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Otherwise, we’d pump salty water to the farms and the cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rio Vista Bridge spanning the Sacramento River in California on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. The area is part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is the hub of California’s water supply, supplying fresh water to two-thirds of the state’s population and millions of acres of farmland. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The majority of the outflows occur during the wrong time of year when storms inundate the system, he said, and the state doesn’t have the infrastructure to capture it — nor is it always cost-effective to build such infrastructure. Lund also noted that 80% of human water use in California is for agriculture, with the remaining 20% going to cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karrigan Börk, UC Davis law professor and interim director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, said that even if the Trump administration ends up wanting to get rid of environmental protections altogether, there’d be very little water left over for other uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would only free up maybe 12% more water on average and way less water during really dry years because those dry years require so much [water] to keep the delta fresh,” Börk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Helping Southern California with wildfires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s action also says that “the recent deadly and historically destructive wildfires in Southern California underscore why the State of California needs a reliable water supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lund said the water shortages firefighters faced in Southern California had nothing to do with a lack of supply moving from north to south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign from the Lincoln Avenue Water Company reminds all to conserve water in downtown Altadena after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Southern California as a whole had enough water to fight the blazes, but he said there wasn’t enough water in local storage because the fires required “a huge rate” of water use — and with up to 100 mph winds driving flames through areas that hadn’t seen rain since spring, virtually no water system would have been able to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was enough water in storage in Southern California to drown all the acres of fire in more than 20 feet of water,” he said. “The fires were intense over a very large area for several days at a time. That’s just way more than most any conceivable local water storage would be able to deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some of the burned areas are likely connected to water systems that get some of their water from Northern California, Lund said, “the pipes are small relative to the huge rate that you need for water delivery when fighting fires of that size.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Börk compared the situation to everyone in a household taking a shower simultaneously, leaving too little hot water to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that there’s no water coming to your house; it’s that the system in your house isn’t set up to supply three showers at once,” he said. “California, and especially L.A., had the water they needed. They just didn’t have the plumbing to distribute it to the people who are fighting fires fast enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Locked up in litigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The action mentions that during Trump’s first term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957355/its-finally-on-california-files-lawsuit-to-block-trump-administration-water-rules\">California sued\u003c/a> to stop his “administration from implementing improvements to California’s water infrastructure.” Trump’s plan, he said, would have “allowed enormous amounts of water” to flow south from Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireNewsomTrumpAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state argued that the federal government’s plan for delta operations would harm the ecosystem and native California fish species such as the delta smelt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, legal action is likely to again tie up Trump’s plans. According to the executive action, the secretaries of Commerce and the Interior have three months to report to the president on any progress made and provide recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Börk said he’d be astonished if the administration came up with anything substantive in that timeframe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d be pretty surprised if they could do that in less than a couple of years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s plans last time took about four years to develop and were immediately locked up in litigation, Börk said. He expects any new plans to “end up in court again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The area is part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is the hub of California’s water supply, supplying fresh water to two-thirds of the state’s population and millions of acres of farmland. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The majority of the outflows occur during the wrong time of year when storms inundate the system, he said, and the state doesn’t have the infrastructure to capture it — nor is it always cost-effective to build such infrastructure. 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The board’s highest water quality planning priority has been restoring native fish species in the Delta watershed that many tribes rely upon,” Carpenter said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The watershed is the heart of California’s water supply: Covering \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drought/delta/#:~:text=The%20Delta%20watershed%20comprises%20approximately,millions%20of%20acres%20of%20farmland.\">about 20% of California\u003c/a>, it includes the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems and is a vital water source for 27 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland.