[env-trinity] FW: Trinity Flows

[Byron]

As it turns out, the Bureau modified the TAMWG and TMC recommended flows.  A
hydrograph of deviation is attached.  The schedule released by the Bureau
yesterday ends abruptly in April.  Normally, the water-type year
determination is made by April 1.  And, normally we get a full year flows
schedule by now.  

 

Now, through one of the incredible provisions of OCAP, Bureau's Operating
Criteria and Plan) which now is being litigated by NRDC and EarthJustice,
Kirk Rodgers, regional Mid-Pac Bureau manager, is given authority to declare
a different water-type year through the end of May - he could call this year
dry, for example when it clearly is normal.  The Bureau always has
maintained that a final deadline for such determination was April 1, and
preferably earlier. 

 

The camel's nose is under the tent to breach the Record of Decision.
Interior just tried another such move with attempt at fall Trinity water
from ROD for Lower Klamath.

 

 

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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