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They say they’ve identified a pattern of decline in juvenile fish (young fish that have not yet reached reproductive age) that is closely tied to a decline in the amount of phytoplankton, or microalgae, in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it is a lack of food availability for these small fish,” says Britten. “When fish are young, their primary food is phytoplankton and microscopic animals. If they don’t find food in a matter of days, they can die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst news comes from the North Atlantic, where the vast majority of species, including Atlantic cod, European and American plaice, and sole are declining. In this case, Britten says historically heavy fishing may also play a role. Large fish, able to produce the biggest, most robust eggs, are harvested from the water. At the same time, documented declines of phytoplankton made it much more difficult for those fish stocks to bounce back when they did reproduce,\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/science/cods-continuing-decline-traced-to-warming-gulf-of-maine-waters.html?_r=0\"> despite aggressive fishery management efforts\u003c/a>, says Britten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the researchers looked at plankton and fish reproduction declines in individual ecosystems, the results varied. In the North Pacific — for example, the Gulf of Alaska — there were no significant declines. But in other regions of the world, like Australia and South America, it was clear that the lack of phytoplankton was the strongest driver in diminishing fish populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you averaged globally, there was a decline,” says Britten. “Decline in phytoplankton was a factor in all species. 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Asch studied data from 1951 to 2008 on 43 species of fish collected off the Southern California coast and found that many fish have changed the season when they spawn. When fish spawned too early or too late in the season, there can be less plankton available to them, shrinking their chance of survival. She calls it a “mismatch” between when the fish spawn and when seasonal plankton blooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing just how vulnerable our fisheries are to potential climate change is on the radar of NOAA Fisheries. The agency has put together a \u003ca href=\"http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/Assets/ecosystems/climate/documents/Fish_Stock_Climate_Vulnerability_Assessment.pdf\">Fish Stock Climate Vulnerability Assessment\u003c/a> report expected to be released in early 2016. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 7 January 2016, 12:20 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, UC Davis released the first estimates of methane emissions from an underground gas storage field north of Los Angeles. Owned by Southern California Gas Company, the gas has been leaking since October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis pilot and scientist Stephen Conley measured the plume and estimates nearly 80,000 tons of methane have been released, or about 1,000 tons per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To put this into perspective, the leak effectively doubles the emission rate for the entire Los Angeles Basin,” says Conley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methane has traveled and affected nearby Los Angeles suburb Porter Ranch, displacing thousands of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over the leak and its impact on the Porter Ranch community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 31 December 2015, 1:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility officials in Southern California say they have determined the underground location of a pipe leak that has spewed natural gas into the air since late October, but it could be months before they’re able to fix the rupture that has driven up the state’s methane emissions and chased thousands of families from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has called the leak an “environmental disaster,” and the Los Angeles Unified School District shuttered two area schools for the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the leak at Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon storage facility is pouring methane into the air at a rate equal to putting an additional 7 million cars on the road daily. The Environmental Defense Fund created this real-time counter showing how many metric tons of methane are estimated to have escaped from the Aliso Canyon facility since Oct. 23:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.edf.org/embed/methane-counters\" width=\"100%\" height=\"515\" style=\"width: 100%; border: none; height: 515px;\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Original Story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>World leaders left Paris over the weekend with an aggressive agreement to cut methane emissions and other so-called short-lived climate pollutants. Methane doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but it’s much more potent. That’s one reason the city of Los Angeles is suing over the methane leak from a natural gas well north of L.A., and it’s why state leaders are concerned about a long-hidden source of methane emissions: leaking natural gas pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, utilities in California have logged, but not repaired, thousands of pinprick leaks in pipelines criss-crossing the state. These leaks are considered non-hazardous because they don’t pose a health or safety risk. But they do pose an environmental risk. Tim O’Connor, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), says not many people, from utilities to state leaders, have been thinking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is this hidden environmental issue which is quite significant,” O’Connor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Certain situations—not all, I want to be very clear on this—you’d find some leaks that would go unrepaired for literally years.’