[aside postID=news_11957413 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1020x680.jpg']The Bay-Delta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/docs/sed/sac_delta_framework_070618%20.pdf\">experiencing an “ecological crisis,” (PDF)\u003c/a> state water regulators have said, including a “prolonged and precipitous decline in numerous native species,” such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/sacramento-river-winter-run-chinook-salmon\">endangered winter-run Chinook salmon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Delta-Smelt\">the tiny Delta smelt\u003c/a>. Intensifying water development, diversions and dwindling freshwater flows have exacerbated the crisis. And the relentless \u003ca href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/california-water-science-center/science/emergency-drought-barriers-impacts-cyanohabs-and\">push of salt water into the Delta and blossoming harmful algal blooms\u003c/a> have left \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">farmers and residents desperate for solutions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy waterways and fisheries are critical to the culture and diet of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and Winnemem Wintu Tribe. Harmful algal blooms, low flows and water contamination also prevent people of color in South Stockton and other communities from using waterways in their neighborhoods for recreation or subsistence fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s decision to investigate comes as water board scientists prepare a staff report on updating the Bay-Delta’s water quality plan. Carpenter said the report will evaluate certain tribal beneficial uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the possible approaches considered in the updated plan will be \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Newsroom/Page-Content/News-List/Agreement-with-Local-Water-Suppliers-to-Improve-the-Health-of-Rivers-and-Landscapes\">a $2.6 billion\u003c/a> deal that Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/NewsRoom/Voluntary-Agreement-Package-March-29-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">struck last March with major water suppliers and agricultural irrigation districts (PDF)\u003c/a>, which voluntarily agreed to address flows and habitats in the Delta.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dillon Delvo, executive director, Little Manila Rising\"]‘As long as the state upholds historic water rights, that we all know to be racist and unfair, we will continue to have first- and second-class California communities.’[/pullquote]Tribes and environmental organizations said the deal came from backroom negotiations between water suppliers and officials that excluded people of color, and that it “fails to protect the health of the estuary, its native fish and wildlife, and the jobs and communities that depend on its health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint mentions Newsom’s voluntary agreements 52 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As long as the state upholds historic water rights, that we all know to be racist and unfair, we will continue to have first- and second-class California communities,” Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, an organization based in Stockton, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA said in its letter that while an investigation “is not a decision on the merits,” the complaint meets the requirements for initiating its probe, including that “it alleges discriminatory acts by the Board which is a recipient of EPA financial assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s water board will have 30 days to respond, and the EPA will issue its findings within the next six months unless both sides agree to resolve the issue informally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Bay-Delta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/docs/sed/sac_delta_framework_070618%20.pdf\">experiencing an “ecological crisis,” (PDF)\u003c/a> state water regulators have said, including a “prolonged and precipitous decline in numerous native species,” such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/sacramento-river-winter-run-chinook-salmon\">endangered winter-run Chinook salmon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Delta-Smelt\">the tiny Delta smelt\u003c/a>. Intensifying water development, diversions and dwindling freshwater flows have exacerbated the crisis. And the relentless \u003ca href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/california-water-science-center/science/emergency-drought-barriers-impacts-cyanohabs-and\">push of salt water into the Delta and blossoming harmful algal blooms\u003c/a> have left \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">farmers and residents desperate for solutions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy waterways and fisheries are critical to the culture and diet of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and Winnemem Wintu Tribe. Harmful algal blooms, low flows and water contamination also prevent people of color in South Stockton and other communities from using waterways in their neighborhoods for recreation or subsistence fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s decision to investigate comes as water board scientists prepare a staff report on updating the Bay-Delta’s water quality plan. Carpenter said the report will evaluate certain tribal beneficial uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the possible approaches considered in the updated plan will be \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Newsroom/Page-Content/News-List/Agreement-with-Local-Water-Suppliers-to-Improve-the-Health-of-Rivers-and-Landscapes\">a $2.6 billion\u003c/a> deal that Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/NewsRoom/Voluntary-Agreement-Package-March-29-2022.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">struck last March with major water suppliers and agricultural irrigation districts (PDF)\u003c/a>, which voluntarily agreed to address flows and habitats in the Delta.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an aggressive move to address “immediate and dire water shortages,” California’s water board on Tuesday unanimously approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drought/delta/docs/080321_5_drftregs.pdf\">emergency regulations\u003c/a> to temporarily stop thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new regulations — the first to take such widespread action for the massive delta watershed stretching from Fresno to the border with Oregon — could lead to formal curtailment orders for about 5,700 water rights holders as soon as Aug. 16. The decision comes on the heels of curtailment orders issued to nearly 900 water users along the drought-stricken Russian River, with 222 more expected next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Adam Gray, D-Merced\"]‘Growers will have to risk significant fines and penalties just to find out whether the Board actually has the authority it claims. Either way, they lose.