Delta Pumps Shut Down

What a great start. Now if some slick salesman could just sell SoCal soime desalination plants while they are out of water.
 
Now, if someone would pour cement into the motors.
 
This is a very small, but hopeful, beginning! It is about time the DWR did what was right for the delta and its inhabitants, the fish!
 
Three pumps are shut down, one remains running to keep metropolitan water supplies intact. It's not a complete shut down.

The temporary shutdown is a step in the right direction, but DWR insists that the Delta Smelt kill-off is owing to a toxic bloom and not to their pumping. Although the Feds and an Alameda County judge certainly played a key role in convincing DWR to reduce pumping for this period, DWR wants you know that they are doing this as a favor to the smelt and the Delta environment. In their opinion, it's not as if DWR is correcting something bad that they have done.

As KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento pointed out numerous times during their newscast this evening: zillions and zillions of Californians depend on Delta water for domestic use. What KCRA never mentioned was that 90% of all water diverted from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems (the California Delta system) goes to agriculture. Only 10% of the water is diverted for those zillions and zillions and their lawns and kitchen faucets.
 
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Originally posted by yzer

As KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento pointed out numerous times during their newscast this evening: zillions and zillions of Californians depend on Delta water for domestic use. What KCRA never mentioned was that 90% of all water diverted from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems (the California Delta system) goes to agriculture. Only 10% of the water is diverted for those zillions and zillions and their lawns and kitchen faucets.

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That's what always ticks me off...

They make it out like the agri-bizz doesn't even exist. Seeing they are the largest users, a small percentage cut back THEM would do so much more...
 
Sooner or later, the folks with the votes in SoCal will figure out that it will be cheaper for them to buy agricultural water rights (and retire the land from farming) than to continue to "build" (i.e., "steal") water resources from other sources.

BTG
 
Well, the pumps have been turned on a "little bit"----about 10%. A judge will be reviewing the situation and make a ruling in August. When water levels will be extremely low in this drought year.

One of my shed neighbors was trying to identify the source of a leak in a boat this weekend. He discovered that there were tiny shrimp [krill?] in the water......is that because the water at Bethel Island was saltier then normal? Due to the pumps? I haven't a clue. Maybe someone reading this forum topic can shed some light????
 
Today KCRA reported the fish have moved out to the bay and the pumps are back to "normal operation".
 
How the heck can releasing pollutants [fertilizers and other chemicals] into the Delta be "in the public interest"???? Are we being screwed or what? I hope this lawsuit sheds some light on this.

Have you heard about all the pollutants the Mothball Fleet is putting into the Suisun/Honker Bays????
 
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