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Water Supply Protection
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8220.102.01.I
Description
Aspinall (AKA Curecanti)
State
CO
Basin
Gunnison
Water Division
4
Date
1/1/1992
Title
Endangered Fish News Releases
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News Article/Press Release
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<br />"::.' <br /> <br />. <br />Daily Sentinel editorials <br /> <br />-- <br />0/d-.:3/9'f <br /> <br />EIS is in order <br />for fish recovery plan <br /> <br />J <br />.~ <br /> <br />When more than 300 <br />anxious people <br />crowded into Mesa <br />State College's Liff Audito- <br />rium Tuesday night, they <br />were looking for real <br />answers to real questions <br />about how they might be <br />affected by the federal <br />government's never-ending <br />efforts to save the Colorado <br />squawfish and three other <br />native fish species, <br />What they got, for the most <br />part, was a surfeit of bureau- <br />cratic gobbledegook about <br />provisions of the Endan- <br />gered Species Act, arcane <br />regulatory proce~ and a <br />mish-mash of sundry other <br />irrelevancies, <br />It took Steve McCall. the <br />designated moderator of the <br />meeting and a local <br />employee of the V,S. Bureau <br />of Reclamation, to cut <br />through all the fog and cir- <br />cumlocutions to pose the <br />question on the minds of the <br />vast majority of the people <br />in the audience. Credit <br />McCall for asking, on behalf <br />of the audience. how will <br />federal efforts to recover <br />endangered native fish spe- <br />cies affect irrigation water <br />users on the Redlands? <br />The short answer,was this, <br />Not greatly, That's because <br />the 1905 water decree held <br />by the Redlands Water and <br />Power Co, is senior to all but <br />one other water rights hold- <br />er, But junior water rights <br />holders upstream from the <br />Redlands diversion dam <br />might very well be affected <br />by recovery efforts for <br />endangered fish if, in a <br />drought year, the Redlands <br />Co, is forced to place a call <br />on the river to ensure full <br /> <br />utilization of its water rights, <br />From a company that <br />throughout its entire history <br />has placed a call on the <br />river only twice, such action <br />would have' enormous <br />impact from Grand Junction <br />to Delta. <br />Draft proposals of federal <br />recovery efforts. led by <br />former Tim Wirth aide John <br />Hammil who was conspicu- <br />ously absent from Tuesday's <br />meeting, are typically long <br />on the recovery project's <br />anticipated effects on fish <br />but quite short on the <br />project's effects on people. <br />So cavalier are the feds <br />about slapping a sweeping <br />recovery plan on the people <br />of this region that they have <br />chosen to undertake a rela- <br />tively perfunctory environ- <br />mental assessment of their <br />recovery plans rather than <br />the far more detailed envi- <br />ronmental impact statement. <br />Heck, local and regional <br />power companies are <br />required to spend more time <br />assessing the impacts of <br />extending a power line than <br />Hammil & Co, are of imple- <br />menting their swee~ing fish <br />recovery plans. <br />One member of Tuesday's <br />audience said that proposed <br />recovery plans are of such <br />potentially sweeping scope <br />that a full EIS is in order, He <br />was right. <br />"You can't trust those guys <br />(federal officials)" said Red- <br />lands Water & Power Co, <br />president and former Grand <br />Junction mayor Louie Brach, <br />He was right. too, <br />A full-scale EIS will give <br />the public a far greater <br />understanding of what <br />they're up to, <br /> <br />G., 'Y-"'1DU <br /> <br />, <br />! <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />
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