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<p><span>SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today expanded his drought
emergency declaration to 39 additional counties, including the Klamath
River, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Tulare Lake Watershed counties
where he said “accelerated action is needed to protect public health,
safety and the environment.”</span></p>
<p>A total of 41 of California’s 58 counties are now under a drought
state of emergency, representing 30 percent of the state’s population.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, juvenile Chinook salmon are already dying of disease in
the low water conditions in the main stem of the Klamath River.</p>
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<p>You can read the Governor’s proclamation at: <span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.ca.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F05%2F5.10.2021-Drought-Proclamation.pdf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1JbgDzBaS0I3sjjUq5bakpeOZiyvtC-wlEumTX0khTgs5yjr1X2hUp3H4&h=AT2z-b5LFR3HFWvGBU50tmELDkG5YjowHQpHNh_OTEILf1RxCde8UbvQzpX-1HPjW2hF1DVyI9UVS4t-HO1iKGQ0hUY3vrCbZ9IgXtWgmRurg4lkbfz97nVZfbigHARKdp-IVtkrOw71CZXquIR1dvo&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c[0]=AT1XnNk1wyVie4I6wXIpw9nlnv3m__iKvXgpBznSv8hj1SwFnXwjLcfV6Xa5SeaXdpfQ-fPN7V3HYfO-kihsEzEV0vyBPTHI-OpvwW1kUgmdDNTQv3dqoPS5uqR8NS6eaVG1bw0d843CqH0xY4tsvL-P_83Wfd31uODfRApSd4Ueg8lnBAWpyZq6LFA4rXoI10Cs-unRZOC7UBdyxXTb9yT8cZ4f1c9W-YDV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gov.ca.gov/.../5.10.2021-Drought-Proclamation</a>… </span></p>
<p>The Governor said “climate change-induced early warm temperatures and
extremely dry soils” have further depleted the expected runoff water
from the Sierra-Cascade snowpack, resulting in “historic and
unanticipated reductions in the amount of water flowing to major
reservoirs, especially in Klamath River, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
and Tulare Lake Watershed counties.”</p>
<p>“With the reality of climate change abundantly clear in California,
we’re taking urgent action to address acute water supply shortfalls in
northern and central California while also building our water resilience
to safeguard communities in the decades ahead,” said Governor Newsom.
“We’re working with local officials and other partners to protect public
health and safety and the environment, and call on all Californians to
help meet this challenge by stepping up their efforts to save water.”</p>
<p>Salmon and Delta advocates criticized the Governor’s declaration for
catering to large corporate agribusiness interests —and pointed out
the poor water management by the state and federal governments in the
Sacramento and Trinity-Klamath Basins during recent droughts. </p>
<p>"Today Central Valley lawmakers and Governor Newsom used the drought,
which is the result of climate change, to advocate for taxpayer-funded
pork projects, such as private canals and the Sites Reservoir, for
industrial agriculture, which uses up to 80% of the state's developed
water,” said Regina Chichizola, co-coordinator of Save California
Salmon, in a statement.</p>
<p>“Poor water management during the last drought led to 90% of the
salmon dying and toxic algal blooms in cities’ water supplies. Tribal
and fishing communities are suffering," she noted.</p>
<p>"The fact is we can't dam our way out of climate change. Industrial
agriculture uses most of the state's water, while exporting their crops
and offering little benefit residents of this state. California's
antiquated water rights system leaves cities and the environment high
and dry while almonds get clean water,” emphasized Chichizola.</p>
<p>"These talks about water storage, drought relief, and voluntary
agreements are happening without consent with the California Tribal
communities and other salmon and clean water advocates,” pointed out
Morning Star Gali Pit River Tribal Member and Save California Tribal
Organizer.</p>
<p>Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, also responded to the declaration, noting that “<span>Governor Newsom’s latest declaration tears pages from the playbook Governor Brown used in 2013 and 2014.”</span></p>
<p><span>“Everyone gets something except the Delta,” she stated. “We get
salinity barriers. This will disrupt waterways and create stagnant
pools with larger harmful algal blooms throughout the summer and fall.
