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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Reclamation releases new <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place> flow schedule</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>News
release</span></font></b></strong></st1:City><strong><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></span></font></b></strong></st1:place><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Bureau of
Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region - 4/29/04</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>A Ninth
Circuit Court ruling on April 23 significantly increased the volume available
to the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place> . The Court's ruling came
as a result of a request from the Hoopa Valley Tribe. In December 2002, U.S.
District Court Judge Oliver Wanger limited the available volume of water to
453,000 acre-feet pending completion of a final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement/Report. The Ninth Circuit Court's ruling, in response to the
emergency motion, increased that volume to 647,000 acre-feet for this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The newly
revised 2004 flow schedule will be finalized by the Department of the Interior,
based on a recommendation made by the Trinity Management Council to achieve a
wide variety of physical and biological objectives. This schedule will not only
benefit smolt (juvenile salmon and steelhead) growth and survival in late
spring and early summer, but will also achieve substantial geomorphic benefits
by flushing large accumulations of fine sediment that have been deposited over
the past two years, move and redeposit gravel, and scour 1-2 year old riparian
vegetation that has re-encroached along the channel's edge, all of which will
improve habitat conditions throughout the system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Under the
newly approved flow schedule, current releases from Lewiston Dam to the <st1:place
w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place> will continue at 300 cubic feet per second
(cfs) through Tuesday, May 4, ramp up to 2,500 cfs by Thursday, May 6, and then
continue up to 6,000 cfs by Sunday, May 16. The schedule calls for these
releases to continue at 6,000 cfs from May 16 through Tuesday, May 25,
gradually ramping down to 2,000 cfs by June 18, and finally reaching the summer
base level of 450 cfs by July 22.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The new
flow release schedule is available online at Reclamation's Central Valley
Operations (CVO) web site at </span></font><a
href="outbind://28/www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo" title="outbind://28/www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo"><font
size=4 title="outbind://28/www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>Byron Leydecker<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>Chair, Friends of <st1:place
w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>Consultant, California
Trout, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on"><i><font
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color:#999999;font-style:italic'>PO Box</span></font></i></st1:Street><i><font
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color="#999999"><span style='color:#999999;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><i><font size=3
color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#999999;font-style:italic'>Mill Valley</span></font></i></st1:City><i><font
color="#999999"><span style='color:#999999;font-style:italic'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">94942-2327</st1:PostalCode></span></font></i></st1:place><i><font
color="#999999"><span style='color:#999999;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>415 383 4810 ph<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#999999" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>415 519 4810 ce<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#999999;font-style:italic'>415 383 9562 fx<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3366FF;font-style:italic'>bwl3@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><i><font size=3 color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3366FF;font-style:italic'>bleydecker@stanfordalumin.org
(secondary)<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3366FF;font-style:italic'>http://www.fotr.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></i></p>
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