Judge orders water pumping limits lifted

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Judge orders water pumping limits lifted


FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge says pumping limits intended to protect native salmon can be lifted for two weeks in order to boost irrigation supplies for California's drought-addled farmers.

Districts representing some of the country's largest farms asked for a temporary restraining order that would suspend the limits in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta through mid-June. The pumping restrictions part of federal biologists' plan aimed at safeguarding winter-run Chinook salmon as they breed and swim out to the Pacific Ocean.

Despite the restrictions, several native fish populations are still crashing. Farms as well as fisheries have suffered under the persistent drought, which has left thousands jobless.

U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger said Friday afternoon the limits could be lifted for two weeks.

©2010 Associated Press.


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