Less than two weeks after a letter was released complaining about water release plans after a stormy North State winter, releases have been increased at Shasta Dam. The letter was signed by 15 California congressional members, including Nevada County’s representative, Doug LaMalfa. But the Public Affairs Officer with the Bureau of Reclamation, Shane Hunt, says the letter had nothing to do with it, although he did cite the dam’s healthy storage level…
Hunt says increasing the outflow from 8-thousand to 9-thousand cubic feet per-second merely meets contractual commitments…
LaMalfa had complained that holding back so much water at Shasta as well as Folsom dams, until later in the year, to help two endangered fish populations, hurts farmers, who need it now, in order to have good crop production. Meanwhile, Hunt says a formal plan on protecting the Chinook salmon and Delta smelt is also being finalized.
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