DELTA CORRIDORS PLAN

1. All of the San Joaquin River water, salt, phytoplankton and migrating juvenile fish would bypass the CVP and SWP export pumps and would instead move down Old River to Franks Tract and to the San Francisco Estuary. This would eliminate the recycle of SJR salt back to the Delta Mendota Canal and would reduce the average salinity of the exports by more than 25%. This would eliminate any salvage or loss of SJR migrating juvenile fish (e.g., Chinook, steelhead, splittail). The high chlorophyll concentrations in the SJR during the summer months would no longer be exported but would supplement the food-web in Old River, Franks Tract and in Suisun Bay... 2. Migrating juvenile Sacramento River fish (e.g., Chinook, steelhead, American shad, splittail) would be protected by fish screen facilities at the Delta Cross Channel and at Georgiana Slough near Walnut Grove. The DCC would be divided with a wall and the north gate would be opened to provide a connection to the Mokelumne River and the..

Also known as: DC Plan, Delta Corridors