These algal blooms pose dangers to public health through water contact
to people and dogs, but also from the emission of airborne
contaminants.”</span></p>
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<p>“Under this plan, multiple fish species in the Delta, like Chinook
salmon and Delta smelt, may become part of the sixth great mass
extinction on Governor Newsom’s watch,” Barrigan-Parrilla concluded.</p>
<p>Tim Stroshane, Restore the Delta policy analyst, said Governor
Newsom’s latest declaration signals that “temporary urgency change”
petitions will be sought by the US Bureau of Reclamation and the
Department of Water Resources to waive water quality objectives in the
Delta.</p>
<p>“Today's proclamation also gestures in the direction of preserving
existing cold-water pools in the upstream reservoirs, particularly at
Shasta and Oroville lakes. This is likely too little too
late. Unfortunately, these reservoirs are already extremely low, and
their cold-water pools were dissipated over this past winter when
supplies were shipped to southern California and San Luis Reservoir
south of the Delta,” said Stroshane. </p>
<p>The poor water management by the Department of Water Resources and
the Bureau of Reclamation that has excerbated the current drought is
revealed in my analysis of water exports out of the Delta for the past
decade.</p>
<p>In 8 out of the past 10 years, the combined water exports from the
state and federal water projects have exceeded the 3 million acre feet
annual export figure that many believe to be the maximum amount of water
that can be exported from the Delta without destroying the ecosystem
and harming fish species.</p>
<p>In every water year except two, 2014 and 2015, the state and federal
projects exported well over 3 million acre feet of water from the Delta.</p>
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<p>The 3 million acre feet cap of water exports in all years is a key
recommendation of the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC) updated solutions
plan titled <a href="http://www.ewccalifornia.org/reports/EWC_WATER_PLAN-Revised_2018.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“A Sustainable Water Plan for California.”</a></p>
<p>In fact, 2011 was the all time record export year with 6.67 million
acre feet of water diverted from the Delta, followed closely behind by
the 6.46 million acre feet exported in 2017. 2018 saw 4.62 million acre
feet exported from the Delta, while 2019 saw 5.3 million acre feet
exported and 2020 saw 3.65 million acre feet exported.</p>
<p>If the state doesn’t conserve enough water to maintain carryover
storage so that salmon can successfully spawn and the juvenile fish can
outmigrate, then we end up in the situation where the CDFW had to truck
all of the Sacramento River hatchery salmon smolts downriver to the bay
so that fish are able to survive in a drought year. </p>
<p><em>Below is the chart with the annual exports and the 15 year average. All of the figures are in million acre feet:</em></p>
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<p>4.921947348</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2016</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>3.508986048</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.814769057</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2017</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>6.463958728</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.87413627</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2018</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.6</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.758666667</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2019</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>5.344226</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.705860648</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2020</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>3.655797327</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4.518263237</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p>The situation with out migrating juvenile salmon is very dire in the
Klamath Basin now. An email from CDFW environmental scientist Dan Troxel
on May 7 says the mainstem Klamath is at its highest level "RED,"
indicating an imminent or active fish kill. </p>
<p>"Well it seems the unfortunate potential outcomes are already
manifesting themselves on the mainstem Klamath. Our partners at USFWS
and Yurok Tribal Fisheries are seeing some very distressing signs in the
0+ out-migrating Chinook salmon; a substantial portion of fish showing
clinical signs of disease (C. shasta) and even dead fish being caught in
outmigrant traps,” he wrote.</p>
<p>“Due to this, the mainstem Klamath is at its highest Readiness Level
“RED”, indicating an imminent or active fish kill. Unfortunately these
few inch long salmon mortalities don’t draw the same attention as adult
fish, but it is just as important to actively monitor the situation and
implement KFHAT’s Fish Kill Response plan if deemed necessary,” he
stated. </p>
<p>Please find the attached report and other updates on the KFHAT webpage: <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbmp.net%2Fcollaboration%2Fkfhat%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2PTSL52plazUJJapMaS4aVWde3JcCVlBW_Ho7mV0PckseFc5-hdHo0LKU&h=AT3AghmH3qW5TF3oYu8yi5z2BKT4vSFUYsbjwek2AFag1QKT3HmmjR_wIwQV1kby94UxWpbhRTtv7itGS2lCxJ1GGD4pQ80FRakaWV7gmQx8EsnxWCGcf5QDUFG4zm4eNW4hqsje4P4QftvPPW_jp9Q&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3FV-NY_TDHqjzDK1iMHFR9wwIYKNhpfjC5dPyNAptCPLHajprRPRfnqGlnHksiCAZLmhmDqyB6W1G-Mttw37XWCpmVwhS1Rn_p1Ph3LJ88hllTzIWrMbbUzcFT6GHF_5m95XgmVRenmwP9GF47DDJutDw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kbmp.net/collaboration/kfhat</a></p>
<p><strong>According to the KFHAT report, “The Mid and Lower Klamath
are showing signs of diseased and dead Chinook salmon noted by partners
at Yurok Tribe. Active juvenile fish kill currently happening. Will
continue to monitor situation and re-evaluate within the next few days.”</strong></p>
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