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/about_us/board_members/\">five water board members\u003c/a>, who were appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom or former Gov. Jerry Brown, approved the rule despite vehement opposition from representatives of Central Valley growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://grove.cssrc.us/\">Shannon Grove\u003c/a>, R-Bakersfield, said the regulation would “disrupt the critical production of essential food … Instead, the state should focus on expanding water storage and upgrading its existing water infrastructure, not punish local water managers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a21.asmdc.org/\">Adam Gray\u003c/a>, D-Merced, called the curtailment orders for senior water rights holders “one of the most destructive measures possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board’s legal authority is by no means certain,” Gray wrote to the board. “Growers will have to risk significant fines and penalties just to find out whether the Board actually has the authority it claims. Either way, they lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water users who continue to divert could face penalties of up to $1,000 per day plus $2,500 per acre-foot of illegally diverted water, according to Erik Ekdahl, deputy director of the board’s division of water rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A grey-colored buoy sits on the floor of a lake. The buoy sits on wet sand as there is barely any water. Only a puddle is visible behind the buoy.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A buoy sits on the exposed floor of Lake Oroville on July 22, 2021. Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June were the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for water from rivers and streams has outstripped supply 16-fold in the San Joaquin River watershed and three-fold in the Sacramento River, according to State Water Resources Control Board staff. Dwindling flows risk salty backwash from the Pacific, tainting supplies for drinking, farmers and fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture\"]‘Mother Nature and climate change have brought us the situation that we have … not making these decisions would have even more horrendous impacts for people.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/SecretaryBio.htm\">Karen Ross\u003c/a>, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, told the water board that “this year there’s plenty of pain to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mother Nature and climate change have brought us the situation that we have. And therefore the decisions that you have to make have very real impacts on people. But not making these decisions would have even more horrendous impacts for people,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, six growers organizations, including the California Farm Bureau and the Almond Alliance of California, said in a comment letter that the board does not have authority to curtail the rights of users with claims for properties next to waterways or that predate 1914 — the year California \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.html\">enacted its water rights law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treading lightly there is probably a good idea on a prudential basis,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfbf.com/lawyersbio/daniel-test/\">Chris Scheuring\u003c/a>, senior counsel for the California Farm Bureau, said at Tuesday’s meeting. He also warned that smaller growers “could run afoul of an order or something in a very inadvertent way. We don’t want draconian penalties there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a face behind all of this,” he said. “And those faces actually include my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irrigation districts also warned that the water board acted too quickly and may have violated due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just too fast, you’ve got to listen to stakeholders in this process,” said Valerie Kincaid, a water law attorney who represents the \u003ca href=\"http://sjta.wpengine.com/\">San Joaquin Tributaries Authority\u003c/a>, a coalition of irrigation districts and water agencies. “We now have a draft regulation that exceeds water board authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Diane Bond, Shasta County resident\"]‘We have no water for fire suppression and the fish and wildlife are dying. We have put out water for the wildlife near our property. It is heart-wrenching to see our creek dry.’[/pullquote]A similar critique came during the last drought when, in 2015, six irrigation districts sued the state over its efforts to stop some delta diversions. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"https://bbid.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/BBID-Stmnt-of-Decision-Order-2-21-18.pdf\">ruled that the state violated their due process\u003c/a> by failing to give them a “meaningful opportunity, including some form of public hearing, to challenge the board’s finding before they are ordered to curtail their water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, state officials said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-delta-drought/\">at a July workshop\u003c/a> that they were giving ample notice and opportunity for input. They said the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/05/drought-emergency-declared-central-valley-klamath/\">drought emergency declarations\u003c/a> ensured they were “on very firm legal footing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents, however, urged the water board to act quickly. One Shasta County resident, Diane Bond, wrote that because of heavy diversions, a critical creek in the region is all but dry. She urged the board to consider stopping all diversions regardless of seniority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no water for fire suppression and the fish and wildlife are dying. We have put out water for the wildlife near our property. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-25b-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta looks and feels different than any other part of the state. There are over 1,000 miles of waterways, and nearly 60 islands. Even though a lot of these islands are connected by bridges, a lot of the people in the Delta are pretty isolated. There’s a person in the eastern part of the Delta who’s a lifeline -- the only mailman in California who delivers by boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every week, every day, except Sunday, Rick Stelzriede pulls out from a marina on King Island near Stockton. He takes his 21-foot aluminum boat about 60 miles, visiting marinas and designated docks. 