pollution #4

Pollution being cracked down in the delta #4

Jamel Johnson
SOC 202-01
02/11/2011
Farming practices, and northern California sewage plants and other business operations could be forcibly overhauled by the feds. The U.S. EPA is studying the impacts of fertilizer use, pollution, and habit destruction. They are doing a study so that they can come up with new rules governing the waterways. This is from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Golden Gate. Also that water is supplied to 25 million people in California. The debates for the rules are scheduled for next year. And they realize that the delta is in a crisis. The problems vary from the waters to the animals. There is toxic blue - green alga, changes in salt levels, and salmon and smelt are on the edge of extinction. Some are already brain storming on how to help the fresh water conditions. Rosenfield says improving the fresh water flow conditions into the well help. He says it would dilute chemical concentrations if they are too high. Also it would help control the invasion of other animal too. Some feel that the real problem is being over looked. This is meeting the water quality standards. Some feel how the water flows in and out the delta is the main point, and it is being over looked at. Also that they looked at other problems individually instead of looking at how it effects the environment as a whole.
http://www.baycitizen.org/water/story/feds-could-crack-down-delta-pollution/