[env-trinity] Eureka Times Standard Trinity Draft SEIS/R

Mon May 3 09:24:39 PDT 2004

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Analysis backs 2000 Trinity restoration plan 

By John Driscoll The Times-Standard 

Power interests and endangered fish in the Sacramento River shouldn't feel
significant effects from boosting flows to the Trinity River, according to a
court-ordered federal draft environmental document. 

The draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement lists an alternative
essentially unchanged from one approved in 2000 by former U.S. Interior
Secretary Bruce Babbitt. 

It also says that actions being considered by the state and federal
government could lessen the effects of crimping water exports from the
Trinity River to the Sacramento River and Central Valley farms. 

Increased water storage, land fallowing, purchasing water from willing
sellers and conserving water all might offset the decreased diversion, the
document reads. 

The analysis was ordered by Fresno U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger,
overseeing a case by Central Valley irrigator Westlands Water District and
power interests who claim the original analysis didn't look deeply enough
into the effects of increasing flows to the Trinity River. 

Whether the U.S. Interior Department supports the preferred option is yet to
be seen. The Hoopa Valley Tribe has to concur with the interior secretary's
decision, but could sue if the option is not federally approved. 

Shortly after the Trinity River diversion project was completed in the
1960s, up to 90 percent of its flow above Lewiston Dam was sent to the
Sacramento River. Salmon and steelhead runs suffered, and flows have been
increased some since then. 

The Trinity River restoration plan aims to improve river conditions for fish
and calls for just under 50 percent of the river's flows to be allowed down
the river. 

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could throw out the entirety of Wanger's
ruling and with it the draft environmental document. 

Byron Leydecker of California Trout called the draft document a positive
step. But he cautioned that legal challenges are likely, and that the river
could see its flows crimped until the issue is resolved by legislation or
the courts. 

Westlands had no comment on the document. 

In the meantime, the 9th Circuit has ordered more water to be sent down the
river this year. A schedule for water releases has been set. 

Flows will begin ramping up beginning May 4 to 2,500 cubic feet per second
by May 6. They will climb to 6,000 cfs by May 16 and held there until May
25. Flows will gradually scale back to 2,000 cfs by June 18 and reach summer
flows of 450 cfs by July 22. 

The document can be found at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ncao/ Click on
projects/activities/documents, then on Trinity River, then on restoration. 

Comments must be sent by June 22, 2004, to Russell Smith, Bureau of
Reclamation, P.O. Box 723, Shasta, CA 96087, by fax at 530-275-2441, or via
e-mail to: rpsmith at mp.usb r.gov. 

Byron Leydecker

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 519 4810 ce

415  383 9562 fx

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