Planned Trinity Water Release Rankles Central Valley Irrigators
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Grant Scott-Goforth
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July 23, 2013 at 11:22AM
to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, urging her to respond to questions about the Bureau of Reclamation’s long-term intentions with Trinity River water and to increase flows this year “to avert a potential environmental, economic and cultural disaster.” In an email last week, Hoopa Valley Tribe member Communications Coordinator Regina Chichizola said water planning on the Trinity, Klamath and Sacramento rivers needs to be coordinated. “We have warned for years that the BOR shorting the Klamath River to benefit the Klamath farmers and relying on the Trinity, the Klamath's largest tributary, to avoid a fish kill could lead to a battle between the Klamath and Central Valley farmers,” she wrote.