\u003ccite>Eric Hofmann,\u003cbr>\nUtility Workers Union of America\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you add up the greenhouse gas emissions coming from all pipeline leaks statewide, he says, it’s as if we’re putting 700,000 more cars on the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Methane is a Potent Greenhouse Gas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Californians who care about climate change understand that carbon dioxide emissions are a key part of the problem, but methane – which can seep from landfills, oil and gas infrastructure, wastewater ponds or agricultural facilities – is an important piece of the puzzle when it comes to combating climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a stronger global warming potential,” explains Riley Duren, a climate scientist who has been tracking atmospheric methane with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “On a 20-year timeline, methane is about 80 times more efficient at trapping heat than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the biggest single source of methane emissions in the state is in a hilly territory north of Los Angeles, where a massive natural gas leak from Southern California Gas Company’s underground Aliso Canyon storage field has permeated the nearby community of Porter Ranch with a foul smell, sickening some residents and prompting hundreds to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved here, I didn’t know about the gas facility,” said Matt Pakucko, who lives near the leaking gas well and started a grassroots organization called Save Porter Ranch. Even before the leak started, he said, he’d notice the smell of gas sometimes. “Late night or early morning, it smells like natural gas, like my stove is on,” he explained. “I’d call the gas company, they would come out, and nothing in my house was leaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO8HraNes9w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the leak started Oct. 23, he said the fumes grew to an extreme level – and started to affect residents’ health. “It was hard to breathe,” he said. “It’s the kind of thing where you call the emergency number. It’s that strong all over the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks after the rupture began, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health issued \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/docs/AlisoCanyonFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fact sheet\u003c/a> noting that exposure to the methane gas wasn’t expected to cause long-term health impacts, but an additive called mercaptans is known to cause dizziness, respiratory issues, headaches and other short-term health issues. SoCalGas made several unsuccessful attempts to plug the leak, and it’s now \u003ca href=\"https://www.alisoupdates.com/main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drilling a relief well\u003c/a> to contain it—a process that could take up to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas now faces a class-action lawsuit from residents of Porter Ranch, charging the company showed a “willful disregard for public health,” and a lawsuit from the city of Los Angeles charging that the utility failed to notify residents of the health hazard in a timely manner and didn’t have a sufficient plan in place to repair the breach. The company has also drawn heat from environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”j8ZKAhTyX6vUmZUPJsNS6vYz2BUiiQ2Q”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a calculated rate per hour of about 50,000 kilograms of methane emissions, this single leak is likely responsible for over 25 percent of the state’s daily total methane emissions from all sources, including landfills and agriculture,” O’Connor wrote in a recent blog post. “Depending on when it is fixed, this one leak is also likely to single-handedly double the methane emissions associated with natural gas use in California this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Aliso Canyon leak has released a staggering amount of heat-trapping gases, leaking natural gas pipelines are a more insidious problem that has persisted for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hidden Source of Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-hazardous pipeline leaks are graded differently from ruptures that cause gas explosions – under state law, utilities must respond immediately if a detected leak is deemed hazardous. But leaks that vent outdoors, or emit only a small amount of gas, are classified as Grade 3 and have historically ranked as utilities’ lowest priority for repair. Usually the amount of gas they leak is so minuscule you can’t smell it, and if they’re venting outdoors, there’s no danger of a gas build-up that could lead to explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2015/12/WEBLeakyPipelinesBowe151214.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are really high levels that could be dangerous, flammable, [utilities] come out immediately,” explains Francesca Hopkins, who works with Duren on the NASA carbon monitoring team. “What we’re talking about is worrying about methane leaks because of their impact on climate, not finding leaks because they’re a public safety hazard. We care because it’s those smaller, long-term leaks that affect global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board estimates gas pipeline leaks will account for 12 percent of the state’s methane emissions by 2030—a problem that will translate to higher utility bills in the long run, since customers pay for that wasted fuel. Policymakers have only recently started taking action to require utilities to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring utilities to seal non-hazardous pipeline leaks that don’t pose a threat to public safety. Before this policy, it was common practice to simply allow them to vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_408396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-408396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/armato-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak.\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak. \u003ccite>(Rebecca Bowe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certain situations — not all, I want to be very clear on this — you’d find some leaks that would go unrepaired for literally years,” said Eric Hofmann, business agent with the SoCalGas utility workers’ union. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a trailer park tucked among the irrigated orchards outside Fresno that help make California's San Joaquin Valley the richest farm region in the world, 16-year-old Giselle Alvarez, one of the few English speakers in this community of farmworkers, puzzles over the notices posted on front doors: There's a danger in their drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This has been a decades-long process that has occurred. It’s going to take many decades to reverse.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Bryant Jurgens, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tests for uranium, the notices warn, show a level considered unsafe by federal and state standards. The trailer park's owners are legally required to post the warnings. But the notices are awkwardly worded and in English, a language few of the park's dozens of Spanish-speaking families can read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It says you can drink the water -- but if you drink the water over a period of time, you can get cancer,\" said Alvarez, whose working-class family has no choice but to keep drinking and cooking with the tainted tap water daily, as they have since Alvarez was just learning to walk. \"They really don't explain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uranium, the stuff of nuclear fuel for power plants and atom bombs, \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1358/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly is showing up in drinking water systems \u003c/a>in major farming regions of the U.S. West — a naturally occurring but unexpected byproduct of irrigation, of drought, and of the overpumping of natural underground water reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation in Central California — along with the U.S. Central Plains, among the areas most affected — found authorities are doing little to inform the public at large of the growing risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At particular risk are the San Joaquin Valley families who rely on private wells; as many as one out of every four of them are unknowingly drinking dangerous amounts of uranium, researchers determined this year and last. Government authorities say long-term exposure to uranium can damage kidneys and raise cancer risks, and scientists say it can have other harmful effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this swath of farmland, roughly 250 miles long and encompassing major cities, including Fresno, Bakersfield, and Modesto, the pre-treated water of up to one in 10 public systems has uranium levels that exceed federal and state safety standards, the \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1358/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Geological Survey has found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, nearly 2 million people in California's Central Valley and in the U.S. Midwest live within a half-mile of groundwater containing uranium over the safety standards, University of Nebraska researchers said in a study published in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything from state agencies to tiny rural schools are scrambling to deal with hundreds of tainted public wells — more regulated than private wells under safe-drinking-water laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes water wells at Westport Elementary School, where 450 children from rural families study outside the Central California farm hub of Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Westport's playground, schoolchildren take a break from tetherball to sip from fountains marked with Spanish and English placards: \"SAFE TO DRINK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which draws on its own wells for its drinking fountains, sinks and cafeteria, is one of about 10 water systems in the farm region that have installed uranium removal facilities in recent years. Prices range from $65,000 for the smallest system to millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rPJv8j1Ci8bZ6nTksYCUVlSr51iN6Pw7\"]Just off Westport's playground, a school maintenance chief jangles the keys to the school's treatment operation, locked in a shed the size of a garage. Inside, a system of tubes, dials and canisters resembling large scuba tanks removes up to a pound a year of uranium from the school's wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uranium gleaned from the school's well water and other Central California water systems is handled like the nuclear material it is — taken away by workers in masks, gloves and other protective garments, said Ron Dollar, a vice president at Water Remediation Technology, a Colorado-based firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is then processed into nuclear fuel for power plants, Dollar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before treatment, Westport's water tested up to four times state and federal limits. After treatment, it's safe for the children, teachers and staff to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Central California farm schools opt to buy bottled water in place of drinking fountains, which are off limits because of uranium and other contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a choice,\" said Terri Lancaster, principal of the 260 students at Waukena Elementary School in rural Tulare County. \"You do what you have to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until winning a state grant to pay for trucked-in drinking water, her school was spending $10,000 a year from its general fund on bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of Modesto, with a half-million residents, recently spent more than $500,000 to start blending water from one contaminated well to dilute the uranium to safe levels. The city has retired a half-dozen other wells with excess levels of uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials don't track spending on uranium-contaminated wells. But the state's Water Resources Control Board identified at least $16.7 million the state has spent since 2010 helping public water systems deal with high levels of uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming years, more public water systems likely will be compelled to invest in such costly fixes, said Miranda Fram, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fram and colleagues at USGS have taken the lead over the past decade in identifying the problem in farm centers, including Central California, which produces a quarter of the country's agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geologists and water experts are still piecing together the ways in which levels of uranium exceeding federal and state health standards are seeping into more public water systems and household wells in major farm areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fram and her colleagues believe the amount of uranium increased in Central Valley drinking water supplies over the last 150 years with the spread of farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, as in the Rockies, mountain snowmelt washes uranium-laden sediment to the flatlands, where groundwater is used to irrigate crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irrigation allows year-round farming, and the irrigated plants naturally create a weak acid that is leeching more and more uranium from sediment, said Fram and Bryant Jurgens, another USGS researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ongoing Drought is a Factor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groundwater pumping pulls the contaminated water down into the earth, where it is tapped by wells that supply drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is now experiencing its driest four-year span on record, and farmers and other users are pumping groundwater at the highest rates ever, helping to pull yet more uranium into areas of aquifers tapped by water wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been a decades-long process that has occurred,\" Jurgens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if authorities were to intervene to somehow curb uranium contamination — and no such effort is under way — \"we expect that it's going to take many decades to reverse this,\" Jurgens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should not have any doubts as to whether drinking water with uranium in it is a problem or not. It is.' \u003ccite>Doug Brugge, professor of public health, Tufts University School of Medicine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The USGS calculates that the average level of uranium in public-supply wells of the eastern San Joaquin Valley increased 17 percent from 1990 to the mid-2000s. The number of public-supply wells with unsafe levels of uranium, meantime, climbed from 7 percent to 10 percent over the same period there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problem remains so unpublicized that even Fresno County farmer Mark Sorensen — who grows grapes and blueberries in one of the most impacted parts of the country, and deals with water issues routinely as a leader of the local farm bureau — admits to not knowing about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be honest, I have never spoken to anybody about uranium,\" said Sorensen, a fifth-generation farmer. \"I've never even heard of it in drinking water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have long known that uranium can damage kidneys and increase the risks of cancer when consumed over a year or more, which is why authorities have set maximum levels for drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drinking water tainted by uranium is the chief concern — but uranium also sticks to potatoes, radishes and other root vegetables if they're not properly washed. (While studies have confirmed livestock and people can ingest high levels of uranium by eating contaminated vegetation, scientists have yet to fully research the dangers involved.