[env-trinity] Fresno Bee 6/24/10

[Byron Leydecker]

Lawsuit challenges California groundwater pumping 

Fresno Bee-6/24/10

 

Commercial fisherman have filed a lawsuit accusing California officials of
not leaving enough water in a Northern California river for coho salmon.

 

The lawsuit filed Thursday says the State Water Resources Control Board and
Siskiyou County allowed groundwater well permits that have depleted the
Scott River.

 

The plaintiffs say the endangered coho salmon are now on the verge of
extinction in the river.

 

A spokesman at the State Resources Water Control Board, William L. Rukeyser,
says the lawsuit appears to raise many theories about pumping that are not
established in California law.

 

He says the state does have the authority to regulate groundwater as the
fishermen claim

 

Byron Leydecker, JcT

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 land/fax

415 519 4810 mobile

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