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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Make your own assessment. Use of Trinity water for this
purpose was opposed emphatically following the initial Bureau and Fish &
Wildlife thrust a few months ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Feds buying Trinity water for Klamath again</span></font></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> <br>
By <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John Driscoll</st1:PersonName> <br>
The Times-Standard Tuesday, June 28, 2005 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The federal government is spending $618,000 to buy Trinity
River water as an insurance policy against a fish kill on the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath
River</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Bureau of Reclamation expects to sign an agreement soon with a slate of contractors
it identified as the Sacramento River Exchange Group. It would buy 20,000 acre
feet -- 6.5 billion gallons -- for about $30 an acre foot. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>"We've isolated a hunk of water and we've got a
handshake," said bureau spokesman Jeff McCracken. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>A subcommittee of the Trinity Management Council will meet
this week to determine what would trigger the release this fall. The size of
the salmon run, the flows in the lower river, and the incidence of disease will
all be considered. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>In 2002, up to 68,000 adult chinook salmon died of
stress-related diseases in the lower river. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Fish and Wildlife Service
found low, warm water during a relatively large run was at the heart of the
devastating fish kill. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>This year on the Klamath is considered a below-average year,
and there is concern that low flows scheduled in August and September could
endanger the salmon again. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The Trinity water can't be carried over until next year if it
isn't needed, McCracken said, creating a use-it-or-lose-it situation. If it
isn't used, the bureau would try to sell it to irrigators in the <st1:place
w:st="on">Central Valley</st1:place> Project, but probably at a loss, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
Department of the Interior has repeatedly rejected requests to allow water promised
to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> to be used for the same purpose.
The county was pledged 50,000 acre feet before the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place>'s dams and diversion were constructed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>"Given the fact that Humboldt County is willing to
donate its water it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to pay $600,000 for
something the bureau could get for free," said <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Tom
Stokely</st1:PersonName>, a senior planner for neighboring Trinity County. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The bureau has also spent millions in recent years -- $7
million this year -- on a program to buy water from farmers in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Upper</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and send it downstream
during the spring for young salmon. Prior to 2002, as many as 200,000 juvenile
salmon died of diseases in the river. This year, 100,000 acre feet is being
sent <br>
down the Klamath as part of the water bank. <br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><b><i><font size=3 color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:
bold'>Byron Leydecker</span></font></i></b></em></st1:PersonName><em><b><i><font
color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray;font-weight:bold'>, </span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Chair, Friends of <st1:place
w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place></span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Consultant, California
Trout, Inc.</span></font></i></b></em><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Mill Valley</span></font></i></b></em></st1:City><em><b><i><font
color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray;font-weight:bold'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">94942-2327</st1:PostalCode></span></font></i></b></em></st1:place><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>415 383 4810 ph</span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>415 383 9562 fx</span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold'><a
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style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold'><a
href="mailto:bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org">bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</a><u>
</u></span></font><font color=gray><span style='color:gray'>(secondary)</span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a href="http://www.fotr.org">http://www.fotr.org</a></span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://caltrout.org">http://caltrout.org</a></span></font></i></b></em><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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