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Judge asked to cut off extra water for salmon

By Jeff Barnard
Published August 26, 2014 9:18pm ET
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Judge asked to cut off extra water for salmon
FILE - In this June 25, 2013, file photo, workers move irrigation pipes from a field in the Westlands Water District near Five Points, Calif. Westlands and another water district have asked a federal judge to stop emergency releases of water from a Northern California reservoir to help salmon in the Klamath Basin survive the drought. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation started releasing the extra water Saturday, Aug. 23. 2014. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka,File) | Gosia Wozniacka

Agricultural water providers in the Central Valley of California asked a federal judge to stop releases of extra water intended to help salmon in the Klamath Basin survive the drought.

The petition for a temporary injunction was filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in Fresno by Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, which supply farmers.

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