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• Feds search for best way to steer Merced River salmon

  Feds search for best way to steer Merced River salmon

  How could self-respecting salmon miss the turn from the murky San Joaquin River into the clear waters of their home Merced River? For years, a fish barrier has steered them. But that barrier soon will be removed as part of the restoration of the San Joaquin and its salmon runs. (Video)

• Dry season threatens farmers, return of salmon to San Joaquin River

  Dry season threatens farmers, return of salmon to San Joaquin River

  Even though the wetter half of California's winter is still ahead, it's hard to ignore the historic dry spell taking shape. The statewide snowpack is 15% of average for early January. This winter is mirroring the terrible 1976-1977 season -- the driest time on record.

• There goes the water

  There goes the water

  Before ranting about no water being available, does anyone ever look at the bottom righthand portion of The Bee's Weather page? There you will see exactly where all of our Valley water goes -- diverted right down the Friant-Kern Canal to Los Angeles.

  For example, on Monday, it was reported that from Millerton Lake, the Friant-Kern Canal received seven times the amount of water as the San Joaquin River. This is an ongoing plight.

  Do any politicians really care about our local water being diverted to Los Angeles? It appears not.

• This is where water goes

  This is where water goes

  Don Drilling's Jan. 12 letter regarding where Friant-Kern Canal water is delivered is incorrect and misleading.

  The Central Valley Project's Friant Division was developed more than 60 years ago to bring water to the Valley's east side. It necessarily and legally diverts water from the San Joaquin River, supporting billions of dollars of agricultural activity. This water is delivered to water districts and communities within portions of Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties with a replacement supply delivered from Northern California to the river's historic water rights holders, west side Exchange Contractors.

  This arrangement became the linchpin of CVP viability. Most Friant contractors have paid their respective CVP construction cost shares.

• Dam near Dos Palos is key to restoring salmon run

  Dam near Dos Palos is key to restoring salmon run

  The fish-friendly makeover of the San Joaquin River is expected to start with a $35 million renovation at Sack Dam near Dos Palos in 2013.

  That will be too late to meet a 2012 deadline for reviving chinook salmon runs in the river. It will be years before other similar projects will turn the river into a thoroughfare for salmon, as it was six decades ago.

  But even without fixing the dam, federal officials may still return long-dead salmon runs to the river next year. They could just capture and haul the fish around dams.