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In the spring he gets his most unusual packages: He’s delivered plants, pheasants, even swans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he drops off mail at the home of an 82-year-old friend who lives on an island the size of a suburban house lot, I tell him the Delta reminds me of parts of the California desert, where some people go to drop out of society, to get lost. Stelzriede agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely,” he says. “When I came back out here in ’96, that’s why I came out, just to get lost. 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(Tony George/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For me it was all about cleaning up,” he says. “I had been on prescription pain medication for years and years, and for me, I lost my family, house, shut my business down, lost everything.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to the Delta and realized life can be simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beavers get along with the otters, the otters get along with the muskrats, birds get along, everyone seems to co-exist really well,” he says. “Why can’t it be that way everywhere? So I just took it upon myself to fix me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, he started helping out an elderly friend who had the mail route, then took it over full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I’m out here forever now,” Stelzriede says as we head back into the marina at King Island. “I’ll never leave this place. To me, this is about as close to God as you can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/24/life-of-the-california-delta-farmers-fishermen-and-a-mailman/\" target=\"_blank\">Faces of the Delta\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404111630/f\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Livelihoods Take Hit as Recreation Declines\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404181630/e\" target=\"_blank\">Levee Upkeep a Crucial Job in the Delta\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s really clear as we approach a stop where more than 30 people get their mail, even though there’s no mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a small bridge, and Stelzriede points out an attached safety cage where bridge tender Ramon Gonzalez is doing maintenance work. He spots Stelzriede, and they call out to each other in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141038\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/MailBridgeRope.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/MailBridgeRope-305x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Stelzreide exchanges outgoing and incoming mail with bridge tender Ramon Gonzalez -- via a bucket and rope. (Tony George/KQED)\" width=\"305\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141038\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Stelzreide exchanges outgoing and incoming mail with bridge tender Ramon Gonzalez -- via a bucket and rope. (Tony George/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez climbs out of the cage and up the side of the bridge to fetch a bucket. Stelzriede labors to keep his boat in one place while reaching for the bucket Gonzalez lowers, filled with outgoing mail. The whole exchange takes just a few minutes, with the two men in synch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water’s choppy as we head out to a large body of water called Frank’s Tract. We see Mt. Diablo to the left and Antioch to the right, but just barely. The water’s rough enough that Stelzriede turns on his windshield wipers in order to see clearly. This time of year, Stelzriede navigates through soupy fog and around dangerous obstacles in the water, and he’s got to keep an eye out for what appear to be as many as 12 super-sized bales of hay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explains that they’re actually duck blinds, spaces that hunters pull their boats into for easy access to the Delta’s waterfowl. In the summer Stelzriede keeps an eye out for boaters racing or pulling water skiers. In the spring he gets his most unusual packages: He’s delivered plants, pheasants, even swans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he drops off mail at the home of an 82-year-old friend who lives on an island the size of a suburban house lot, I tell him the Delta reminds me of parts of the California desert, where some people go to drop out of society, to get lost. Stelzriede agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely,” he says. “When I came back out here in ’96, that’s why I came out, just to get lost. 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To me, this is about as close to God as you can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/24/life-of-the-california-delta-farmers-fishermen-and-a-mailman/\" target=\"_blank\">Faces of the Delta\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404111630/f\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Livelihoods Take Hit as Recreation Declines\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404181630/e\" target=\"_blank\">Levee Upkeep a Crucial Job in the Delta\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-18e-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been getting to know some of the people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. We’ve met farmers, fishing guides and marina owners. All those industries rely on levees that form rims around the dozens of islands in the Delta, holding back the water that can be 20 feet higher than the farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state. So I headed to the levees to meet the people who know them best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Scriven is driving a big truck on the levees of an island called Terminous. He’s in charge of maintaining the levees here, and that means he’s looking for … squirrels. He spots something out his window, stops the truck, and shows me freshly dug holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now here’s something that we’re always watching for, is all this squirrel activity that you see here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a danger sign to Scriven. Squirrels, he says, can burrow into or underneath a levee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they go all the way through, we’ll have water come through the levee,” he explains. “They’re hard workers!