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<font size="+1">There are holes in each of these claims. <br>
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1. Re. the 100,000 af, the DEIS, page 2-50, says "The diversion
limitations would result in the availability of irrigation water
to be approximately 100,000 acre-feet <b><u>less than the current
demand</u></b> in the driest years to protect mainstem flows."
But this confuses demand with lawful diversions at present. In dry
years, the coho BiOp restricts diversion to well below demand. So
a fairer estimate of increased water for fish would be the
difference between the Appendix E-1 amount and the amount
permitted by the BiOp. Sadly, that number is negative, i.e., the
BIop reduces deliveries below the diversion limitation; so the
diversion limitation adds nothing for fish in such years. Zero
gain, not 100taf.<br>
<br>
2. The 30 taf will be purchases of water rights funded by federal
appropriations, if any. We don't need the KBRA for that voluntary
program, just the appropriations. Also, if those additional flows
into UKL are achieved, that also increases somewhat the diversion
limitation, reducing the net gain the the river.<br>
<br>
3. The Williamson Delta, Agency Lake and Barnes Ranch storage
areas--aren't some of these already built? Again, it's new federal
appropriations (or Nature Conservancy funding) that will expand
UKL storage, not the KBRA. And, as you note, these will simply
capture run-off that would otherwise go to the river. Reregulating
flow may help bridge drought years but there's surely a value in
letting the river run high and reshape and clean itself during wet
years, something that would be reduced by building greater storage
and capturing high flows. <br>
<br>
In short, I don't think your arithmetic works for fish. Or is this
one of those wishful "the rain follows the plow" theories (that
construction will increase precipitation)?<br>
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On 9/24/2011 9:25 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:FISH1IFR@aol.com">FISH1IFR@aol.com</a> wrote:
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<div>In a message dated 9/22/2011 10:32:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight
Time, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:t.schlosser@msaj.com">t.schlosser@msaj.com</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT:
5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:
transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">We should
all look carefully at the Klamath DEIS to see if it confirms
Glen's claim that KBRA provides "<font size="2"><big><font
color="#000000" face="Arial"><big><font face="Tahoma"><b>up
to 230,000</b> more acre-feet of water back into
the river for salmon recovery</font></big></font></big>
" I think you'll find that it says:<br>
<br>
"Water Diversion Limitations would be implemented during
dry years to increase flows for fisheries by reducing
Reclamation’s Klamath Project diversion upstream of <b>approximately
100,000 acre-feet</b>." e.g., page 3.8-20.</font></font></blockquote>
<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">Tom....
You have misunderstood me. The additional water
available to salmon use during the non-winter months
under the KBRA include <u>much more</u> than just that
"up to 100,000 acre-feet" from the Water Diversion
Limitations on the Klamath Project. To be more precise,
the KBRA provides for:</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">(1) </font> <font
size="2"><strong><u>Up to</u> 100,000 acre-feet</strong>
additional water, as compared to a baseline of actual
Project usage 1960-2000, from the Project through the
"Diversion Limitation." This would hit maximum in dry
years, when the fish need it most (but under past
Project practices, when irrigators got the most instead,
thus exacerbating every drought for fish), but in wet
years (when there is plenty of water) would be much less
water savings. This Project reduction, as you know, is
scaled so that the TOTAL MAXIMUM Project diversion
remains between 330,000 af and 385,000, the actual
Limitation based on annual rainfall. Assuring more
water for fish during any future drought is VERY
important as a major benefit from the KBRA. (KBRA Sec.
15.1)</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">(2)
Plus the addition to the total UKL water supply from
above-Project water users of a target of <strong>30,000
additional acre-feet</strong>, through voluntary water
right retirements and such measures... and this has to
be verifiable additional water, not "paper water" as you
claim (KBRA Sec 16.2.2 -- Off Project Water Use
Retirement Program).</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">(3)
Capturing, through the restoration of additional
wetlands (Willamson Delta, Agency Lake Ranch and Barnes
Ranch, and Wood River Projects), enough new storage
calculated to collectively produce <u>an additional
108,570 gross acre-feet of storage</u> next to Upper
Klamath Lake -- water that would ultimately be available
to flow into Upper Klamath Lake and then downriver,
since it has nowhere else to go. I round this down to
an <strong>additional 100,000 acre-feet of storage
capacity added to the system</strong>, as restored
wetlands (thus also a benefit to the wildlife refuges
and waterfowl). True, this is water that would
otherwise have flowed down in the winter floods for lack
of anywhere to store it, but under the KBRA it will
instead be shifted back to being available( by
being naturally stored) over the part of the year where
it is <em>most useful to augment spring, summer and
fall flows for salmon.</em> (See KBRA Sec. 18.2). I
would also note that if, for any reason, any of these
projects becomes unfeasible, something of equivalent
storage will be developed elsewhere in the upper basin
(KBRA Sec. 18.2.5 -- Alternatives).</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2"><strong>Added
together this means that 100,000 + 30,000 + <em>up to</em>
100,000 = up to 230,000 additional acre-feet of water
per year will be available for salmon in-stream as a
result full implementation of the KBRA.</strong> </font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">The
model that predicts this, by the way, is a much used
model that has been multiply peer reviewed,
validated, and is used in many other basins. And its
output results have been corroborated by a differently
construct and <u>independent</u> USGS model to within a
very few percent in all time steps.</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000"
face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="2">Since
you raised the crediblity of my numbers, the above
explanation seemed warranted. I generally try hard to
have my facts straight whenever I post to public, or
private, email forums, and owed you and the other
participants in this forum a thoughtful response. I do
not "shoot from the hip" as so many seem to do, in email
or otherwise.</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2"><font size="+1">
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<div><font family="SANSSERIF" ptsize="10" face="Arial"
lang="0" size="2">=============================================<br>
Glen H. Spain, NW Regional Director<br>
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
(PCFFA)<br>
PO Box 11170, Eugene, OR 97440-3370<br>
O:(541)689-2000 -- Fax:(541)689-2500<br>
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fish1ifr@aol.com">fish1ifr@aol.com</a><br>
Home Page: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pcffa.org/">www.pcffa.org</a> <br>
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