[env-trinity] Significant Delta Action

[Byron Leydecker]

Department of Fish and Game

 

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    07:045    May 31, 2007

Contact:    Greg Hurner, Senior Adviser to the Director (916)653-6719

 

Ceasing Operation of State Water Project, Other Actions Requested Sacramento
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The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) today asked the  Department of Water
Resources to stop pumping at State Water Project Delta facilities to protect
threatened smelt. This request, which will  be extended to other south Delta
water diverters, was made after substantial reductions from the State Water
Project failed to prevent the salvage of Delta smelt due to high tidal
influences expected through June 3.

 

 "Recent surveys indicate that Delta smelt abundance is at an all time low,"
said DFG Director L. Ryan Broddrick. "These further extraordinary actions
are necessary to protect Delta smelt that are  currently extremely
vulnerable to diversions in the south Delta."

 

DFG will contact other water diverters in the south Delta to request  their
cooperation in reducing or eliminating water diversions during  this
critical period. Up to 1,800 large and small diversions in the  south Delta
could be impacted.

 

Broddrick also announced that DFG will suspend all non-essential scientific
collections of Delta smelt and work with scientists and other state and
federal agencies to expand the use of brood stock to provide Delta smelt for
scientific research purposes. This measure  will not affect monitoring of
the abundance or location of Delta smelt  as this data allows the fishery
agencies and independent scientists to  be informed of potential actions to
protect Delta smelt, such as those  requested today.

 

Byron Leydecker

Friends of Trinity River, Chair

California Trout, Inc., Advisor

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 

415 519 4810 cell

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org

http://www.fotr.org

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