Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Lawsuit filed over Calif. Delta water plan:
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday in an ongoing controversy over shipping larger volumes of water from Northern California to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.
A coalition of conservation groups said in a statement the suit challenges the conclusions of federal wildlife officials that increasing water exports from the San Francisco Bay Delta would not harm the protected delta smelt.
The suit alleges the Fish and Wildlife Service ignored evidence that pumping millions of gallons of water into the valley through massive water project pumps would threaten the small fish's already problematic survival as a species.
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A lawsuit was filed Tuesday in an ongoing controversy over shipping larger volumes of water from Northern California to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.
A coalition of conservation groups said in a statement the suit challenges the conclusions of federal wildlife officials that increasing water exports from the San Francisco Bay Delta would not harm the protected delta smelt.
The suit alleges the Fish and Wildlife Service ignored evidence that pumping millions of gallons of water into the valley through massive water project pumps would threaten the small fish's already problematic survival as a species.
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