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<h1><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>This time, will we end the water
war?<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=byline><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Matt Jenkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>Sunday, June 13, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=byline><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Lance Iversen / The Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=caption><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Cattle grazing
in Dozier in Solano County. Farmers and millions of city dwellers all rely on
water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><b><span style='color:black'>In the grand Western tradition of fistfights
down at the water hole, no fight has quite rivaled the one over the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In 1860, the delta - which is actually an
estuary - was a marshy, half-million-acre expanse filled primarily with tules.
It saw a constant ebb and flow between saltwater pushing in from San Francisco
Bay and fresh water flowing in from the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Mokelumne
rivers. An entire suite of fish, from iconic California species like salmon and
steelhead to less sexy understudies like the delta smelt, evolved to thrive in
that dynamic system. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Today, though, after 150 years of spirited
remodeling, the delta hardly looks like a tide-flooded estuary. It has been transformed
into a tangle of waterways and of farms and towns that stand on levee-protected
islands like walled fortresses. And today, the delta serves - above all else -
as a supersize water hole for millions of farmers and urbanites who live as far
south as San Diego.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Runoff from roughly 45 percent of California
flows from the surrounding watershed into the delta. From there, that water is
"exported" to more than 23 million people and several million acres
of farms. Two gigantic batteries of pumps - with a combined power equal to more
than four Boeing 747s at a full-throttle takeoff run - drive water toward
Southern California and farms in the San Joaquin Valley. A smaller set of pumps
delivers water to Contra Costa, Solano and Napa counties. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>That heavy-duty pumping has dramatically
altered the hydrology of the delta. The suction created by the pumps has broken
the natural fluctuations between saltwater and fresh in the delta and has
created a constant freshwater environment. And the Old and Middle rivers - tributaries
of the San Joaquin - now flow backward much of the year as the pumps draw water
toward them. The extensive effort to replumb the delta has wreaked havoc on the
ecosystems and native fish there, and it has created the kind of unvarying
conditions in which nonnative species thrive and outcompete the locals.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In 2004, scientists identified what has become
known as the Pelagic Organism Decline, a large-scale collapse of several
species of native fish, including the threatened delta smelt, longfin smelt and
threadfin shad. The situation has become progressively worse. Last year, fall
surveys for delta smelt found just 17, while populations of invasive jellyfish
were thriving.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The implications of that shift extend far
beyond simple ecological concerns. "What do you want in the drinking water
for 23 million Californians?" says Bruce Herbold, an ecologist with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Do you want jellyfish and carp and
slimy, toxic blue-green algae, or not?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>What's the right flow?<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The effort to address the problem is proceeding
on several fronts. Last fall, the Legislature proclaimed two "coequal
goals" for the delta: providing a more reliable water supply for the
state; and protecting, restoring and enhancing the delta ecosystem. As part of
that effort, the Legislature directed the five members of an obscure agency
called the state Water Resources Control Board to develop a new set of
"flow criteria" for the delta. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"We've got to get this right," says
Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael. "We're not going to have too many
more chances to save the estuary."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In March, the board met to hear three days of
testimony. "It's a huge thing," says Art Baggett, a board member.
"People have been trying to figure this one out for decades." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>A host of other factors besides pumping, such
as predatory invasive fish and discharges from sewage treatment plants, clearly
affect fish. And from the start of the hearings, much of the testimony -
particularly from agricultural and urban water users and the state Department
of Water Resources, which is separate from the Water Resources Control Board -
questioned whether pumping and altered flows are the primary threats to fish. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"I think it's very naive to think that
flow by itself will solve the problem in the delta," says Baggett.
"That's what I clearly heard." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Regulating flows and pumping has always been a
politically charged issue, and it has brought unwelcome heat to the board
before. In 1988, the board, chaired by a veteran water honcho named Don Maughan,
took up the issue of what flows the delta needed. Finding that "biological
resources have declined and are not experiencing the same degree of protection
as other beneficial uses" - such as water exports for farms and cities -
the board took a dramatic stand. It proposed actually capping exports at 1985
levels and allowing an additional 1.56 million acre-feet of water to flow
through the delta each year. That would, in effect, "straighten out"
and reorient the flows in the delta to something more closely approximating
their course before the pumps were installed. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>But it's also a lot of water - enough for
roughly 12.5 million people for a year - and the political blowback from
agricultural and urban water agencies, along with Gov. George Deukmejian's office,
came quickly. The proposal was deep-sixed, and the state board, whose members
are appointed by the governor, subsequently took a much softer approach on the
issue. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"The withdrawal was tremendous," says
Michael Hanemann, a UC Berkeley professor who worked as an economist for the
board at the time. "Staff were told, 'Stop being active; don't say
anything.' "<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In the years after, pumping continued to
increase. By 2005, 20 percent more water was being pumped out of the delta than
the amount proposed by the board in 1988. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>Why are fish in decline?<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Jerry Johns is the deputy director of the state
Department of Water Resources, and in March, he appeared before the board to
argue that a range of problems factor into the fish decline just as much, or
more, than pumping itself. He argued that a lack of food for fish, caused by
discharges of ammonium and nitrogen into the delta, was the real problem - a
point he made so repetitively that the board members ultimately cut him off.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Nearly three months later, Johns remains
adamant that pumping and altered flows have been unfairly fingered as the
primary cause of fish declines. "What the Legislature has (the board)
doing," he says, "is not terribly helpful, I don't think, to the
process."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Johns frequently points to the fact that, after
a federal judge's ruling in 2007, the amount of water pumped from the delta has
decreased quite dramatically, yet populations of delta smelt have remained low.
"We've turned the water knob here pretty hard," he says, "and it
doesn't seem to be helping very much."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Bill Bennett is a UC Davis fisheries biologist
who, like Herbold, serves as an adviser to the state board on flow criteria.
Together with several other respected UC Davis researchers, Bennett helped
create for the board a conceptual framework for establishing ecologically
beneficial flows. And he says the transformation of the delta over 150 years
has been so dramatic that it has caused a complete regime shift. "There's
no reason that the fish should jump back right away," says Bennett,
"particularly because of how much the system has changed over the past
decade."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>And, while the Department of Water Resources
and water users have raised a recurrent theme of uncertainty about the effects
of pumping, Bennett says several things are certain: "What we're certain
about is that delta smelt are at the lowest levels ever. And we're certain that
the flows in the estuary don't go the way flows in an estuary should go." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The members of the state board will vote to
adopt flow criteria on Aug. 3, and it is anyone's guess how strong a stand they
will take this time. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"I think the board members understand that
this is high-stakes stuff," says Assemblyman Huffman. "I would not be
surprised if, given the appointed nature of the water board, if there's not a
bit of pressure being applied from above."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>At the end of a long morning of technical
testimony in March, Bennett made one final exhortation to the board members:
"With all due respect, you guys have a lot of power over what happens
around here. And I really urge you to think about widening your charge a
bit."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Then he added: "Be brave. We really gotta
do something different." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=dtlcomment><b><span style='color:black'>Matt Jenkins of Berkeley
writes frequently on water politics and is a contributing editor to High
Country News.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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