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  1. #1
    thatguy
    Hey Guys,
    Hate to be a nay sayer, but the reservoir at Red Bluff is alarmingly DRY. Not a drop and feeder creek is also dry. I have lived here for 4 years and it is always full by now. Unless I was drunk all those times. Anybody got some info or input on this?
    Tommy

  2. #2
    fltflyn
    May 15 thru Sept. 15.

  3. #3
    stoker2001
    May 15 thru Sept. 15.what he said

  4. #4
    Sangster
    :idea: ..... "Unless I was drunk all those times."...Well atleast you admit it.....

  5. #5
    vdriveride
    Todays paper...
    Dam gates will drop early in Red Bluff
    Official says emergency action required to meet irrigation needs in Tehama, Colusa
    By Dylan Darling (Contact)
    Wednesday, April 25, 2007
    With no rain expected to fall soon, the gates of the Red Bluff diversion dam are going to drop early this year to boost irrigation supplies in Tehama and Colusa counties.
    A pumping plant has been releasing 465 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water into the main irrigation canal since the start of the month, but it hasn't been able to keep up with demand, said Jeff Sutton, general manager of the Tehama Colusa Canal Authority.
    What's this?"Demand can be 900 to 1,700 cfs," he said.
    Sutton called the early dropping of the gates an "emergency dam closure." The diversion should put 1,000 to 1,300 cfs into the canal that feeds 18 water districts encompassing 160,000 acres in the two counties, he said.
    "It's to provide water that we can't pump," said Paul Freeman, the dam's division chief for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
    The dam will be closed for one to 10 days between Sunday and May 8, according to the bureau. The closure will temporarily form Lake Red Bluff, a byproduct of the diversion, along the Sacramento River.
    But don't get attached to the lake just yet.
    Federal regulations that protect salmon and green sturgeon in the river require the 18-foot steel gates to be raised again for five days before Lake Red Bluff is formed officially for the season May 15.
    The gates and the popular recreation lake will then be in place until Sept. 15.
    Although it's the site of the Nitro Nationals Drag Boat Festival -- which draw about 30,000 spectators each Memorial Day weekend -- the lake's days could be numbered.
    The federal government has proposed shortening or eliminating Lake Red Bluff's existence, adding more pumps to supply the canal, and lessening the time the dam's gates are down each year or getting rid of the dam completely.
    Red Bluff city officials have opposed the plan, saying pulling the dam could sink recreation at the lake and the boat races -- costing the city an estimated $4.2 million.
    Sutton said city officials also need to account for the economic impact the water users have in Tehama and Colusa counties, which produce $100 million in crops each year.
    This year's emergency dam closure underlines the need for a permanent solution that will provide more reliable water early in the growing season to the canal, he said.
    "It's too much to keep gambling on," Sutton said.

  6. #6
    Kindsvater Flat
    Its gonna happen I bet. We get some water from Tehema Colusa Canal. We also suck 3000cfs from the sac river just for agriculture. We have been on the river for about 2 weeks pulling gravel and dredging since the water level is so low.
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