Thread by @RestoretheDelta

The Central Valley Regional @CaWaterBoards has reported that a recent collection of water samples from cyanobacteria #AlgalBlooms along the #Stockton waterfront contain microcystins up to 220 times higher than the “danger” level.

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Our ED: “We are grateful that the @CaWaterBoards continue to make water quality testing a priority throughout the #SFBayDelta and along the #Stockton waterfront, the most populated urban area within the Delta with CA’s largest #environmentaljustice community percentage-wise. (1/

"We are, however, deeply disappointed in decisions being made by @CA_DWR because none of their plans for the Delta or #cawater management include solving the HABs issue for our region or for Northern California tribal communities suffering with the same water quality problem. (2/

" Fresh water flows are needed all year long to lessen HABs development. Adequate funding is also needed for rigorous enforcement to stop pollution discharge that contributes to the problem. (3/

“Restore the Delta’s numerous reports, comment letters, and commentary call for real solutions to this public health challenge– which will continue to worsen with warmer water and air temperatures from climate change. Yet, our work falls on deaf ears. (4/

“Instead, all that advances for the Delta are voluntary agreements designed to take more freshwater flows from the estuary, and of course the Delta tunnel, which will divert even more freshwater from Stockton and the South Delta. (5/

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Allowing for adequate freshwater flows, water recirculation plans, enforcement of pollution standards are all possible if @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom chooses to let these policies manifest. (6/

"He has the power and authority to help save the #SFBayDelta. He can just say the word. We continue to wait, but the Delta and its people can’t.” (7/7)