Restoring Franks Tract'

[WB Staff]

Franks Tract is a flooded island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Today it is a nexus point of many delta uses, ranging from duck hunting and bass fishing to fresh water supply for California cities and farms. But it’s also a hot spot for invasive plants and predatory fishes, as well as a conduit for saltwater intrusion into waterways used to convey freshwater supplies to cities and agriculture in the Delta and other parts of California.

For these reasons, Franks Tract is considered a strong candidate for partial restoration. Various partners, led by CDFW, are proposing to restore about 1,000 acres of Franks Tract to tidal marsh. A recently released report summarizes the technical studies and stakeholder input that’s been collected relative to the potential restoration of Franks Tract.

If approved for further development, the restoration proposal would enter a second phase of planning, design and environmental review with a target end date of December 2020. For more information, please visit: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Science-Ins ... anks-tract

[ash]

Then maybe they should stop spraying and pellet if it!

[mark poulson]

Then maybe they should stop spraying and pellet if it!

Exactly!

[hydro]

The best way to fix the Delta is to stop taking too much water out of it and let Mother Nature take care of things

[mark poulson]

The best way to fix the Delta is to stop taking too much water out of it and let Mother Nature take care of things

Amen!

[Jboutfishn]

The best way to fix the Delta is to stop taking too much water out of it and let Mother Nature take care of things

Seems obvious.......

[frankstractfutures]

The Franks Tract restoration planning process is entering into a new phase and is seeking additional input from people who live, work, and play on the Tract:

Please let the project team know where you fish and boat on the Tract in the new map-based survey:

https://app.maptionnaire.com/en/6547/

Feel free to share this link widely!

[mark poulson]

The Franks Tract restoration planning process is entering into a new phase and is seeking additional input from people who live, work, and play on the Tract:

Please let the project team know where you fish and boat on the Tract in the new map-based survey:

https://app.maptionnaire.com/en/6547/

Feel free to share this link widely!

Your survey doesn't ask real questions, it only points people toward choosing which alternative they would choose from choices that all support the project.
As Josh Ireland said, backfilling Franks would cause the water in Piper Slough to rip, causing a real economic hardship on businesses that sit on the levee there, like the Rusty Port Hole, and Russo's Marina, and lowering property values all along Piper Slough. It would probably have similar effects on Taylor Slough, too. All the water that flows into and through Franks now will have to go somewhere else.
All you're doing is making water delivery to the pumps at the Forebay faster.
This project is a water grab disguised as a "restoration" project.
Franks isn't the problem.
Taking water from the Delta for the San Joaquin Water Districts and almond farmers is the problem.
The salmon, stripers, black bass, and the Delta smelt all coexisted just fine until the Aqueduct System was built. You can look at the salmon numbers, and the water pumping numbers, and see how they are connected. The figures from the DFW on the decline of the salmon, and from the Aqueduct's own water flow numbers, don't lie.
There is a direct correlation between the pumping of the Delta water and the decline of the fisheries.
The cure for ailing salmon numbers, and the ailing San Francisco Estuary ecosystem, is to Stop Pumping Water.
It really is that simple.
Attitude plus effort equal success
CLEAN AND DRY

[sdavis24]

^^^^Agreed. That survey was full of leading questions designed to support the project.