CA and Feds Still Plan to Drain Reservoirs & Kill Salmon

Post by **WB Staff** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:27 pm

Updated water supply allocations announced last week would still drain upstream reservoirs in order to deliver 4.5 million acre feet of water to the contractors of the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and State Water Project (SWP), devastating fish and wildlife. This week, the fisheries biologists at the National Marine Fisheries Service projected that these planned operations are likely to result in lethal water temperatures that will kill 89% of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon below Shasta Dam this year. This mortality estimate is even worse than what was observed in 2014 and 2015, when salmon populations were devastated by warm water in their spawning grounds. But it doesn’t have to be this way if the State and Feds act now to increase reservoir storage and take other actions to reduce water temperatures that kill salmon and steelhead.

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eastbayanglers · Post by **eastbayanglers** » Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:32 pm

Take a stand now! Or watch it vanish forever, what will be left state is in peril.

gabuelhaj · Post by **gabuelhaj** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:05 am

It's not all doom and gloom, just add a State water project tunnel to get the extra water needed to maintain their environment and habitat!

Good luck!

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:54 am

gabuelhaj wrote:It's not all doom and gloom, just add a State water project tunnel to get the extra water needed to maintain their environment and habitat!

Good luck!

Extra water from where? The Sierra snowpack is at 60% and melting fast.

gabuelhaj · Post by **gabuelhaj** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:20 pm

mark poulson wrote:
gabuelhaj wrote:It's not all doom and gloom, just add a State water project tunnel to get the extra water needed to maintain their environment and habitat!

Good luck!
Extra water from where? The Sierra snowpack is at 60% and melting fast.

As to their way of promising water:

"the state’s precipitation is increasingly coming in the form of big storms in-between extended dry periods."

Looks like the plan is doing a rain dance every couple of years to make the magic happen.....

Good luck!

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:26 pm

gabuelhaj wrote:
mark poulson wrote:
gabuelhaj wrote:It's not all doom and gloom, just add a State water project tunnel to get the extra water needed to maintain their environment and habitat!

Good luck!
Extra water from where? The Sierra snowpack is at 60% and melting fast.
As to their way of promising water:

"the state’s precipitation is increasingly coming in the form of big storms in-between extended dry periods."

Looks like the plan is doing a rain dance every couple of years to make the magic happen.....

Good luck!

Even if we have an El Nino, I'm guessing there's not enough storage to save more than a year's worth, two at the most. Our droughts are lasting longer than that.