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Feds looking for extension on Trinity water permits until 2030

Posted by: Maven on October 27, 2009 at 12:48 pm

From the Eureka Times Standard:

“The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is asking for a decades-long extension of state water permits on the Trinity River to give it more time to find uses for the water — a move river advocates say could threaten the water available for salmon and steelhead.

The petition to the State Water Resources Control Board was first filed in 1985, but the bureau never acted further on it. Reclamation has revived the application for an extension of its water rights on the Trinity and other Central Valley rivers until 2030, but didn’t identify in the application what water projects are on tap that would allow it to use the water.

The request also does not include the 2000 U.S. Interior Department’s decision to reduce diversions to the Sacramento River from the Trinity River to aid salmon. It has led some conservationists to voice concern that Reclamation might continue to divert large amounts of water from Trinity Lake reservoir and risk the availability of cold water for fish.

”I think what it shows is the bureau is not really serious about protecting the Trinity River fishery,” said Tom Stokely with the California Water Impact Network.

The network and Trinity County are among the parties protesting the petition. …”

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October 27, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California

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