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EXECU AH SUMMARY pressing into the rceon fiom the frnge. Moxe MMOAS come to it for boating, fishing, hunt'sng, bird web.. i 9, even steeped 112 !stUt�� ca�z2 b 1x • r2otes windsutfing on its 700 miles of cbannels. Steeped Mi iv of the American heartland and of combining notes of the Americanheattland and of Holland, ��ai2dfi the Delta looks al�d feels theDelta looks and feels like no other. place in California lie 120 other'place 212 Call ©it1a. This is aland that peopleloveThis 1s ald that peopleXr�ve. Itis not doing so w"�e I It is not doing so well. The very shape of the modem Delta, is in danger. paimiing of peat uch ground Ike this always leads to oxidation, the inte.x:tuptlon by weather vagaries, levee failures, or pumping literal -vat skiing of soil, and thus to subsidence. Many Delta restrictions imposed is the desperate attempt to stem the islands now lie 15 feet or mote below seia.level and depend decline of fish. on aging dii=s to�prevent the water in adjacent channels from pouting in. lex river flows in winter orTheG ,spun%, pre U dieted results of clinnte cbange,�vili add to the pxessyse, and Coequal 1 . U agr a earthquake, sooner ol: later, iltshakc, fhexegonlsle SAIewairuship CounciL a paint can an a mister. Enc-toacl ing urbanization, me n and P an while, puts more .people and propeYty pm dangerous grannd. the Delta Afleryeats of' slow decline, the condition of the Delta's since the middle 1980s, California has beetxIoatsingforways watery ecosystem, as measured especially bytl ce population m secure �e natural and human values of the Delta wile of wild salmon and other native fishes, has gone critical. The n�aint g its place ltz the state's water plzunbiz g. These list of causes begltss, but domnot end, with all those water ° ha°e g y s d in hope and ended in impasse withdrawals, a kind of tag that leaves the system in a condi- Zn xerent years et�virot�t mer taSists turned to rile courts, using 3 tion of chronic aixn4it. ,me specific, peculiar manner Ia. the blunt tool of the federal Endangeted species Act to which. the last large gulps waterofat:e withdrawn adds to the force °t of water =ports at cettatn ttmes. .Tn teao- ecological cost The continual 3ntroduction of alien aquatic tion, water suppliers south of'the Delta have complained of species from at=ad the world is alteaing the web of life; <`regulatoxy dm*e " often at the expense of native and other valued species. JR 2009 the T.:e dature made its latest, most determined Pollution from the vast and busy watershed does its shme bid to find solutions, passing the Delta Deform Act and of barm, associated bills. Most and foxemost, it declared that State Today, all these who depend on or value the Delm are, its a policy toward the Delta must b�t�cefotth serve tzvo woad, afraid. -Delta residents face the possibility of floods "coequal goals": nom the east when the tivers flow strongly and of salinity a Pravtding a more reliable water supply for intrusion frow the west if they flow too feebly. Pishexn'ien, CzHwi1.27 and both commercial and recreational, fret about the future of Ptrotectx% Xesto g, and er&sadgg-tb.e salmon anal other species_Wa m suppliers that receive water Delta ecosystem, from the Delta find those supplies insecute, subject to r ES•3 ll�L€A °t,�Pd, 2fi'Is , PA- 1800071 — Previously Approved Findings 13