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though people think mainly about uranium's radioactivity, the danger in water mainly comes from the toxic chemical effects of the metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Old public health models for uranium date back to the U.S. uranium boom of the 1940s and 1950s, when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission set off a nuclear-age mining boom in the Central Valley and other points West as the country sought to build uranium stockpiles. Countless miners succumbed to cancer from breathing radioactive gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those models now need revising to deal with the larger population exposed through sources like drinking water, academics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should not have any doubts as to whether drinking water with uranium in it is a problem or not. It is,\" said Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. \"The larger the population that's drinking this water, the more people that are going to be affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because \"there has not been an appreciation of the number of people exposed, it has received a lot less attention\" than it should, said researcher Johnnye Lewis at the University of New Mexico, which along with Brugge's team is studying the health impacts of uranium on communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research teams at Tufts and the University of New Mexico also link long-term exposure to signs of reproductive and genetic damage, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, changes in water standards since the late 2000s have mandated testing for uranium in public water systems, and the state frequently helps public water systems deal with wells testing at high levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I'm Sure A Lot of People Are Unaware'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For private well owners and small water systems, however, officials were unable to point to any public health campaigns in the most affected areas or any help with testing or dealing with wells that do test for high levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USGS researchers recently sampled 170 domestic water wells in the San Joaquin Valley, and found 20 to 25 percent bore uranium at levels that broke federal and state limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal regulators say the U.S. Congress, outlining drinking water standards, has limited its enforcement authority to public water systems. \"Your home's your castle. If you've got a well at home, that's your business,\" said Bruce Macler, a San Francisco-based water program toxicologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uranium is on the radar of California water officials, but the officials are\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/13/nitrates-in-california-drinking-water-new-attention-from-state-water-board/?_ga=1.249130563.514739197.1438904388\" target=\"_blank\"> paying more attention to other farming-related contaminants\u003c/a>, including nitrates, as well as simply having enough water in the fourth year of the state's drought, said John Borkovich, head of water quality at the state Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes to private domestic wells, we do what we can to get the word out,\" Borkovich said. \"It's safe to say that there's always more that can be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press commissioned sampling of wells at five homes in the countryside outside Modesto, to look more closely at whether unregulated private wells that families depend on were as vulnerable as contaminated public water systems nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results: Water from two of the five wells contained dangerous levels of uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the five families, however, had ever heard that uranium could be a problem in groundwater — let alone that it was a problem in their area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something I'm sure a lot of people are unaware of,\" said Reyna Rico, whose rural home overlooking farm fields had a well that tested three times the federal and state health limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be nice to be informed, so we can make an informed decision, and those wells can be tested,\" said a resident nearby, Michelle Norleen, who was relieved to know that her own water — unlike those of two of her neighbors — tested below the limits in the AP sampling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for bigger water systems for which government help is available, accessing safe water doesn't always come quickly. That's true at the Double L Mobile Ranch outside Fresno, where Giselle Alvarez lives in a one-room trailer with her mother and father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have recorded years of tests showing dangerous levels of uranium in the water provided to the Double L's low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park's owner, Carl Hunt, minimized the health risks to the families who live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not afraid of that water at all,\" Hunt told the AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent water test commissioned by the AP found water at Hunt's trailer park remained over the limits for uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials trying to set up delivery of safe water for the Double L's families have arranged with a local farm town, Kerman, to run its own water lines out to the trailer park — but Kerman is awaiting funding to deal with its own, uranium-contaminated well first. State officials expect it will take another three years to get safe water to the trailer park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, families in the rural trailer park mostly throw away the regular water notices, unable to comprehend their meaning. Suspicious in general of the park's tap water, families at the Double L who can afford it buy bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn't include Alvarez's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't really do anything about it,\" she says on the wooden steps of her mobile home. \"As you can see, we're not rich.