Posts Tagged: San Joaquin River

For California water supply, $150 million spent to not solve the problem

By Marc Albert | May 06 2011 at 07:24 | Your take

California salmon run

Four years and $150 million into a major study of plans to re-engineer elements of California’s main source of water, a National Science Foundation review found the multi-billion-dollar proposal confused, poorly defined and inadequately researched.  That’s the gist of a piece by Gosia Wozniacka of The Associated Press picked up by the Riverside Press Enterprise.

Power brokers managing California’s fresh water supplies have long sought more access to the state’s two major rivers — the Sacramento and the San Joaquin. But taking too much water from the rivers creates all sorts of problems: (more…)

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Beltway Outsider, Bureau of Reclamation, Clean Water, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of the Interior, Environment, Fish & Wildlife Service, Infrastructure and Mass Transit, Lobbyists, National Science Foundation, Regulation
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First thing we do, we protect all the . . . lawyers?

By Marc Albert | Aug 23 2010 at 13:15 | Your take

Steelhead trout

A coalition of six California water districts failed to convince a federal court that there’s no real distinction between endangered anadromous steelhead trout and comparatively plentiful rainbow trout. The lawsuit, brought against the National Marine Fisheries Service, sought to strip steelhead of their distinction as a separate species (more…)

Topics: Beltway Outsider, Environment, Fish & Wildlife Service, Infrastructure and Mass Transit
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