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Another peak later in the month will hit 10,900 cfs on April 29. A smaller peak will follow May 18.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Also, 3,500 cubic yards of gravel is to be added to the river at Lewiston.</p></div><div id="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region-article_instory_top" class="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region ydp5e5ead3ehidden-print"></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">In a meeting that started off very heated, Trinity River Restoration Program staff presented their plan for this year to the public Thursday night. A security officer announced her presence at the outset although she took no actions during the meeting.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Acting TRRP Executive Director Mike Dixon later told the Journal security was brought in for everyone’s safety due to a threat made against staff recently. That person didn’t attend the meeting.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Right off the bat, members of the audience protested the planned format of presentations followed by informal stations where individuals could talk to various staff members.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’ve talked one on one and you’ve not been straightforward,” one man said, adding that the program has hurt the area’s reputation as a fishing ground and hurt businesses.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Fishing Guide Liam Gogan also asked that the meeting be conducted as a public forum, which is basically what ended up happening.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">With the “wet” year designation, this year 701,000 acre-feet of water out of the 1.6 million acre-feet forecast to pass through Lewiston if it wasn’t for the dams is to be released to the river for fisheries restoration.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Hydrologist Todd Buxton noted that the fisheries restoration flows released under the 2000 Trinity River Record of Decision deal with approximately 46 percent of the river’s natural inflow blocked by the dams. Approximately 50 percent is diverted for Central Valley Project use, and the other 4 percent is released for reasons such as the Hoopa Valley Tribe boat ceremony, and to improve conditions in the lower Klamath River.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The flow schedule with its peaks and valleys is meant to serve many purposes, including cut away at unnaturally steep banks formed by low flows, form bars and other habitat that fish use, encourage riparian growth where it’s needed but not in the channel, and put bugs in the water for fish to eat.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’re trying to get function back into this river so it can sustain the fish,” said program Data Steward Eric Peterson.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">He noted that the restoration program doesn’t control dam operations and diversions, the Trinity River Hatchery, fish harvest, regulations, and conditions in the Klamath River and ocean where Trinity River fish also spend part of their life cycle.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The program has counts demonstrating that the number of naturally spawned fish migrating out to sea has significantly increased since the restoration flows began. However, that hasn’t always resulted in more returning adults.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The Trinity fish have to migrate through the Klamath River to get to the ocean and back. Conditions on the lower Klamath and the ocean have been too warm in recent years.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“With things changing on the Klamath we are very optimistic,” Peterson said, referring to the planned removal of dams on the Klamath.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The program has already started to add gravel at the Sawmill and lower Lowden sites in Lewiston. Totals are to be 2,100 cubic yards at the Sawmill site and 1,400 cubic yards at lower Lowden, for a total of 3,500 cubic yards.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The injected gravel is meant to replace that which is trapped by Trinity and Lewiston dams, to form bars and provide salmon spawning and rearing habitat.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Under the 2000 Trinity River Record of Decision, gravel addition in a wet year was to be 10,000 to 18,000 cubic yards. However, the Record of Decision allowed for change on this as more information was gathered. Now the amount is determined using several computations, including the natural gravel transport rates at Douglas City which is below several tributaries.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Tracking transponders in some of the rocks are used to monitor the progress.</p></div><div id="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region ydp5e5ead3ehidden-print"></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The fishing guide, Gogan, was pleased that the gravel augmentations have been reduced. He’s expressed concerns that the additions of gravel cause unhealthy water temperatures for the fish.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Program staff were asked if any of the allotted flow in this wet year can be banked for drier years. The response was there are some scientists who would like to see that, but it’s not allowed.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The program also wasn’t able to release additional water earlier in the year to save salmon egg nests, redds, in the upper river that were covered with thick mud washed down from the Carr fire area during storms.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“This is something we looked at in detail,” Dixon said, and legal counsel said a new environmental impact statement would be needed to release more water before mid-April.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Gogan said more of the program’s budget needs to be put into watershed restoration. Currently, that figure is $500,000. This year’s restoration program budget is approximately $14 million, dropping to $12 million next fiscal year.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“The largest part of this river where wild fish can be restored is in the watershed, the creeks of the Trinity River,” Gogan said.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“I think we all agree it would be really valuable to do more watershed restoration,” Peterson said.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Peterson said the bulk of the natural chinook salmon spawning does occur in the mainstem Trinity River whereas coho spawn primarily in the tributaries.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Environmental scientist Brandt Gutermuth noted that the original environmental impact statement for the restoration program targeted mainstem restoration.</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We have an obligation,” he said. “The water users pay and the mainstem is the priority.”</p></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3esubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">It was suggested during the meeting that persons interested in a new environmental impact statement call their Congress members.</p></div><div id="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region-article_instory_bottom" class="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region ydp5e5ead3ehidden-print"></div><div id="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region-article_bottom_content" class="ydp5e5ead3etncms-region ydp5e5ead3ehidden-print"></div></div><div class="ydp5e5ead3eshare-container ydp5e5ead3econtent-below" data-subscription-required-remove="" style="margin: 20px 0px;"><ul class="ydp5e5ead3esocial-share-links ydp5e5ead3ehidden-print ydp5e5ead3elist-inline ydp5e5ead3eicon" style="margin: 0px; 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