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Reservoirs At.
Drought Levels;
Emergency Hearing Set
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Storage In three large
water supply reservoirs at the
headwaters of the Delaware
River has dropped from drought
warning to drought levels, auto
matically triggering additional
reductions in the amount of
water released from the reser
voirs into the river and the
amount diverted out of the Dela
ware River Basin to New York
City and New Jersey.
The reductions are required
under the Delaware River Basin
Commission’s (DRBCs) drought
operating plan which is based on
storage levels in the three reser
voirs - Cannonsville, Pepacton,
and Neversink. The impound
ments are located in New York
State’s Catskill Mountains region
and owned by New York City.
A public hearing on whether to
declare a drought emergency and
implement additional water con
servation measures is scheduled
Dec. 18 at the commission’s of
fices in West Trenton, N.J.
As of Dec. 3, combined storage
in the three reservoirs was 66 bil
lion gallons, over 100 billion gal
lons below normal, and 24 per
cent of capacity.
Under the commission’s
drought operating plan, which
has been implemented in stages
over the past month, the allow
able water supply diversions to
New York City have been low
ered from a normal of 800 to 520
million gallons per day (mgd),
alid diversions to northern New
Jersey through the Delaware and
Raritan Canal have been lowered
from the normal of 100 to 65
mgd. In addition, minimum flow
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have been lowered fropi 1,750 to
1,350 cubic feet per second (cfs)
at Montague, N.J., and from
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N.J.
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automatically took effect on Nov.
4 when falling reservoir storage
triggered a drought warning.
“These water-conserving ac
tions in place now save up to 540
million gallons per day of storage
in the New York City reservoirs,”
noted Carol R. Collier, the
DRBC’s executive director.
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rely on the waters of the Dela
ware River Basin. New York
City, which lies outside the wa
tershed, gets roughly half its
water from its Upper Delaware
reservoirs.
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N.J., and constructed by a con
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inches below normal for the year
in the upper basin. The last five
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central portion of the watershed,
particularly in the Philadelphia
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Jersey, and in extreme northern
Delaware. Southern Delaware
has not been as hard hit by the
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The Supreme Court’s refusal
to hear the case is the second
time the high court has refused to
hear Goetz’s appeal from a 1998
determination by the U.S. Court
of Appeals that found the beef
checkoff program to be constitu
tional. Further, it lets stand the
appellate court’s April 2001 rul
ing that Goetz must pay past-due
DES MOINES, lowa Pork
producers, through their checkoff
investments, recently published a
flier for veterinarians, packers,
and other allied industry to place
in checks to their producer cus
tomers.
This checkoff-funded educa
tional information focuses on the
increased consequences of drug
residues.
“The consequences of finding
drug residues in pork products
have changed dramatically. Pork
producers should work with their
veterinarians to avoid residue vi
olations,” said Jill Appell, chair
of the Pork Safety Committee.
The pork producer from Alto
na. 111., said, “The new checkoff
funded educational information
highlights new consequences the
USDA is imposing on repeat resi
due violators, defines extra-label
drug use, and gives steps for pro-
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Supreme Court Denies Request
On Beef Checkoff Challenge
DENVER, Colo. Recently,
the U.S. Supreme Court denied
without comment Kansas cattle
man and order buyer Jerry
Goetz’s request for appeal in his
claim that he should not have to
pay the sl-per-head beef check
off.
Goetz alleges that the beef
checkoff program is unconstitu
tional.
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and penalties for his intentional
noncompliance with the beef
checkoff law.
“The decision not to hear the
appeal is appropriate and good
news for beef producers who
have invested in the beef checkoff
program and die successful ‘Beef.
It’s What’s For Dinner.’ promo
tion campaign,” said Lynn Corn
well, Montana cattle producer
and president of the National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association. “It
seems to send a clear message to
those who are trying to take
away the industry’s only self-help
promotion and marketing pro
gram. We believe the checkoff is
constitutional.”
Goetz filed his latest request
ducers to follow to avoid the con
sequences of drug residues. The
flier emphasizes the importance
of a strong veterinarian-client-pa
tient relationship in making med
ication decisions.”
New consequences of residue
violations include:
• USDA will publish the
names and addresses of repeat
residue violators on a USDA
Website. (Repeat violators are
defined as producers having
more than one residue violation
in a 12-month period.)
• Repeat violators will remain
on the Website list for one year.
• Packers have an increased
interest in residue avoidance by
producers.
• Producers listed on this web
site may experience difficulty in
finding markets and packers will
ing to accept their animals and
increased scrutiny when animals
are marketed.
The flier explains that pork
producers who are medicating
pigs need to review their residue
avoidance practices with a veteri
narian. That’s a long-standing
practice for pork producers and
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for appeal with the Supreme
Court on Aug. 9, 2001, following
previous rejections by the federal
District Court in Kansas, the
10th Circuit, and the Supreme
Court in 1999.
Goetz argued that the April
2001 ruling against him by the
10th Circuit Appeals Court
should be vacated and reconsid
ered in light of the Supreme
Court’s June 2001 ruling in U.S.
vs. United Foods, Inc. involving
the Mushroom Promotion Act.
The United Foods case consid
ered the constitutionality of ad
vertising conducted through the
mushroom industry’s checkoff
program, which is written and
administered differently than the
beef checkoff program.
is the basis for their Pork Quality
Assurance (PQA) education pro
gram that started in 1989.
“More than a decade ago, pork
producers started the Pork Quali
ty Assurance (PQA) program.
That educational program fo
cuses on the 10 Good Production
Practices, which include and
tracking all treated animals and
using drug residue tests when ap
propriate,” Appell said. “Another
good production practice is to use
a valid veterinarian-client-patient
relationship as the basis for med
ication decision-making.”
To avoid drug residues in pork
products, producers should use
drugs according to label direc
tions, observe the withdrawal
time, observe the extended with
drawal times provided by a veter
inarian when using products in
an extra-label manner, identify
and track treated animals, and
maintain medication and treat
ment records.
For more information on this
and other checkoff-funded pro
grams, check the Internet at
www.porkboard.org or call (515)
223-2600.
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