Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council v. Kempthorne
District Court, E.D. California
Decided May 25, 2007No. 1:05-CV-01207 OWW (TAG)PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (DOC. 231/232)
OLIVER W. WANGER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case concerns the effect on a threatened species of fish, the Delta smelt (.Hypomesus transpacificus) 1 , of the coordinated operation of the federally-managed Central Valley Project (“CVP”) and the State of California’s State Water Project (“SWP”), among the world’s largest water diversion projects. Both projects divert large volumes of water from the California Bay (Sacramento-San Joaquin) Delta (“Delta”) and use the Delta to store water.
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