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuel Valdes and Serdar Tumgoren contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At particular risk are the San Joaquin Valley families who rely on private wells; as many as one out of every four of them are unknowingly drinking dangerous amounts of uranium, researchers determined this year and last. Government authorities say long-term exposure to uranium can damage kidneys and raise cancer risks, and scientists say it can have other harmful effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this swath of farmland, roughly 250 miles long and encompassing major cities, including Fresno, Bakersfield, and Modesto, the pre-treated water of up to one in 10 public systems has uranium levels that exceed federal and state safety standards, the \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1358/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Geological Survey has found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, nearly 2 million people in California's Central Valley and in the U.S. Midwest live within a half-mile of groundwater containing uranium over the safety standards, University of Nebraska researchers said in a study published in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything from state agencies to tiny rural schools are scrambling to deal with hundreds of tainted public wells — more regulated than private wells under safe-drinking-water laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes water wells at Westport Elementary School, where 450 children from rural families study outside the Central California farm hub of Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Westport's playground, schoolchildren take a break from tetherball to sip from fountains marked with Spanish and English placards: \"SAFE TO DRINK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which draws on its own wells for its drinking fountains, sinks and cafeteria, is one of about 10 water systems in the farm region that have installed uranium removal facilities in recent years. Prices range from $65,000 for the smallest system to millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Just off Westport's playground, a school maintenance chief jangles the keys to the school's treatment operation, locked in a shed the size of a garage. Inside, a system of tubes, dials and canisters resembling large scuba tanks removes up to a pound a year of uranium from the school's wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uranium gleaned from the school's well water and other Central California water systems is handled like the nuclear material it is — taken away by workers in masks, gloves and other protective garments, said Ron Dollar, a vice president at Water Remediation Technology, a Colorado-based firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is then processed into nuclear fuel for power plants, Dollar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before treatment, Westport's water tested up to four times state and federal limits. After treatment, it's safe for the children, teachers and staff to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Central California farm schools opt to buy bottled water in place of drinking fountains, which are off limits because of uranium and other contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have a choice,\" said Terri Lancaster, principal of the 260 students at Waukena Elementary School in rural Tulare County. \"You do what you have to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until winning a state grant to pay for trucked-in drinking water, her school was spending $10,000 a year from its general fund on bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of Modesto, with a half-million residents, recently spent more than $500,000 to start blending water from one contaminated well to dilute the uranium to safe levels. The city has retired a half-dozen other wells with excess levels of uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials don't track spending on uranium-contaminated wells. But the state's Water Resources Control Board identified at least $16.7 million the state has spent since 2010 helping public water systems deal with high levels of uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coming years, more public water systems likely will be compelled to invest in such costly fixes, said Miranda Fram, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fram and colleagues at USGS have taken the lead over the past decade in identifying the problem in farm centers, including Central California, which produces a quarter of the country's agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geologists and water experts are still piecing together the ways in which levels of uranium exceeding federal and state health standards are seeping into more public water systems and household wells in major farm areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fram and her colleagues believe the amount of uranium increased in Central Valley drinking water supplies over the last 150 years with the spread of farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, as in the Rockies, mountain snowmelt washes uranium-laden sediment to the flatlands, where groundwater is used to irrigate crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irrigation allows year-round farming, and the irrigated plants naturally create a weak acid that is leeching more and more uranium from sediment, said Fram and Bryant Jurgens, another USGS researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ongoing Drought is a Factor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groundwater pumping pulls the contaminated water down into the earth, where it is tapped by wells that supply drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is now experiencing its driest four-year span on record, and farmers and other users are pumping groundwater at the highest rates ever, helping to pull yet more uranium into areas of aquifers tapped by water wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been a decades-long process that has occurred,\" Jurgens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if authorities were to intervene to somehow curb uranium contamination — and no such effort is under way — \"we expect that it's going to take many decades to reverse this,\" Jurgens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should not have any doubts as to whether drinking water with uranium in it is a problem or not. It is.' \u003ccite>Doug Brugge, professor of public health, Tufts University School of Medicine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The USGS calculates that the average level of uranium in public-supply wells of the eastern San Joaquin Valley increased 17 percent from 1990 to the mid-2000s. The number of public-supply wells with unsafe levels of uranium, meantime, climbed from 7 percent to 10 percent over the same period there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problem remains so unpublicized that even Fresno County farmer Mark Sorensen — who grows grapes and blueberries in one of the most impacted parts of the country, and deals with water issues routinely as a leader of the local farm bureau — admits to not knowing about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be honest, I have never spoken to anybody about uranium,\" said Sorensen, a fifth-generation farmer. \"I've never even heard of it in drinking water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have long known that uranium can damage kidneys and increase the risks of cancer when consumed over a year or more, which is why authorities have set maximum levels for drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drinking water tainted by uranium is the chief concern — but uranium also sticks to potatoes, radishes and other root vegetables if they're not properly washed. (While studies have confirmed livestock and people can ingest high levels of uranium by eating contaminated vegetation, scientists have yet to fully research the dangers involved.