Environmental

Water Quality Board Urged to Provide More Water to Save Rare Sucker Fish

Santa Ana Sucker fish
Santa Ana Sucker, Catostomus santaanae, Paul Barrett, USFWS

SAN BERNARDINO, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Three conservation groups filed a request with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board last week to amend the permit of the Rapid Infiltration and Extraction (RIX) facility to require adequate water flows in the Santa Ana River for the federally protected Santa Ana suckerfish. Since 2014 intermittent RIX shutdowns have halted water releases, stranding and killing the threatened fish. Operated under a…

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