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Governor’s new salmon strategy ignores existing biological goals

Picture of a Chinook salmon leaping
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Governor Newsom's new salmon strategy breathlessly commits to the following: By 2025, begin to use biological indicators, referred to as biological goals, to inform decision making during implementation of the updated Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan. (SWRCB). But biological goals for salmon have been part of the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan since the 1995 … Continue reading Governor’s new salmon strategy ignores existing biological goals

State Water Board formally objects to Reclamation’s 2020 Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan

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On Monday, June 1, 2020, the State Water Resources Control Board sent a letter to Ernest Conant, Mid-Pacific Director of the Bureau of Reclamation, objecting to Reclamation’s 2020 Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan. Under Water Right Order 90-5, Reclamation is required to operate Shasta and Keswick Dams to provide adequate cold water in the Sacramento … Continue reading State Water Board formally objects to Reclamation’s 2020 Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan