[env-trinity] Trinity Flows

[Byron]

>From Douglas Schleusner:  

 

This email summarizes the action taken by the Trinity Management Council
during its conference call yesterday, August 2.  The TMC voted to recommend
to Reclamation and the Fish and Wildlife Service that the currently
available 36,300 AF be used for a proactive release from Lewiston Dam
starting Aug 23 to benefit fall run fish entering the lower Klamath river.
Attached is the recommended flow schedule (and graph). 

 

The flow schedule is very similar to what occurred last year. To minimize
public safety risks, the ramp up from 450 to 1,650 cfs would begin on Sunday
evening 8/22 and reach 1,650 cfs by early morning on 8/23. The attached flow
schedule also includes a 60 cfs every other day to (as opposed to the
constant 30 cfs per day ramp down rate used in

2003) for easier operations.

 

Additionally, the TMC recommended that Reclamation seek an additional 13,700
AF (for a total of 50,000 AF) to provide an emergency reserve in case
disease monitoring indicates additional action is needed.  

 

Byron Leydecker

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 519 4810 ce

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

 <mailto:bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org> bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org
(secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

 

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