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says animals are a main cause of levee failure. On another part of the levee, up on a road, he points out track marks left by a beaver or otter. If beavers make dens in the levees, he tells me, water can seep through, weakening the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water in the Delta rises high above the farmland, and levees hold it back. Scriven says, “If that starts really getting high water, and there’s a lot of pressure, you can have a failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Scriven or one of his employees checks these levees every day, at least once. If they see a wet spot growing, they dig into the core of the levee to intercept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have material, like Gunnite, that we mix with dirt and it becomes very hard,” Scriven says. “We dig below where water is seeping through and build it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance-256x225.jpg\" alt=\"A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"256\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scriven was elected to a governing board on Terminous. Almost every island has one. Besides inspecting and improving the levees, his job includes maintaining pumps and canals. The work is covered in part by money collected from a tax that landowners impose on themselves. Scriven says the government provides funding, too, as long as they can prove they’re improving the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The levee has to be this high and this wide,” he says. “It can have this on the levee, it can’t have that on the levee. If you don’t attempt to reach those standards, you won’t receive funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways, railroads and energy, and petroleum lines depend on strong levees. Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says what he and his neighbors get most concerned about is when there’s both high water and high wind. He knows what havoc that combination can wreak from when he was farming Holland Tract in the western part of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally lost Holland Tract in 1980 due to overtopping,” he says. “The day it flooded, I can still remember, it was a very clear sunny day in February, but the wind was blowing 40-45 mph out of the north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind blew over a large body of water next to Holland Tract, causing larger-than-normal waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I were standing right next to section that broke, sandbagging with workers, to keep it from washing, and we lost,” he says. “The whole 2,500-foot section of levee just rolled over and water poured in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven and his partner reclaimed Holland Tract, draining the island and fixing the levees with government help. He says there have been a few close calls, but never a breach on Terminous. Raising the levees and inspecting and maintaining them with vigilance has a lot to do with that, but Scriven takes nothing for granted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta be lucky,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I head off the island and travel about 15 miles to the town of Rio Vista. I’ve got an appointment there with Janet Bennett, whose family has a long history in the Delta. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett welcomes me into a lovely 100-year-old house at the top of a residential street. It’s very homey, except for the half-dozen tools called clamshell buckets displayed around the yard. They’re huge. Some are taller than I am. For decades, levees were made from tools like these attached to dredgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141078\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural-317x225.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This building is the Dutra Museum of Dredging. Bennett explains that her late mother and stepfather, Ed Dutra, turned this residence into a museum in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett flips through displays of photos and engineering designs of dredgers, hand-drawn on linen. She shows off paintings and scale models of dredgers. There’s a mural that depicts the Delta’s history and physical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that during the Gold Rush, the population ramped up exponentially with both people and animals, and they all had to be fed,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a process called reclamation began. The state sold what it defined as swampland to farmers, who drained it and built levees to create prime farmland. A mostly Chinese labor force built the first levees by hand. Eventually companies used dredgers and clamshell buckets to move sand and mud from the waterways and build up levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says, “Buckets got larger, booms got larger, and this helped in reclamation work here in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dredging played a huge role in building the levees, but today maintenance and repair work looks different. I see that firsthand, about 40 minutes away on Rindge Tract. Three barges sit side by side in the water; the one closest to the levee has a crane attached and the other two are loaded with rock. Project engineer Ryan Abood is overseeing levee maintenance work, and explains the process to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first step is to get the quarry stone on the barge,” he says. That happens at a rock quarry in San Rafael. “Then it’s towed up by tug to this location, which is about a 12-hour, one-way trip for our tugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood says they take two flat deck barges at a time, with each barge carrying about 2,000 tons of rock, which is called riprap. Then the crane barge scoops the rock off the barges, swings it over and places it on the levee to help prevent erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood is 37 years old. He was born and raised in the Delta, in the town of Isleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living on an island so you’re surrounded by levees,” he says. “To get to the river you’ve got to be up on the levees. Growing up, we would ride our bikes around an island all day long, drink the river. If you’re going to go fishing, you’re fishing off the levee. We were always out on the boat, water-skiing, enjoying the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in his 20s he got into a pretty bad accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took my ‘66 Mustang off a levee and rolled it between Rio Vista and Isleton,” he says. “There are a few friends that lost their lives on the levee system, going into the river or head-ons. It’s part of life out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levees weren’t just part of the landscape, though. Abood