I received this email from Bill Wells:
"The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) for the proposed 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project (Demonstration Project) for public review. The document was developed in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. Reclamation will hold three public meetings to provide information on the proposed Demonstration Project:
1. Fresno:
Monday, October 26, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Piccadilly Inn, 2305 West Shaw Avenue
1. Discovery Bay:
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Discovery Bay Elementary School, 1700 Willow Lake Road
1. Stockton:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Stockton Scottish Rite, 33 West Alpine Avenue.
The proposed Demonstration Project is a 5-year experiment to validate a new delta smelt behavioral model and study the effects of modifying flows in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) to protect delta smelt and other sensitive aquatic species from entrainment in Central Valley Project (CVP) and State Water Project (SWP) export pumps. Research suggests that the pre-spawning migration of adult delta smelt is tied to sediment/suspended particles in the water (turbidity). Temporary gates would be placed across Old River and Connection Slough in the central Delta and operated from December to March to keep turbid water away from the CVP and SWP export pumps, thus keeping adult delta smelt away from the pumps, and in March and June to prevent larvae and juvenile delta smelt from being entrained by the export pumps.
Bill Wells
Executive Director
California Delta Chambers & Visitor's Bureau
PO Box 1118
Rio Vista, CA 94571"
"The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) for the proposed 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project (Demonstration Project) for public review. The document was developed in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. Reclamation will hold three public meetings to provide information on the proposed Demonstration Project:
1. Fresno:
Monday, October 26, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Piccadilly Inn, 2305 West Shaw Avenue
1. Discovery Bay:
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Discovery Bay Elementary School, 1700 Willow Lake Road
1. Stockton:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Stockton Scottish Rite, 33 West Alpine Avenue.
The proposed Demonstration Project is a 5-year experiment to validate a new delta smelt behavioral model and study the effects of modifying flows in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) to protect delta smelt and other sensitive aquatic species from entrainment in Central Valley Project (CVP) and State Water Project (SWP) export pumps. Research suggests that the pre-spawning migration of adult delta smelt is tied to sediment/suspended particles in the water (turbidity). Temporary gates would be placed across Old River and Connection Slough in the central Delta and operated from December to March to keep turbid water away from the CVP and SWP export pumps, thus keeping adult delta smelt away from the pumps, and in March and June to prevent larvae and juvenile delta smelt from being entrained by the export pumps.
Bill Wells
Executive Director
California Delta Chambers & Visitor's Bureau
PO Box 1118
Rio Vista, CA 94571"