District Ordered to Release Water
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the release of emergency water to replenish the Trinity River in Northern California.
The ruling is part of a four-year case by the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the U.S. Department of the Interior, which argued that an act of Congress in 1950 to redirect the river’s water to irrigate the Central Valley had depleted the area of fish.
An order from the Department of the Interior in 2000 to restore the river was blocked by the Westlands Water District and the Northern California Power Agency, throwing both sides into litigation.
The court’s ruling last Friday is temporary.
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