grew up helping fill sandbags during a flood and watching people do maintenance work on the levees for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was around all the time,” he says. “I always thought it would be cool for me to work in the Delta, work on the rivers, so here I am,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of people like him, the levees are still here, too, part of the interdependent relationship between the water and the people who make the Delta what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Livelihoods Take Hit as Recreation Declines\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-18e-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been getting to know some of the people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. We’ve met farmers, fishing guides and marina owners. All those industries rely on levees that form rims around the dozens of islands in the Delta, holding back the water that can be 20 feet higher than the farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state. So I headed to the levees to meet the people who know them best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Scriven is driving a big truck on the levees of an island called Terminous. He’s in charge of maintaining the levees here, and that means he’s looking for … squirrels. He spots something out his window, stops the truck, and shows me freshly dug holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now here’s something that we’re always watching for, is all this squirrel activity that you see here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a danger sign to Scriven. Squirrels, he says, can burrow into or underneath a levee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they go all the way through, we’ll have water come through the levee,” he explains. “They’re hard workers!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says animals are a main cause of levee failure. On another part of the levee, up on a road, he points out track marks left by a beaver or otter. If beavers make dens in the levees, he tells me, water can seep through, weakening the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water in the Delta rises high above the farmland, and levees hold it back. Scriven says, “If that starts really getting high water, and there’s a lot of pressure, you can have a failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Scriven or one of his employees checks these levees every day, at least once. If they see a wet spot growing, they dig into the core of the levee to intercept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have material, like Gunnite, that we mix with dirt and it becomes very hard,” Scriven says. “We dig below where water is seeping through and build it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMaintainance-256x225.jpg\" alt=\"A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"256\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crane barge takes a load off a rock barge as part of a levee maintenance operation in the Delta. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scriven was elected to a governing board on Terminous. Almost every island has one. Besides inspecting and improving the levees, his job includes maintaining pumps and canals. The work is covered in part by money collected from a tax that landowners impose on themselves. Scriven says the government provides funding, too, as long as they can prove they’re improving the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The levee has to be this high and this wide,” he says. “It can have this on the levee, it can’t have that on the levee. If you don’t attempt to reach those standards, you won’t receive funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways, railroads and energy, and petroleum lines depend on strong levees. Major failures could impact the quality of the Delta’s water, which is diverted to much of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven says what he and his neighbors get most concerned about is when there’s both high water and high wind. He knows what havoc that combination can wreak from when he was farming Holland Tract in the western part of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally lost Holland Tract in 1980 due to overtopping,” he says. “The day it flooded, I can still remember, it was a very clear sunny day in February, but the wind was blowing 40-45 mph out of the north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind blew over a large body of water next to Holland Tract, causing larger-than-normal waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I were standing right next to section that broke, sandbagging with workers, to keep it from washing, and we lost,” he says. “The whole 2,500-foot section of levee just rolled over and water poured in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scriven and his partner reclaimed Holland Tract, draining the island and fixing the levees with government help. He says there have been a few close calls, but never a breach on Terminous. Raising the levees and inspecting and maintaining them with vigilance has a lot to do with that, but Scriven takes nothing for granted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You gotta be lucky,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I head off the island and travel about 15 miles to the town of Rio Vista. I’ve got an appointment there with Janet Bennett, whose family has a long history in the Delta. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett welcomes me into a lovely 100-year-old house at the top of a residential street. It’s very homey, except for the half-dozen tools called clamshell buckets displayed around the yard. They’re huge. Some are taller than I am. For decades, levees were made from tools like these attached to dredgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141078\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/LeveeMural-317x225.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Dutra Museum of Dredging, a mural fills one wall, depicting the Delta's history and its physical transformation. