Pumps to Be Shut Down to Save Salmon
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REDDING — A Shasta County Superior Court judge Thursday ordered the shutdown of four irrigation pumps that state biologists said are killing endangered winter-run salmon. The pumps deliver irrigation water from the Sacramento River to about 270 customers in the 2,500-acre Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District south of Redding. Fish and Game Department biologists said juvenile winter-run Chinook were being sucked through the pumps, where they were injured or killed or sent to die in farmers’ fields.
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