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THE GOVERNOR'S DROUGHT ADVISORY PANEL, which includes water officials, lawmakers and environmentalists, is scheduled to release its strategy for reducing the impacts of critical water shortages during the next dry period in December. DWR's Jeanine Jones says recommendations are likely to focus on the establishment of a water purchasing program, similar to the state water banks that operated during the last two droughts. The big question is how such a program would be coordinated with other water purchasing programs, such as the one established by CALFED to provide water for ecosystem restoration. Contact: www.dwr.water.ca.gov/DroughtPanel.

THE OWNERS OF IRON MOUNTAIN MINE will pay for its cleanup under an agreement with the state and federal governments announced in October. Acid discharges from the mine have long damaged miles of creeks and killed fish in the Sacramento River.The agreement provides permanent funding for clean-up and remediation activities to prevent the mine from further polluting the river, and will result in removal of approximately 95 percent of the metals that would otherwise flow into the river. It ends nearly nine years of litigation and three years of settlement negotiations.

LOCAL ESTUARY RESTORATION PROJECTS will benefit under the national Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of 2000, passed by Congress in late October. The bill establishes a program to leverage federal, state and private funding to support restoration projects and will provide up to $880 million in federal funds over the next five years to restore one million new acres of estuaries.

THE SACRAMENTO SUCKER AND TULE PERCH are among the native resident fish species still commonly found in streams of the Sacramento River Basin, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey report (see Now in Print). The report attributes the abundance of native resident fish species in the basin at least partially to water management activities that favor the delivery of water through natural streams rather than diversions into canal systems. Native fish species are least often found in waters affected by agricultural drainage, where introduced species such as bass, sunfish and catfish tend to dominate--as they do in the streams of the San Joaquin River Basin.

HIGH-SPEED WATER TRANSIT on S.F Bay got a boost from Governor Davis recently when he signed legislation appropriating $12 million for the Bay Water Transit Authority. The appropriation will allow the Authority to initiate the environmental planning, technical analysis and public outreach that ferry advocates hope will lead to dramatically expanded ferry service. The Authority was created in 1999 with a mandate to "design, build and operate" a regional ferry system to alleviate Bay Area traffic woes.

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