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This building is the Dutra Museum of Dredging. Bennett explains that her late mother and stepfather, Ed Dutra, turned this residence into a museum in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett flips through displays of photos and engineering designs of dredgers, hand-drawn on linen. She shows off paintings and scale models of dredgers. There’s a mural that depicts the Delta’s history and physical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that during the Gold Rush, the population ramped up exponentially with both people and animals, and they all had to be fed,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a process called reclamation began. The state sold what it defined as swampland to farmers, who drained it and built levees to create prime farmland. A mostly Chinese labor force built the first levees by hand. Eventually companies used dredgers and clamshell buckets to move sand and mud from the waterways and build up levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says, “Buckets got larger, booms got larger, and this helped in reclamation work here in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dredging played a huge role in building the levees, but today maintenance and repair work looks different. I see that firsthand, about 40 minutes away on Rindge Tract. Three barges sit side by side in the water; the one closest to the levee has a crane attached and the other two are loaded with rock. Project engineer Ryan Abood is overseeing levee maintenance work, and explains the process to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first step is to get the quarry stone on the barge,” he says. That happens at a rock quarry in San Rafael. “Then it’s towed up by tug to this location, which is about a 12-hour, one-way trip for our tugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood says they take two flat deck barges at a time, with each barge carrying about 2,000 tons of rock, which is called riprap. Then the crane barge scoops the rock off the barges, swings it over and places it on the levee to help prevent erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abood is 37 years old. He was born and raised in the Delta, in the town of Isleton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living on an island so you’re surrounded by levees,” he says. “To get to the river you’ve got to be up on the levees. Growing up, we would ride our bikes around an island all day long, drink the river. If you’re going to go fishing, you’re fishing off the levee. We were always out on the boat, water-skiing, enjoying the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in his 20s he got into a pretty bad accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took my ‘66 Mustang off a levee and rolled it between Rio Vista and Isleton,” he says. “There are a few friends that lost their lives on the levee system, going into the river or head-ons. It’s part of life out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levees weren’t just part of the landscape, though. Abood grew up helping fill sandbags during a flood and watching people do maintenance work on the levees for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was around all the time,” he says. “I always thought it would be cool for me to work in the Delta, work on the rivers, so here I am,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of people like him, the levees are still here, too, part of the interdependent relationship between the water and the people who make the Delta what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404041630/c\" target=\"_blank\">Farmers in The Delta: Deep Connections to Rich Agricultural History\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-11f-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is the defining feature of the Delta, and recreation on the water -- fishing, windsurfing, water-skiing and boating -- is a big part of the economy and culture of this place. Today, though, a lot of businesses that cater to those recreational pursuits are struggling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I come face to face with this reality one early Tuesday morning. At 7 a.m., a boat named Fishing Fool 4 pulls out of a private dock in the town of Isleton. It’s loaded with poles, bait and four avid fishermen. Its captain is Barry Canavero, who has run Fish Hookers Sport Fishing for 41 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We head down the Sacramento River, into the deep-water channel and under the Rio Vista Bridge, where big ships pass through to the port of Sacramento. We’re headed about 5 miles down the river, to fish for striped bass and sturgeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s cold water makes fish less likely to bite, but Canavero uses a sonar device called a Fishfinder to find the most promising location. He lowers the anchor, and his deckhand (and son-in-law) digs bait out of an ice chest, cuts it, places it on hooks and then casts out five rods, which sit across the back end of the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then … we wait. Off the side of the boat, sturgeon jump, as if they’re taunting us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero explains, “This is a waiting game, it’s watching paint dry.” Passenger Jim Cox adds, “I describe it as hours of tedium broken up with moments of pure panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, there’s a little tug on one of the rods and all four men jump up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero comes from a fishing family – his grandfather, originally from Italy, was a commercial fisherman in nearby Pittsburg before the salmon fishery dwindled in the 1950s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been in every part of fishing you can be in,” Canavero says. “We were manufacturers, we build and sold tackle. I’d go out commercially and get bait to sell to the bait shops. So there isn’t a part of fishing that I haven’t done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of leading fishing trips, Canavero says he’s seen business go down, starting about 10 years ago, and really falling since the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He speculates that people who are worried about money do less recreational fishing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to work every day,\" Canavero says. \"Now, if we could do four days a week we’d be happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent findings of the state’s Delta Protection Commission seem to back up Canavero’s concerns. Even though the agency predicts the population of a dozen counties around the Delta will grow by as much as 50 percent in the next 40 years, growth in water recreation is not expected to keep pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the fish are not there like they used to be,” says Canavero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conclusion of many studies -- and the opinion of the guys on this boat -- is that freshwater diversions from the Delta hurt fish. Farms and cities have been drawing water out of the rivers that feed the Delta for more than a century. Big dams went up in the early '50s, and pumps began shipping water south from the Delta. Canavero is worried that the proposal to build tunnels under the Delta could hurt the fish population even more. And local businesses -- from bait shops to early-morning diners and gas stations -- all depend on customers who fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 12 miles away, Kande Korth is sitting outside at the Pirate’s Lair Marina, where the Mokelumne and San Joaquin rivers meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141099\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen-286x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fishermen wait for bites onboard Barry Canavero's boat, "Fishing Fool IV." (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"286\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141099\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishermen wait for bites onboard Barry Canavero's boat, \"Fishing Fool IV.