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<h1><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Study: Cut in delta water use
needed for fish<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=byline><span class=fn><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><a
href="mailto:kzito@sfchronicle.com">Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer</a></span></span><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=org><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black;
display:none'>San Francisco Chronicle</span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;
color:black'> <span class=updated><span style='display:none'>August 4, 2010
04:00 AM</span></span> <a
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August 4, 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'>Randy Pench / Sacbee.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=caption><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Coots
fly across the surface of the flooded Yolo Bypass, part of the Pacific Flyway
route for migratory birds, in February.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='color:#015660;text-decoration:none'>Calif. billionaire's tax refund
stolen by ID thief</span></a> 08.04.10<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p><b><span style='color:black'>The amount of water pumped out of the <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Sacramento_–_San_Joaquin_River_Delta"
target="_top">Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta</a> would have to be cut in
half if vulnerable fish populations are going to be preserved for future
generations, a state report declared Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The 190-page study by the State Water Resources
Control Board is nonbinding, but it could shape how communities from the <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" target="_top">Bay
Area</a> to San Diego divvy up California's most precious resource.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The document, issued by the five-member board
after nine months of scientific study, determined that 75 percent of runoff
from snowpack and rainfall would need to funnel through the delta to <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/San_Francisco" target="_top">San
Francisco</a> Bay and the ocean in order to sustain the estuary's most
important wildlife and habitats, known in legal parlance as "public
trust" resources.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Right now, about 50 percent of the state's
runoff flows through the delta all the way to the ocean. The other 50 percent
goes to cities and farms. Raising the flow into the ocean from 50 percent to 75
percent would require taking away roughly half of what cities and farms now
get, according to the report. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"The board has finally put to rest the
argument about whether the delta needs more water," said Cynthia Koehler,
water legislative director with the <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Environmental_Defense_Fund" target="_top">Environmental
Defense Fund</a>. "You can't divert 50 percent of the flows and think the
fish and ecosystem are going to be just fine."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The other view<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Many of the largest water districts in
California lambasted the report as one-sided and contended that higher delta
flows and less pumping would devastate the economy and hurt farmers grappling
with water cutbacks first stipulated by a federal judge in 2007 and fought over
ever since. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"The information certainly is interesting
and informative ... but it's immaterial," said Tom Birmingham, general
manager of Westlands Water District, a sprawling agricultural zone in the
Fresno area. "Protecting the public trust resources are not the only goals
of the planning processes."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The delta, at the confluence of the state's two
largest rivers - the Sacramento and San Joaquin - is the hub of California's
vast water system. As such, it has been the source of increasing tension
between fishermen, farmers, city leaders and federal and state politicians
trying to protect their water rights. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The state study, mandated last year by the
Legislature as part of a sweeping water reform package, does not carry any
regulatory weight, but it offers a basis for changing how much water is
delivered to 23 million Californians downstream of the delta, not to mention
users who remove water from the system before it reaches the estuary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Along with pollution, <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Climate_change" target="_top">climate
change</a>, aging infrastructure and invasive species, excessive water exports
over the past several decades have pushed the delta and certain fish species
into a death spiral.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>More studies to come<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The research purposely weighed only the needs
of a healthy habitat for crashing species like the longfin smelt and not the
interests of cities and farms. Later studies, part of a broad-based effort to
craft a management plan for the delta, will seek to balance a stable <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Water_supply" target="_top">water supply</a>
with rehabilitation of the ecosystem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Environmentalists, fishing groups and delta
residents firmly support allowing more water to flush through the delta,
arguing that higher flows mean cooler, deeper, less salty and less polluted
water for fish spawning and migration. It would also help steer fish away from
the giant pumps that entrap and kill vulnerable juveniles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Koehler's group and others say conservation,
desalination and water recycling could drastically reduce dependence on the
delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Officials at Zone 7 Water Agency, which serves
nearly 200,000 residents in eastern <a
href="http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Alameda_County,_California" target="_top">Alameda
County</a>, say they are willing to do their part in reducing dependence on the
delta and are exploring a regional desalination project. But with 80 percent of
its supply from the delta, the district is in a difficult position. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"We'll always have to rely on the delta
for the majority of our water," said spokeswoman Boni Brewer.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Less clear is how delta flow criteria could
also affect so-called upstream users, such as the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission or East Bay Municipal Utility District, which tap into
rivers before they pour into the delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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