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  • Cooling upper Feather River is centerpiece of plan for thermal curtain

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article9717770.html BY JANE BRAXTON LITTLEBEE CORRESPONDENT 02/10/2015 8:40 PM 02/10/2015 8:40 PM CHESTER Water temperatures in the upper Feather River are driving a controversial project its critics say may not save the native fishery that is its objective. In an environmental study nine years in the making, the State Water Resources Control Board has proposed…

  • Will the State Water Board Tear Up Paper Water?

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362628/-Will-the-State-Water-Board-Tear-Up-Paper-Water# By Dan Bacher THU FEB 05, 2015 AT 05:59 PM PST Restore the Delta (RTD) today responded to the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB) draft order issued Wednesday night demanding water diversion data from every riparian and pre-1914 water right holder in the Delta’s Central Valley watershed, starting March 1st “until, well, whenever.”…

  • Biologists: Raising California dam would harm salmon

    http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_27409713/larger-salmon-releases-planned-after-california-fish-die?source=infinite The Associated Press POSTED: 01/28/2015 06:53:19 AM PST REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A proposal to raise Shasta Dam and boost California’s ability to store water for dry years has drawn criticism from federal biologists who say it would harm endangered salmon. Biologists for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a draft report…

  • Plan to raise Shasta Dam takes hit after federal biologists say they can’t support it

    http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27406666/plan-raise-shasta-dam-takes-hit-after-federal BY Paul Rogers POSTED: 01/27/2015 06:26:45 PM PST0 COMMENTS Less than three months after California voters approved a water bond that contains $2.7 billion for new water storage, one of the leading projects under consideration has suffered a potentially fatal setback. Biologists at the main federal agency that oversees the Endangered Species Act have…

  • Environmentalists cry foul over fish decision

    http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=27623 January 26, 2015 1:04pm Say Feds’ action could doom endangered Delta smelt “This decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service … is simply reprehensible” A decision made quietly by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this month to go along with a request by the Bureau of Reclamation could shove the endangered…