When the policy is fully implemented, how much spawning habitat does the State Water Board anticipate will be reclaimed? And, what is the anticipated impact on fish populations?
The Legislature has required the State Water Board to adopt principles and guidelines for maintaining instream flows needed for the protection of fishery resources. In response to this mandate, the draft policy was developed to maintain instream flows to protect existing condition for the benefit of fishery resources. It was not developed for the purposes of reclaiming spawning habitat. This would have involved additional provisions that would have affected existing “authorized” dams and diversions that do not currently have terms and conditions that are protective of fishery resources. The draft policy proposes that the State Water Board conduct monitoring to evaluate how effective the policy is in maintaining instream flows that are protective of anadromous salmonids and their habitat, and whether the policy criteria may need to be modified. Monitoring may consist of monitoring stream hydrology, geomorphology, and anadromous salmonid habitat conditions in selected representative stre
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