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Hubel...I live in Eureka and try to stay on top of local issues so help me out here. It is my understanding that when Trinity Dam was build the agreement called for about 60% of the flows to remain in the North Fork but over the years the Westlands Irrigation District got that reduced to around 10% . One court agreed with the tribes and other downriver parties to release more water but another court stayed the ruling. I said on another thread a few weeks ago that Trinity Lake could have released more water this fall but really there should have been no releases and let mother nature play her hand.

Hello friend-The only problem of not releasing water, say to keep it more natural, is they are hatchery spawning many more numbers than natural that grow up and come in and need water to not be crowded to get upstream. All of this is a tax paid benefit for fisherman and tribes which I am glad to pay my share.And I care as much for their welfare as I do the farms.The diversion has to be straightened out, like last year about 600,000
acre ft went to S Cal and 450,000 acre ft went into river.
They have gotten a little more back over the years.
And that was a little dryer year than normal in Trinity watershed.This year it is definately wet so far, way above average.To be done right they need about 550,000 ac ft left in river, no matter wet or dry and the releases geared to when fish come in...IE don't do like this year when judge gave them a 100,000 ac ft and they shot it all down in spring, when they already had a 125,000 bump for spring above base flows.Should of had that water on hand for Aug-Sept
fish returns in this dry year.There was room in Trinity Lake to store it.Let the rest above Trinity guarantee, whatever it is be stored and used over the hill.It will vary from year to year.IE keep
Trinity guaranteed a minimum not a percentage.In real wet years
Trinity and over the hill storage will even it out so as to have water in dry years there and protect Trinity minimum.
If this would have been done right, the fish wouldn't have died.Politics and mismanagement killed fish.And old Thompson
and cronies standing in his district, looking up the hill to
the east crucifying Upper Basin farms is crap, when they need to make a right turn and vent their ire to the south, and straighten it out.Ed Hubel.