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though people think mainly about uranium's radioactivity, the danger in water mainly comes from the toxic chemical effects of the metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Old public health models for uranium date back to the U.S. uranium boom of the 1940s and 1950s, when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission set off a nuclear-age mining boom in the Central Valley and other points West as the country sought to build uranium stockpiles. Countless miners succumbed to cancer from breathing radioactive gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those models now need revising to deal with the larger population exposed through sources like drinking water, academics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should not have any doubts as to whether drinking water with uranium in it is a problem or not. It is,\" said Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. \"The larger the population that's drinking this water, the more people that are going to be affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because \"there has not been an appreciation of the number of people exposed, it has received a lot less attention\" than it should, said researcher Johnnye Lewis at the University of New Mexico, which along with Brugge's team is studying the health impacts of uranium on communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research teams at Tufts and the University of New Mexico also link long-term exposure to signs of reproductive and genetic damage, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, changes in water standards since the late 2000s have mandated testing for uranium in public water systems, and the state frequently helps public water systems deal with wells testing at high levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I'm Sure A Lot of People Are Unaware'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For private well owners and small water systems, however, officials were unable to point to any public health campaigns in the most affected areas or any help with testing or dealing with wells that do test for high levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USGS researchers recently sampled 170 domestic water wells in the San Joaquin Valley, and found 20 to 25 percent bore uranium at levels that broke federal and state limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal regulators say the U.S. Congress, outlining drinking water standards, has limited its enforcement authority to public water systems. \"Your home's your castle. 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That's true at the Double L Mobile Ranch outside Fresno, where Giselle Alvarez lives in a one-room trailer with her mother and father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have recorded years of tests showing dangerous levels of uranium in the water provided to the Double L's low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park's owner, Carl Hunt, minimized the health risks to the families who live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not afraid of that water at all,\" Hunt told the AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent water test commissioned by the AP found water at Hunt's trailer park remained over the limits for uranium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials trying to set up delivery of safe water for the Double L's families have arranged with a local farm town, Kerman, to run its own water lines out to the trailer park — but Kerman is awaiting funding to deal with its own, uranium-contaminated well first. 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"content": "\u003cp>Carbon accounting aside, Governor Jerry Brown is leaving an outsize personal footprint in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite cutting a day off the front of his trip, in order to travel to the site of this week’s San Bernardino shootings, the California governor is devoting nearly a week to the U.N. \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2015/11/25/paris-climate-conference-cop21/#dJnJw3xGskqp\">climate talks, known as COP21.\u003c/a> Brown plans to participate in an array of events through Wednesday, ranging from keynote remarks to a signing ceremony for his pet project, the subnational climate agreement known as the \u003ca href=\"http://under2mou.org/\">Under 2 MOU\u003c/a>. 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And that says, for all the signatories [now nearly 60 different states and provinces and a few countries] that the signatory will do whatever it takes to keep temperature within the two-degree centigrade target of the U.N. Panel on Climate Change. And in the alternative, the goal will be by 2050 to emit no more than two tons [of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases] per person, which requires radical change and heroic effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: Why not just leave this work to the United Nations?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> Well, the national governments have been a bit timid to say the least. Whereas the states and provinces like Quebec and Ontario or British Columbia, Washington, Oregon — a lot of places are ready to commit themselves to keeping the temperature below two degrees centigrade, and take whatever steps are necessary to achieve that goal. That’s more than the nation-states. They’re far more modest in their commitments, so we have to light the fire, if I could use that metaphor for climate change. We are filling quite a void because the Republican congress and all of the Republican candidates are in a very deep state of denial, despite the vast, overwhelming scientific consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_394516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-394516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-800x1200.jpg\" alt='In the run-up to the Paris climate talks, the Alternatiba association organized a \"Village of Alternatives\" for the environment and the climate, over the weekend of Sept. 26-27. 