<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This editorial came out July 25. It is incorrect in saying that a lawsuit had been filed against the higher Trinity River flows. </div><div><br></div><div>Not yet anyway...</div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Tom Stokely<br>Water Policy Analyst/Media Contact<br>California Water Impact Network<br>V/FAX 530-926-9727<br>Cell 530-524-0315<br><a href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a><br>http://www.c-win.org</div></div><div><br></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/forum/editorials/article_db9b0330-f4d6-11e2-8ee2-0019bb2963f4.html">http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/forum/editorials/article_db9b0330-f4d6-11e2-8ee2-0019bb2963f4.html</a> </div><div><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size: 38.5px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; line-height: 40px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="font-size: 2.375rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0.5em !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(41, 82, 122); line-height: 1.125; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; ">Band-Aids help, but real water answers must be for the long </span></h1><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="paragraph-0" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">While water users struggle to solve long-term problems on the Klamath River, the “here and now” also has to be dealt with. It calls for “Band-Aid” solutions for what’s going on this summer, but it also drives home the importance of improving the ability to head off such short-term crises with long-term solutions.</div></span><span class="paragraph-1" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">Falling into the short-term category is the possibility of using water from the Trinity River to augment Klamath River flows.</div></span><div class="p402_hide service-members" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div id="in-story" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: right; clear: right; width: 300px; height: 280px; "></div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">The Trinity is a major tributary to the Klamath in California, 42 miles from the ocean. The Bureau of Reclamation wants to send extra Trinity water to the Klamath starting Aug. 15 to help what is expected to be a heavy run of salmon coming upriver to spawn.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">The move would benefit upper Basin irrigators, because it relieves some of the pressure on the Klamath, though it shifts the pressure elsewhere. Trinity River water is heavily used for a variety of purposes in California, including irrigation.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">Central Valley irrigators have filed a court challenge to the diversion for the Klamath.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">The Trinity also has other uses. It provides water for the Sacramento River — California’s largest — and adds to the Sacramento’s use for industry, ship navigation and power.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">The Trinity and other Northern California rivers are tied together by the California State Water Project, which stores and distributes water to 29 urban and agriculture water suppliers through a series of huge dams, tunnels and canals.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">A State of California website says 70 percent of the project’s water goes to urban users and 30 percent to agriculture.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">The California water project is a massively bigger and massively more expensive version of the Klamath Project, which is mostly in Oregon, and is connected with it.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">Those connections show how complex western water issues can be.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 1rem; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; ">Band-Aids help. They work for the moment, but the real answer is long-term solutions most likely in the shape of a modified and less costly Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and its allied agreements. What already happened this year with the Oregon adjudication process, which awarded senior water rights to the Klamath Tribes and the federal government’s Klamath Project, makes it imperative.</div></div></span></div><br><br><div>
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