Originally Posted by
Tony Buzolich
Lance,
We've still been fishing the main river for striped bass and the temperatures have been reading 69.5 to 71.? degrees for weeks now.
As for the dredging and the silt build-up down lower, it won't help the salmon or the striped bass come up if there's NO water coming down.
There's an old saying about "follow the money" and this poor water management is a perfect example of that. Yes, we're having a drought, but instead of saving water for people, power, and wildlife, the big money is buying up the managers and sending it to irrigate wasteland in the central valley.
San Diego County by contrast says they have more water than they need and will be good until 2045 if they have to. They have been increasing the higth of their dams, using huge desalination plants to convert sea water, and even using converted waste water from their sanitation plants. There's a really good video on YouTube about San Diego's water.
Tony