Snowpack is up; water flow down
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Recent storms have boosted the snowpack above normal, but state water officials say that water exports to Southern California are being dramatically reduced to protect a tiny endangered fish.
A survey by Department of Water Resources crews found the state’s snowpack stood at 118% of normal for late February.
Meanwhile, the department cut water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to about one-quarter of normal because of court-ordered protections of the delta smelt -- a pinkie-sized fish that can fall prey to the massive pumps that feed aqueducts to Southern California.
-- Eric Bailey
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