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<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>San Joaquin Valley water
allocation boosted again<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sacramento Bee-6/15/10<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>By Michael Doyle<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Interior Department officials on Monday again boosted their
planned irrigation water deliveries to the San Joaquin Valley, giving farmers
45 percent of their standard allocation.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>The new allocation is up from a 40 percent delivery announced in
May.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>"This latest increase in allocation is a result of favorable
weather conditions this spring and better-than- expected pumping conditions in
the south Delta," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar explained Monday
afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Other federal water allocations in California will stay the same.
Farmers north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta still will get 100 percent of
their allocation, while municipal and industrial water users south of the Delta
still will get 75 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Salazar has been under political pressure all year to boost
irrigation water deliveries, with California lawmakers from both parties
insisting environmental restrictions have been too strict.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Last year, farmers south of the Delta and on the San Joaquin
Valley's west side received only 10 percent of their allocation from the
federal Central Valley Project. The cutbacks stemmed from a combination of
three years of drought and environmental protections for species including the
Delta smelt and winter-run salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>"Obviously, we're pleased," Westlands Water District
spokeswoman Sarah Woolf said. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, said the new announcement means
"more water and more jobs for our Valley."<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>"We took on Valley outsiders who tried to cut off our
water," he said. "We also took on the Washington bureaucracy until
they listened."<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>The water restrictions were partly rooted in decisions by
Fresno-based U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger, who has challenged the adequacy
of water protections for endangered species.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Last month, though, Wanger also struck down pumping restrictions
on the grounds that they were not based on sound science.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker, JcT</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends
of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>PO Box 2327</span></i><span
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94942-2327</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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