That was quick. Just two days after Central Valley irrigators requested a temporary injunction to stop water releases on the Trinity River, a federal judge today denied the request, saying that “the loss of added water supply [to Central Valley irrigators] in 2015 does not outweigh the potentially catastrophic damage that ‘more likely than not’ will occur to this year’s salmon runs in the absence of the 2014 FARs [flow augmentation releases].”
You can read the full decision here.
PREVIOUSLY
- Central Valley Irrigators File Suit to Stop Trinity Water Releases
- Victory! Feds to Revise Trinity River Water Delivery Schedule This Morning
- Fish Kill 2014? No Preventative Trinity River Water Releases This Year, Announces Bureau of Reclamation
- ‘There are fish missing the scales on their bellies and rolling on the bottom of the river’
- (PHOTOS) Dead Fish and Gill Rot in the Trinity River
- Klamath River Advocates Set to Rally in Sacramento Tuesday
- ‘Fish Need Water! Let the River Flow!’: Tribal Members Protest in Sacramento (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
- Sign of the Times: Blue-Green Algae Detected in the Trinity
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