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STEELHEAD PROTECTIONS - The National Marine Fisheries Service will propose new rules to protect steelhead by December 15 under a legal settlement with a coalition of environmentalists. Although the species has been listed as threatened since March 1998, the agency has not yet issued regulations to protect it. Meanwhile, the agency is seeking experts to serve on a new science review panel that will guide recovery planning for all 26 protected populations of salmon and steelhead in Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho, as well as two technical review teams. The Federal Register notice describing the solicitation is on line at www.nwr.noaa.gov.

WATER BOND - The Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection and Flood Protection Act of 1999 - the largest general obligation water bond ever - will appear on the March 2000 ballot. If approved by voters, the measure will provide $1.97 billion for a variety of flood control, watershed protection, pollution control and water conservation programs, as well as water recycling, groundwater storage and Bay-Delta improvements.  

PETALUMA PESTICIDES - Two insecticides turned up in the upper Petaluma River watershed at eight spots monitored by Bruce Abelli-Amen of Baseline Environmental Consulting in 1998 (with the help of a $10,000 Rose Foundation grant). In summer, he found hardly a trace of diazinon and chlorpyrifos, but during the winter almost half of the samples contained levels potentially toxic to microorganisms in the water. In one sampling the diazinon concentration reached 1,368 parts per trillion (ppt), almost ten times the level considered toxic. Another found nearly 80 ppt of chlorpyrifos in one tributary - the substance is considered toxic at 30 ppt or above. Abelli-Amen found the highest levels of the insecticides in creeks that flow through residential and commercial neighborhoods and reasons that if people were better educated about their proper use (and less toxic alternatives) the river's overall health could be improved. Contact: (707)762-5233

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