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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">I said this and more at a meeting in Weaverville last night.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Somebody (not me, amazingly enough) made copies of the Draft Phase 1 review by the Science Advisory Board and left them on the table for people to obtain, so I guess the cat is out of the bag on that report...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;
"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt">There were also copies of a letter from the California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead regarding this issue sitting on the table, so I've attached a copy of that document for your information. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><div> </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>tstokely@att.net<br>http://www.c-win.org</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:16.0pt">My name is Tom Stokely.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I work for the California Water Impact
Network.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The environmental
documentation for these projects is inadequate.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Preparation of an EIS/EIR is required for the following reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The environmental documents
do not include an alternative that would decrease fine sediment reduction in
watersheds to improve mainstem and tributary habitat as identified in the
Trinity ROD.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Clearly such an alternative
is warranted since it too would increase juvenile salmonid habitat- a primary
TRRP goal and it is part of the ROD.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Upslope watershed restoration would also keep the sediment on tributary
slopes from moving into the mainstem Trinity River where they can cause
flooding and impact fish habitat, meeting project purpose and need.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The purpose and need would
clearly allow this alternative to be evaluated but it is not.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Master EIR previously prepared also lacks
an alternative that would accelerate underfunded watershed restoration activities
authorized through the Trinity ROD.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">You may not recall but when
the ROD was being litigated a decade ago, the federal district court judge
issued an injunction based on his view that inadequate attention was being paid
to alternatives that would restore tributaries, including the South Fork as a
means of meeting fishery restoration goals.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The Ninth Circuit later overturned that decision based on the fact that
the Trinity ROD included a watershed restoration component.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, since that watershed restoration
component is not being carried out to the extent envisioned in the Trinity ROD,
it is again a viable legal argument against these projects.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A reasonable range of alternatives has not
been provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">There are also significant
unmitigated impacts from past projects and presumably future projects such as: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">boat launching
access has been reduced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">favorite holes
have filled in with gravel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">favorite adult
steelhead holding areas such as upstream of the DC bridge no longer exist <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Dave Wellock’s agricultural
water system has been damaged w/o compensation while residential users have
been compensated, why the difference?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Landowners have
lost river banks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Summer water
Turbidity has been increased in violation of the Water Quality Control Plan for
the North Coast Region<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Noise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Truck traffic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And now a very
significant unmitigated impact brought forward at last week’s TAMWG meeting by
the Trinity County Weed Management Area- Noxious weed expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Vague mitigation measures for this impact in
the Master EIR have not been implemented to prevent the spread of star thistle
and other species.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Navigational
impacts on the river from the side channels- drift boats must be dragged over
gravel bars at low flows, sometimes with salmon redds in them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Information from the Science
Advisory Board’s Phase 1 review should also be made available to the public in
this environmental document for informed decision and an educated public.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, only TAMWG members and agency staff
have received the draft report to date.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That is not right.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The public
should see it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">At this point, the benefits
of the projects are questionable at best.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The TRRP’s Science Advisory Board in the top secret draft Phase 1 report
made the following observations that I will report to you on:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The initial
rehabilitation projects produced little to no immediate geomorphic
response.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">ROD flows are
capable of eroding riparian berms and may not require mechanical intervention
as originally thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">In most cases the
increases in juvenile rearing habitat were not statistically significant in
term of absolute changes in habitat area<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">System scale
monitoring shows that juvenile rearing habitat availability at base flow has
not changed significantly over the three year sampling period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Most of the
available Juvenile habitat is located in the Lewiston reach which for unknown
reasons exhibited a decline in mean habitat availability during the three year
sampling period<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Juvenile salmonid
rearing habitat availability has increased since 2001 but the rate of increase
is slow (1.2% -1.6% per year at base flows).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The goal is a minimum of a 400% increase in juvenile salmonid rearing
habitat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The program is
implementing the ROD, constructing habitat and monitoring physical and
biological response relative to objectives but integration of these efforts is
weak, particularly with regard to the program primary objective of fish
production.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">We also note that
formal scientific hypothesis testing is frequently lacking in Program
actitivites.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>…the program requires
stronger use of hypothesis testing for justifying study plans, making
defensible decisions and conveying results to peers and the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">These projects are part of
the Trinity River Record of Decision (Trinity ROD), but there has been a lot of
deviation from the Trinity ROD and in some cases, the ROD has been wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Could it also be wrong about the need and
projected effectiveness for creation of juvenile salmonid habitat for these
restoration projects?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The ROD only
called for 3 side channels but many more have been built.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Engineered log
jams were not envisioned in the Trinity ROD, nor was boulder placement.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Neither of those were evaluated in the Master
EIR either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The amount of
gravel estimated to be needed was much larger than is now acknowledged.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is a report by Dave Gaeman that admits
that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The bank feathers
are not producing the desired amount of juvenile salmonid rearing habitat, at
least without higher flows to reshape them but so far higher flows have not
substantially reshaped the projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Flows are doing
more natural bank erosion than previously envisioned.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Bulldozing the river’s edge may not be
necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">High Peak flows
for 5 days are not efficient at moving sediment. Most of the sediment moves in
the first day or 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The Trinity River Mainstem
Fishery Restoration EIS and subsequent Master EIR do not adequately describe or
evaluate impacts from the proposed projects.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>There are significant unmitigated impacts and minimal benefits
demonstrated so far.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A full EIS/EIR is
required.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">I’ve been a long time
supporter of this program but my confidence is really shaken now. I was always
willing to support the mainstem projects as long as it resulted in something
positive.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But now I can’t say that
benefits are worth the costs.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There have
been financial benefits to Weaverville from the payroll of the TRRP, but I’d
suspect that over half if not more of the total $15 million/year goes to out of
town payrolls, profit and overhead.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Local contractors feel left out.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Small watershed projects funded through local agencies provides
opportunities for local contractors that the mainstem projects do not but few
of them are being funded by TRRP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Small watershed restoration
projects are a known and proven means of improving juvenile salmonid habitat
survival but are not being considered as an alternative to the mainstem
projects, which have yet to be shown significant benefits but certainly
significant impacts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Watershed restoration
projects also keep sediment from the tributary slopes out of the mainstem, which
reduces flooding of property, another project purpose and need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Therefore, I’m asking you to
not approve these projects for 2014 and instead spend the money on watershed
restoration as envisioned in the Trinity ROD.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>We asked you to do the same thing 2 and 3 years ago, but you didn’t
listen.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Now we have additional
information that clearly shows that a break in construction of these projects
is appropriate, as suggested in the Implementation plan for the Trinity ROD,
page C-8, Appendix C.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">In interim period without construction activities may be necessary to
fully evaluate the effectiveness of project designs and the effect of the new
flow regime before beginning construction on the remaining sites</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The benefits of these
projects are not pronounced but the impacts are significant and real opportunities
exist in the watersheds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s time for a
change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">If you do wish to move ahead
with these projects, preparation of a full EIS and EIR is required. It is just
plain common sense and it’s required by law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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