Advocates, disagrees.
"Lopez reservoir's full now, and you know, the stream, the Arroyo Grande Creek upstream of the dam continues to flow at a good rate. So the amount of water that the county is under order to release is not going to cause water shortages, not this year," he said.
He adds that this new plan will help steelhead trout and salmon get to their spawning sites because the pulse flows the county is required to conduct will mimic the natural flows that tell the fish to migrate back to their spawning sites...
This is so sad. California is a coastal state that doesn’t have enough fresh water? And when fresh water does appear they release it into the ocean. A couple of desalination facilities off the coast, powered by solar with pipelines running inland would have been a much more reasonable investment than a train to nowhere.
This may be a radical idea—but perhaps fish should no longer have standing in court cases.
:-)
To my knowledge, there are no salmon native to that area. There are claims that Chinook get that far south and there may even be bones in Indian middens, but things have changed since the Little Ice Age.
I’m not sure the Founders intended for our judiciary to manage everything we do. If only our legislators would stop campaigning and do their jobs. Our distinctly American criminal class.
I visited a little nature interpretive center in Avila Beach that has some information about steelhead spawning in that part of the state. Apparently there are one or two creeks where steelhead could go in a good year.
I never said there weren’t steelhead! They are an anadromous salmonid, but not a salmon. The rigid breeding cycle of salmon makes them unsuitable for the drought years that far south. Too often, the sand bars at the mouths of creeks open too late (or not at all) for photoperiodic fish to spawn.
It may seem like that, but they just defer to the bureaucrats who actually run things. Usually, they write the consent decrees in cahoots with NGO lawyers.
Thank you.
This may be a radical idea—but perhaps fish should no longer have standing in court cases.
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yup, n.s.
im also a speciesist
Hmmmmp. I can’t quite decide which is worse, having a U.S. District Judge decide your water supply or a bunch of Democrat woke environmental wackos in charge.
THAT statement also struck me.
NEVER heard of those fish that far south.
The water level is at 91%.
https://wr.slocountywater.org/site/?site_id=16&site=ad5cdb23-3e46-41f0-98a9-b169a505c0f4
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