\" (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a fisherman's paradise in the past, and there’s a lot less fish,” she says. “So, naturally, with less fish there's less fishermen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been in her family a long time. Her great-grandfather, originally from Portugal, moved to the Delta after trying his hand at mining during the Gold Rush. In the 1930s her grandmother and grandfather decided to farm, and bought this undeveloped land at the end of the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started establishing himself here by bringing out oil and gas and hay, and when he returned the next day they were all stolen,” Korth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it happened again, the story goes, her grandmother said, “All we’ve got is a pirate’s lair,” and the name stuck. Korth says this land was tough for her family to farm. They just happened into the boating industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother personally had a small de-masted sailboat that she used to go out on the water herself,” which she would loan out for free to people looking to fish, Korth says. “Finally one day, one of the people insisted on paying her and pressed a silver dollar into her hands and a light bulb went off.” She convinced her husband to build more boats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Korth family runs several marinas in the Delta serving people who love water recreation. People visit the cafe and gift shop in the summer, and store boats here year-round for water-skiing and fishing. In the summer, especially, boaters will get their boats and anchor out, or “hang on the hook,” just find a peaceful spot and spend a few days in nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Korth says business has been tough for marina owners lately. Her records show their gas sales went down 27 percent between 2007 and 2011, though they're starting to recover. Some people with smaller boats pulled them out of marina berths, storing them at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had vacancy levels that I have personally never seen in my lifetime,” she says -- close to 25 percent at the worst of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Korth family offered discounts and promotions, cut back on some capital improvements, and added things like Wi-Fi to stay attractive. Her family is opposed to the tunnels. Even though the state’s plan includes water quality regulations, Korth is concerned that too much freshwater diversion will leave the water here too salty for the fish population. But she’s not trying to be possessive about the water that drains into the Delta\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never really think about the water in the Delta as being that Delta's water,” she says. “It's the state's water. I understand that a certain amount can be diverted without catastrophic harm, but there is a pressure to continue to divert and possibly to divert more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of the fishing day, Capt. Barry Canavero shouts to the owner of a boat nearby, exchanging ideas about where fish might be biting. It’s a poignant reminder of how business has changed: That very boat was one of three Canavero used to own and operate his sportfishing business with. Now he has just this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero leaves the Delta for a month or two each summer, leading fishing trips up the coast. People have paid Canavero to use his boat and expertise for other work. When prices for natural gas were higher, he’d take equipment and workers out to local gas fields. When the Antioch Bridge was under construction, he did the same there. I ask, with so many questions about the future of the Delta, what does he do to plan ahead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs and says, “Retire. 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Farms and cities have been drawing water out of the rivers that feed the Delta for more than a century. Big dams went up in the early '50s, and pumps began shipping water south from the Delta. Canavero is worried that the proposal to build tunnels under the Delta could hurt the fish population even more. And local businesses -- from bait shops to early-morning diners and gas stations -- all depend on customers who fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 12 miles away, Kande Korth is sitting outside at the Pirate’s Lair Marina, where the Mokelumne and San Joaquin rivers meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141099\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen-286x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fishermen wait for bites onboard Barry Canavero's boat, "Fishing Fool IV." 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Her records show their gas sales went down 27 percent between 2007 and 2011, though they're starting to recover. Some people with smaller boats pulled them out of marina berths, storing them at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had vacancy levels that I have personally never seen in my lifetime,” she says -- close to 25 percent at the worst of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Korth family offered discounts and promotions, cut back on some capital improvements, and added things like Wi-Fi to stay attractive. Her family is opposed to the tunnels. Even though the state’s plan includes water quality regulations, Korth is concerned that too much freshwater diversion will leave the water here too salty for the fish population. But she’s not trying to be possessive about the water that drains into the Delta\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never really think about the water in the Delta as being that Delta's water,” she says. “It's the state's water. 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