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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Change certain for the delta, report says<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>San Francisco Chronicle – 10/23/08<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>By Kelly Zito<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><!-- end types/article/articletools.tmpl -->(10-22)
19:43 PDT </span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>--
With or without human intervention, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will
change radically in the future, the result of climate change, invasive species
and earthquakes, according to a new scientific report.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
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implications for everything from drinking water supplies in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> to urban planning, the study's
authors hope their work will help policymakers to revive an ecosystem widely
recognized as on life support.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"The delta is in crisis," said Joseph
Grindstaff, director of the CalFed Bay-Delta program, sponsor of the report and
the state agency that oversees the delta. "Now and in the next year or
two, we'll make really important decisions - this report is a foundation."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Grindstaff and others spoke during a gathering in <st1:City
w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City> on Tuesday for the release of "State of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Bay-Delta Science</st1:State></st1:place>,
2008," a 174-page report detailing the history of the delta and its myriad
problems today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The CalFed report, unveiled during a three-day
conference on the delta, pulls together information from several other recent,
influential studies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>A report earlier this year by the Public Policy
Institute of California, for instance, recommended the building of a so-called
peripheral canal, a massive pipeline that would route water from the <st1:place
w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place> to pumps in the southern delta. Last
week, the governor-appointed Delta Blue Ribbon Task Force concluded some kind
of conveyance system is necessary, along with new dams, reservoirs,
desalination technology and a new governing body for the delta that would
replace CalFed, an agency often criticized as ineffectual.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The CalFed report did highlight a handful of key
points, including recent data showing dwindling groundwater supplies and land
levels in the Central Delta declining to 30 to 40 feet below sea level by 2200.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Of immediate concern is the fate of crashing fish
populations within the 1,300-square mile estuary. The delta smelt, a tiny fish
that smells like cucumber, remains the most imperiled due to increasing toxicity,
warmer water and to large-scale killings by giant pumps that send water around
the state.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>In response, a federal judge last year slashed water
exports from the delta, adding urgency to plans to fix the hub of a system that
supplies water to 23 million urban and rural Californians. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>In their report, CalFed scientists said some
"last ditch" efforts may be the answer to preserving species like the
delta smelt. Those include freezing the fish's genetic material, genetically
engineering the fish's ability to withstand higher water temperatures, or
creating hatcheries, or "zoos" for the fish.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"When you look at how the delta will change, it
will probably become uninhabitable for some species ... the delta smelt being
one of the prime examples," said Michael Healey, former lead scientist for
CalFed and editor of the report.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>To safeguard the dozens of endangered delta plants,
Healey suggested depositing their genetic material into seed banks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Al Donner acknowledged
that smelt populations "are going low, and lower and lower." But he
said his agency is focused first and foremost on protecting the species and
minimizing any harmful impacts. Donner had not seen the study's discussion of
saving genetic material.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>One of the most significant conclusions of the report
had less to do with solutions to a specific problem and more to do with a more
comprehensive approach to the delta. Decisions on the delta come not just from
global warming and fish spawning data, authors said, but also from diverse
groups - urban and rural communities, environmentalists, industry and
government.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Work on the delta has been characterized by
"constant tension," according to report author Richard Norgaard.
"The delta depends on all of us working together."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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