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<h1><span style='color:black'>Testing waters for salmon in San Joaquin River<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=byline><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'><a
href="mailto:pfimrite@sfchronicle.com">Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date><b><span style='color:black'>Sunday, February 7, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Water has begun flowing down 64 barren miles of
the San Joaquin River in what is being touted as California's most ambitious
effort to bring back long-lost native salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><b><span style='color:black'>The floodgates of the colossal Friant Dam
outside Fresno were opened last week so researchers can study how the water
flows down California's second longest river. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The releases, which will continue until Dec. 1,
will accelerate this spring until enough water is flowing down the parched
riverbed to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in less than a minute. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>It is all part of a historic agreement reached
after two decades of legal wrangling over efforts to bring back the salmon that
were wiped out a half-century ago when the 319-foot dam was built.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"The resumption of restoration flow
releases down the San Joaquin River, even at a fraction of its once mighty
flows, is a monumental event," blogged Monty Schmitt, a senior scientist
with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is a party to the agreement
along with the Friant Water Users Authority and the federal government. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"These flows and the restoration effort
are an example of how farmers, fishermen, environmentalists, and state and
federal agencies can work together to implement real solutions to California's
conflicts over water resources," Schmitt wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The Friant Dam was built in the 1940s so that 1
million acres of farmland could be irrigated. It plugged the river gorge and
held back nearly the entire flow of water, causing 64 miles of the river to
completely dry up. The native chinook - once so plentiful that farmers used to
scoop them out of the river to use as hog feed - disappeared by the early
1950s. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Environmentalists have characterized the
draining of the San Joaquin as one of the most egregious examples anywhere of
habitat destruction to quench civilization's thirst for water. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The battle to restore the river began in 1988
when the defense council and other environmental groups sued the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation and other federal agencies to prevent renewal of long-term water
contracts with Friant-area irrigation districts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The releases into the river mark the second
time in more than 60 years that water has flowed between the banks of the
entire San Joaquin. Smaller pulses of water were released last October and
November. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Over the next few months, Schmitt said, water
temperatures, velocity, channel depth and bank stability will be studied.
Problem areas will be fixed in preparation for 2012, when the first salmon are
expected to be reintroduced. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Year-round flows are expected to begin over the
entire 150 miles between the dam and its confluence with the Merced River in
2014. Even when completed, Schmitt said, only about 18 percent of the historic
flow of the river will be restored. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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