[env-trinity] TMC Votes Down Fall Flows

[Byron]

Trinity Management Council action today on fall flows.  The vote was 7-1
against fall flows.

 

Recommendation: In response to letters from the Bureau of Reclamation and
Fish and Wildlife Service, dated April 11 and April 13, 2005, based upon
present knowledge and data available on 14 April 2005, the TMC does not
recommend a fall, 2005, pulse flow.

 

Diverting ROD flows from their planned purposes in order to provide water
for a fall pulse flow will result in not fully meeting ROD objectives.
Therefore, the TMC does not support use of ROD water for fall, 2005, flow
releases.

 

Flow Schedule - Option 4 (no-delay for start of fishing season) The purpose
of increasing the peak flow to 7,000 cfs in water year 2005 is to accelerate
implementation of the ROD by facilitating floodway clearing actions.

 

If conditions develop over the next several months, or in any given year,
the TMC recommends that scientists from the Klamath and Trinity coordinate
the establishment, monitoring, and assessment of criteria for determining
the onset of fish die-off conditions in the Klamath River. The TMC will
convene and recommend emergency actions should those conditions develop.  In
the meantime the TMC believes it prudent for Reclamation to explore the
potential for acquiring 'outside sources' of water, i.e. supplemental to the
ROD specified volumes, should the need arise.

 

Seven votes for the recommendation and 1 against.  Trinity County voted no
on the grounds that a three-day delay should be implemented for fly-fishing
season, but agreed with all other elements of the recommendation. 

 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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