Delta Flow Criteria

Exhibits Submitted for the Informational Proceeding of March 22, 2010

California Sportfishing Protection Alliance

• Exhibit Identification List
• Witness Identification List
• Statement of Qualifications
  • Bill Jennings
  • Carl F. Mesick
  • G. Fred Lee
  • Don E. Stevens, Dave W. Kohlhorst and Lee Miller
• Written Testimonies
  • Bill Jennings
  • Carl F. Mesick
  • G. Fred Lee
  • Don E. Stevens, Dave W. Kohlhorst, and Lee Miller
• Other Exhibits
  • Exhibit 3 - DFG Midwater Trawl Data, 1967-2009
  • Exhibit 4 - A Review of Delta Fish Population Losses from Pumping Operations in the Sacramento--San Joaquin River Delta, Prepared by Larry Walker Associates, January 2010
  • Exhibit 5 - Excerpts from the State Water Resources Control Board1987-8 Water Quality Control Plan and 1992 Bay/Delta Water Rights Proceedings. Annotated Excerpts from Testimony Compiled by the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
  • Exhibit 6 - California Sportfishing Protection Alliance Recommendations for Optimal Ecological Conditions.
  • Exhibit 9 - Relationships between Flow and Water Temperature in the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced Rivers near their Confluences with the San Joaquin River and in the San Joaquin River near Mossdale from March 15 to May 15. Prepared by Carl Mesick February 11, 2010.
  • Exhibit 10 - Relationships between Flow, Water Temperature, and Exports in the San Joaquin River Delta and the Rate that Adult Merced River Hatchery Fall-Run Chinook Salmon with Coded-Wire-Tags Were Recovered in the Central Valley Escapement and the Ocean Fisheries. Prepared by Carl Mesick February 13, 2010.
  • Exhibit 11 - Instream Flow Recommendations for the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, And Merced Rivers to Maintain the Viability of the Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Populations. Prepared by Carl Mesick February 14, 2010.
  • Exhibit 12 - Estimating the Total Number of Coded Wire-Tagged Adult Fall-Run Chinook salmon (Onocorynchus tshawytscha) in California’s Central valley rivers. Mesick C., D. Martson and T. Heyne. USFWS Instream Energy and Flow Branch 2009.
  • Exhibit 13 - Estimating Recruitment for Fall-Run Chinook salmon populations in the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced Rivers. Mesick C., D. Martson and T. Heyne. Instream Energy Flow Branch USFWS 2009.
  • Exhibit 14 - The High Risk of Extinction for the Natural Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Population in the Lower Tuolumne River due to Insufficient Instream Flow Releases. Carl Mesick, Ph.D. Energy and Instream Flow Branch, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • Exhibit 15 - Flow-Overbank Inundation Relationship for Potential Fall-Run Chinook Salmon and steelhead/rainbow Trout Juvenile Outmigration Habitat in The Tuolumne River. Prepared by staff of the Energy Planning and Instream Flow Branch, USFWS 2010.
  • Exhibit 16 - San Joaquin River Basin Water Temperature Modeling and Analysis. Prepared by AD Consultants for CALFED ERP-06D-S-20. October 2009.
  • Exhibit 17 - Conceptual Models of Stressors and Limiting Factors for San Joaquin River Chinook Salmon. San. Joaquin River Restoration Program. February 2008.
  • Exhibit 18 - An evaluation of four Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta juvenile salmon survival studies. Newman, K.B. Stockton FWO. US Fish and Wildlife Service. March 31, 2008
  • Exhibit 19 - Framework for Assessing Viability of Threatened and Endangered Chinook Salmon and Steelhead in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Basin. Steven T. Lindley et. al., San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Published by the California Bay-Delta Authority and the John Muir Institute of the Environment. February 2007.
  • Exhibit 20 - Recommended Streamflow Schedules To Meet the AFRP Doubling Goal in the San Joaquin River Basin. USFWS AFRP 2005.
  • Exhibit 21 - EPA Region 10 Guidance for Pacific Northwest State and Tribal Temperature Water Quality Standards. United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, Office of Water EPA 910-B-03-0. April 2003
  • Exhibit 24 - Discussion of Water Quality Issues that Should Be Considered in Evaluating the Potential Impact of Delta Water Diversions/Manipulations on Chemical Pollutants on Aquatic Life Resources of the Delta. G. Fred Lee, PhD, PE, BCEE, F.ASCE and Anne Jones-Lee, PhD.
• References, Historical Exhibits, and Other Supporting Documents
  • 1987
  • 1992

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