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And we are deeply and measurably \u003ca href=\"http://under2mou.org/?page_id=146\">committed to a sequence of actions\u003c/a>, which we’re taking. And as we prove that those are not only consistent with economic prosperity but foster it, I believe we’ll get takers, we’ll get people who say, ‘Well yeah, maybe that makes sense.’ And we can give the lie to the [climate science] denialists — which by the way are not only absolutely dominant in the Republican party but are evident in the Wall Street Journal and and other publications that spew the same kind of … false scientific statements that we saw in the tobacco industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: Your critics say that Californians are bearing the brunt of our climate policies when the state clearly can’t solve climate change alone.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> Well you say ‘bearing the brunt.’ If the world and therefore United States goes beyond the 2-degree centigrade, sea level rise, extreme weather events, drought, extreme heat — there is real catastrophe on the way. There’s a big risk here. And people say, ‘go it alone’ — somebody has to wake up the country and those parts of the world that are blind to the real danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Eighty percent of Californians consider the changing climate to be a ‘very serious problem,’ though fully a third of Republican respondents said it’s not a problem at all.\u003ccite>Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The migration that is undermining Europe and is destabilizing governments from Germany to Spain is, in part — well, it’s certainly due to all the turmoil. But some of the turmoil is due to famine and drought along with the military threat. So we’re getting an early preview of a warmed planet. And we know that people in Africa and the Middle East — it will get so hot that won’t even be livable. And we’re talking well within the lifetime of most people listening to this show. So this is an imperative. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Carbon accounting aside, Governor Jerry Brown is leaving an outsize personal footprint in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite cutting a day off the front of his trip, in order to travel to the site of this week’s San Bernardino shootings, the California governor is devoting nearly a week to the U.N. \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2015/11/25/paris-climate-conference-cop21/#dJnJw3xGskqp\">climate talks, known as COP21.\u003c/a> Brown plans to participate in an array of events through Wednesday, ranging from keynote remarks to a signing ceremony for his pet project, the subnational climate agreement known as the \u003ca href=\"http://under2mou.org/\">Under 2 MOU\u003c/a>. While California is not a nation-state and hence not an official party to the negotiations, it’s widely accepted that the Golden State maintains a high profile on the transnational climate scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We are filling quite a void because the Republican Congress and all of the Republican candidates are in a very deep state of denial.’\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Brown expanded a prior commitment to hasten \u003ca href=\"http://zevalliance.org\">conversion of cars to “zero-emission vehicles,”\u003c/a> or ZEVs. A dozen North American and European governments now join California in pledging that they will “strive to make all passenger vehicle sales in our jurisdictions ZEVs as fast as possible and no later than 2050.” California currently has 24 million registered autos — about two for every household in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to his departure for Paris, the governor talked with KQED’s Lauren Sommer about his hopes for the conference and what California can bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sommer: What do you hope to accomplish in Paris?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown:\u003c/strong> My intention is to join with other states and provinces and even countries that are pushing for a real solid response to the threat of climate change. I’ve worked with others to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/16/governor-brown-takes-climate-message-to-world-stage/\">develop our Under 2 MOU\u003c/a>. And that says, for all the signatories [now nearly 60 different states and provinces and a few countries] that the signatory will do whatever it takes to keep temperature within the two-degree centigrade target of the U.N. Panel on Climate Change. And in the alternative, the goal will be by 2050 to emit no more than two tons [of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases] per person, which requires radical change and heroic effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: Why not just leave this work to the United Nations?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> Well, the national governments have been a bit timid to say the least. Whereas the states and provinces like Quebec and Ontario or British Columbia, Washington, Oregon — a lot of places are ready to commit themselves to keeping the temperature below two degrees centigrade, and take whatever steps are necessary to achieve that goal. That’s more than the nation-states. They’re far more modest in their commitments, so we have to light the fire, if I could use that metaphor for climate change. We are filling quite a void because the Republican congress and all of the Republican candidates are in a very deep state of denial, despite the vast, overwhelming scientific consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_394516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-394516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-800x1200.jpg\" alt='In the run-up to the Paris climate talks, the Alternatiba association organized a \"Village of Alternatives\" for the environment and the climate, over the weekend of Sept. 26-27. This t-shirt advocates legal rights for Earth.' width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/21562946249_82085d2126_k.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the run-up to the Paris climate talks, the Alternatiba association organized a “Village of Alternatives” for the environment and the climate, over the weekend of Sept. 26-27. This t-shirt advocates legal rights for Earth. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/philippeleroyer/21562946249/in/album-72157659162608545/\" target=\"_blank\">philippe leroyer/flickr Creative Commons\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: What cues can other places take from California? Why should they listen to us?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> We have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/28/california-leads-on-climate-policy-but-also-greenhouse-gases/\">an aggressive, integrated program\u003c/a> to curb greenhouse gases and our economy is growing faster than the national average, so we’re demonstrating both that innovation comes from these environmental efforts: the achievement of reducing greenhouse gases and the generation of new industries, new jobs and aggregate growth in our gross domestic product exceeding that of the nation as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: So, do you see yourself and this state as a force pushing the nation toward climate action?