[env-trinity] FW: Trinity River Water

[Byron Leydecker]

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From: Byron Leydecker [mailto:bwl3 at comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:18 AM
To: Douglas Schleusner; Edward Solbos; Daryl Peterson; Troy Fletcher; Tim
Ramirez; Ralph Modine; Mike Ryan; Mike Orcutt; Mary Ellen Mueller; Kirk
Rodgers; Irma Lagomarsino; Bill Brock; Russell Smith; Bill Mendenhall; Steve
Turek; Tom Stokely; Danny Jordan; George Kautsky; Dave Hillemeier; Sharon
Heywood; Zeke Grader; William Huber; Tom Weseloh; Tim Colvin; Serge Birk;
Richard Lorenz; Pat Frost; Kevin Lewis; Jimmy Smith; Jim Spear; Jim Feider;
Jeff Bryant; Elizabeth Soderstrom; Edgar Duggan; David Steinhauser; Dan
Haycox; Bwl3 at Comcast. Net; Bernice Sullivan; Arnold Whitridge
Subject: Trinity River Water
Importance: High


Since the Bureau recently increased releases to 2,000 cfs for dam safety
reasons into Trinity River, it apparently has used the lowest release point
from the dam.  This has resulted in sediment from behind the dam choking the
river.

Unless clean water flows of up to 6,000 cfs or whatever are released later
this year, this sediment will remain stuck in the upper river for the coming
year, or until higher clean water releases are provided.

In the meantime, is it not possible to change the release point from the dam
to a height at which sediment will not pour into the river?

This current release arrangement seriously undercuts efforts to restore
sediment reductions in the river, if not the Restoration Program itself.

I ask that those in the Bureau in a position to do so make every effort to
change the current release method to eliminate these highly damaging
sediment introductions into the river.

Byron Leydecker
Chairman, Friends of Trinity River
Consultant, California Trout, Inc,
PO Box 2327
Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327
415 383 4810 ph
415 519 4810 cell
415 383 9562 fx
bwl3 at comcast.net
bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)
http://www.fotr.org
http://www.caltrout.org

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