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Red Bluff Diversion Dam gates to lower

Posted by: Maven on June 10, 2009 at 7:39 am

From the Tehama Daily News:

The gates at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam are set to be lowered at midnight Monday, filling Lake Red Bluff by later that afternoon.

The Bureau of Reclamation said the gates will be closed on the diversion dam for about two-and-a-half months this year for agricultural purposes and will be raised to provide unimpeded fish passage for salmon, steelhead and sturgeon at the end of August.

The bureau announced the decision Tuesday following last week’s release of a federal biological opinion, which allows the dam to lower its gates on an abbreviated schedule for the next three years. The latest opinion comes after years of court battles over the diversion dam and other Central Valley water operations’ affects on endangered and threatened species of migrating fish in the Sacramento River.

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