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> It doesn’t quite work that way. But as we know, in Silicon Valley or even in Hollywood, California does set trends. And we are deeply and measurably \u003ca href=\"http://under2mou.org/?page_id=146\">committed to a sequence of actions\u003c/a>, which we’re taking. And as we prove that those are not only consistent with economic prosperity but foster it, I believe we’ll get takers, we’ll get people who say, ‘Well yeah, maybe that makes sense.’ And we can give the lie to the [climate science] denialists — which by the way are not only absolutely dominant in the Republican party but are evident in the Wall Street Journal and and other publications that spew the same kind of … false scientific statements that we saw in the tobacco industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: Your critics say that Californians are bearing the brunt of our climate policies when the state clearly can’t solve climate change alone.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> Well you say ‘bearing the brunt.’ If the world and therefore United States goes beyond the 2-degree centigrade, sea level rise, extreme weather events, drought, extreme heat — there is real catastrophe on the way. There’s a big risk here. And people say, ‘go it alone’ — somebody has to wake up the country and those parts of the world that are blind to the real danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Eighty percent of Californians consider the changing climate to be a ‘very serious problem,’ though fully a third of Republican respondents said it’s not a problem at all.\u003ccite>Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The migration that is undermining Europe and is destabilizing governments from Germany to Spain is, in part — well, it’s certainly due to all the turmoil. But some of the turmoil is due to famine and drought along with the military threat. So we’re getting an early preview of a warmed planet. And we know that people in Africa and the Middle East — it will get so hot that won’t even be livable. And we’re talking well within the lifetime of most people listening to this show. So this is an imperative. And the fact that the oil companies and the coal companies can silence and censor the entire Republican Party and a number of other sources of power, that doesn’t make it that they are right. They are wrong and we know that. This is real stuff. Now, it may be 30 or 40 years away, but we know there is a threat. We know we can do something about it. And for the most part, we have not yet risen to the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LS: Speaking of rising to occasion, where does China fit into this picture? It’s the world’s largest CO2 producer by far. It seems that no progress is possible without major changes there, no matter what we do in California.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JB:\u003c/strong> Well, in many ways China is showing more concerted effort than many other countries. China has a commitment; they’re building huge amounts of renewable energy. 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Whether in local parks, on neighborhood front lawns or wandering in disorganized groups along local roads, sightings of the rustic, colorful big birds have become a part of the daily scenery for many around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're unwanted scenery for some, like Walnut Creek resident Niki DeSilva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a nuisance,” says DeSilva. “They get in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An avid cyclist, DeSilva is less than nostalgic for the idyllic scenery of old when a gang of 30-pound birds with very little flying talent cross her bike path -- and stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10772094\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10772094\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-800x756.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-400x378.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1440x1361.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-1180x1115.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TurkeyonVan-960x908.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Carly Severn spotted this fella in Berkeley while on her way to work, adding a whole new dynamic to casual carpooling. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She admits it. She hates these birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turkeys just like to park their rear ends in the middle of the trail. And short of me running them over with my bicycle...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her voice trails off. But it doesn’t take too much imagination to guess what DeSilva may be thinking. She won’t do it. But she’s thinking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More because I don’t want to clean up their feathers or their dead carcasses off my bike wheels,” DeSilva admits with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment shared by others. Social boundaries are not part of the wild turkeys' basic priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s going on here? Where did this wild bird come from and why is it on your front lawn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife biologist Joseph DiDonato has been in the Bay Area for more than 20 years. He says Meleagris gallopavo, better known as the California turkey, was actually invited here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the '60s and '70s, the Fish and Game Department decided to increase the amount of turkeys for the sportsman opportunities,” says DiDonato, “and introduced them widely across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now places like the Lafayette Reservoir are filled with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They arrived probably around the year 2000. It was creating quite a stir,” recalls EBMUD park ranger Tom Brackett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was at the East Bay reservoir when the first two arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were talking about the turkeys, and have you seen the turkeys today, and do you know where they are?” Brackett says with a laugh. “Well, those two turkeys had 10 or 12 turkeys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t stop at the reservoir’s edge. DiDonato confirms what has become an obvious fact for many Bay area residents. These turkeys have actually moved into our habitat -- our neighborhoods, streets, parks and school grounds -- and love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/665639620072374272\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/655459073098317824\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ManeMessage/status/656973048373841920\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They love our golf courses. They love our lawns. They love our swim beaches. And they love our neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the population of wild turkeys continues to explode, solutions to reduce their number have been considered. 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