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<p>Here's the complaint that SLDMDWA filed.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/12/2016 10:08 AM, Tom Stokely
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Delta Pumping Restrictions</h1>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387932">SACRAMENTO BEE:
Another legal dispute has erupted over the regulation of
water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a group of
water agencies has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau
of Reclamation.</div>
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BY</small>Ryan Sabalow</td>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387940"> </span>Jul.
12, 2016</td>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387945">A lawsuit
filed Friday challenges restrictions to the federal
government’s pumping plant on the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta near Tracy, California.<cite style="box-sizing:
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4px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387946">U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation</cite></figcaption></figure>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387947"><span
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font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.75px; color: rgb(34,
34, 34);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387948">IN A
FAILED</span> effort to protect endangered fish, the
federal government decided without proper study to default
to restricting the giant pumps at the bottom of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
antialiased; margin: 1em auto 1em 59.25px;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387949">So argues a
lawsuit filed Friday at the U.S. District Court in
Sacramento by a powerful consortium of water agencies.
They’re hoping for a larger share of Delta water. It’s the
latest salvo in a political and legal dispute over how to
manage the competing demands on the fragile estuary.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387950">Friday’s suit,
filed by the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority,
alleges that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation failed to seek
alternatives other than cutting water supplies to people
when it adopted its operations plans for the massive Central
Valley Project in 2008 and 2009.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387951">Jason Peltier,
the authority’s executive director, said in an interview
Friday that in spite of the pumping restrictions, fish
populations continue on a precipitous decline.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387952">Peltier said
that before that happened, Reclamation failed to ask a
critical question: “Are there actually going to be benefits
to the dramatic cuts in water supply?”</div>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387953">Reclamation
spokesman Shane Hunt said his agency doesn’t comment on
pending litigation.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387954">The Central
Valley Project includes Shasta and Folsom lakes and a
massive federal pumping station near Tracy. From there,
Delta water is channeled along canals to 2.1 million acres
(850,000 hectares) of farmland in the western San Joaquin
Valley, and to urban water districts in San Benito and Santa
Clara counties.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing:
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387955">San Joaquin
Valley farmers say they’ve had to let tens of thousands of
acres of farmland go fallow in recent years due to the
pumping restrictions. But environmental groups counter that
recent economic analyses show the state’s farming economy
continues to do well – <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article66693797.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit;
text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s, box-shadow
0.2s, border-color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s,
box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; color: rgb(34, 34,
34); box-shadow: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.2) 0px 1px 0px;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387956">even adding
30,000 new jobs last year</a> – in spite of the ongoing
drought.</div>
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antialiased; margin: 1em auto 1em 59.25px;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387957">Environmentalists
have long argued that excessive human demand for Delta water
is the primary reason why native Delta fish are dying. Two
species in particular, delta smelt and winter-run Chinook
salmon, are hovering on the edge of extinction.</div>
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antialiased; margin: 1em auto 1em 59.25px;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387958"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/delta/article73459082.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit;
text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s, box-shadow
0.2s, border-color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s,
box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; color: rgb(34, 34,
34); box-shadow: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.2) 0px 1px 0px;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387959">In April, a
trio of environmental groups sued in federal court
alleging</a> that regulators repeatedly relaxed water
quality standards – that would have protected the fish – to
keep Central Valley water flowing to farms and cities.</div>
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antialiased; margin: 1em auto 1em 59.25px;" dir="ltr"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387960"><i
style="box-sizing: inherit;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387962">This </i><i
style="box-sizing: inherit;"
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387963"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/delta/article88512547.html"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:
inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s,
box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; -webkit-transition:
color 0.2s, box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); box-shadow: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.2) 0px
1px 0px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387964">story</a> first
appeared in the Sacramento Bee.</i> <em style="box-sizing:
inherit;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387965">For
more coverage of the California drought and water issues,
please visit the <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="Link:
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/"
href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:
inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s,
box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; -webkit-transition:
color 0.2s, box-shadow 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); box-shadow: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.2) 0px
1px 0px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468007976796_387966">Sacramento
Bee</a>.</em></div>
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