www.elkgrovenews.net/2018/01/delta-tunnels-hearings-for-jan-18.html 1/17/2018 09:20:00 PM By Dan Bacher | January 17, 2018 | The California Water Fix hearing team at the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento today announced that the Delta Tunnels project hearing days scheduled for January 18 through February 1, 2018 are cancelled. They cancelled the hearings to give the hearing officers…

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1728350 By Dan Bacher 2017/12/28 · 23:01 In spite of a record water year in Northern California, the abundance of Delta Smelt recorded in the state’s annual fall midwater survey (FMWT) is the lowest in the survey’s 50-year history. Only two Delta Smelt were collected at Delta index stations in October. One was from Suisun…

http://www.recordnet.com/news/20171228/delta-fish-is-going-going- By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer Posted Dec 28, 2017 at 7:09 PM Updated Dec 28, 2017 at 7:09 PM Even Northern California’s wettest winter wasn’t enough to help the poor Delta smelt avoid dropping to another record low in 2017. While the fingerlong fish might not seem of great consequence to most people,…

http://www.elkgrovenews.net/2017/11/Record-Chinook-Salmon-Steelhead-Returns-Reported-on-Mokelumne-River.html Dan Bacher 1/18/2017 01:35:00 PM For many years after Camanche Dam was built, the Mokelumne River, a major tributary of the San Joaquin River and the Delta, hosted small runs of Chinook salmon. The historic runs of steelhead after the construction of the dam averaged only 100 fish and no steelhead returned to spawn…

http://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/diana-suarez-whats-the-real-purpose-of-the-centennial-dam/ Diana Suarez October 20, 2017 According to a Sacramento Bee on Sept. 18, 2015 article, in the spring of 2015, California state fisheries officials sent a letter to the Nevada Irrigation District alleging NID was in violation of three sections of the state’s Fish and Game Code over a small dam near Lincoln called…