Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 5

Thursday, November 1, 1979 Santa Cruz Sentinel-S Both Sides Satisfied With New Melones Decision current rainy season. The level after 1980 will depend on how a federal court rules on the state's power to limit the filling, Andrus said. The 808-foot level is about halfway up the 625-foot dam. But because the V-shaped channel is narrower toward the bottom, the quantity is only about auO.OOO acre-feet, 12Vz percent of the 2.4 million acre-feet it could hold. The USBR had proposed 597,000 acre-feet this year.

The state board's staff had recommended 623,000 acre-feet, which would flood 2'2 miles of the white water. The Friends of the River had requested less than 300,000 acre-feet. Friends of New Melones went along with 623,000 lor now. Andrus said the 808 feet would be held as long as downstream flows do not exceed 5,000 cubic feet per second. He directed the U.S.

Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service to tak? over the archaeological work and finish it in 1980. It has been done so far by Scientific Applications, Inc. of San Diego under contract to the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Andrus also directed the USBR to complete its supplemental environmental impact statement and water allocations report by July 1980.

He said he was aware of the conttroversy around New SACRAMENTO (AP) The New Melones water level will be held at Parrott's Ferry below the rafters' rapids for another year, says U.S. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus. Andrus' said Wednesday it would give experts time to finish digging out Indian and Gold Rush relics. His decision was called "a partial victory" by the Friends of the River, an environmental group which hopes to preserve the rapids. The farmer-dominated Friends of New Melones, which wants the reservoir filled, said it was satisfied that Andrus intends to operate the reservoir at full capacity after 1980.

But its consultant expressed displeasure with several details. The state Water Quality Control Board said the decision, which puts the water at 808 feet above sea level, takes the matter out of its hands for another year. The board had said it wouldn't object to 808 feet. But the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recommended 877 feet, which would cover 2' 2 miles of white water.

The board was considering that when Andrus announced 808 feet. Andrus said that, barring a very wet year or an historic flood, the water won't be allowed over 808 feet behind the dam, on the Stanislaus River east of Stockton. That gives it only about half as much water as the USBR planned to put in during the the Riverbank sanitation system. The farmers had requested 3,500 maximum, and the USBR proposed 8,000. The Army Corps of Engineers said the river will hold 8,000 but recommended no more than 3,500 except during floods.

Kramer said he was also concerned that the low reservoir level would raise the water temperature too high for salmon spawning. And he said Andrus made no provision for carryover storage in case of drought. The state board ruled in 1973 that New Melones should not be filled beyond the amount required to supply farmers with prior rights and to maintain fisheries and water quality until the federal government contracted for the extra water and built a distribution system. The board said that meant 200,000 acre-feet for the farmers who held rights from the old, smaller Melones Reservoir; 124,000 acre-feet to maintain fish, and 70,000 acre-feet to maintain water quality in the river. That adds up to 394,000 acre-feet, but computer studies indicated there would have to be 623,000 acre-feet in the reservoir to assure that there would be 394,000 acre-feet in successive years because of the possibility of drought.

Melones, but "Congress directed that the dam be built and operated. "There are also other laws which direct federal agencies to mitigate historical and cultural losses The Department of the Interior will meet all of its responsibilities." A Friends of the River spokesman, Richard Roos-Collins, said the decision "will give us another year to present our case to the public and to try to get Congress to put the Stanislaus under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act." Roos-Collins said he was pleased that the archaeological work was turned over to a federal agency because he said the work done for the Corps of Engineers had been unsatisfactory. He said he hoped the USBR's supplementary environmental impact report would show Andrus that "the provision of water and electricity from the dam does not justify loss of the canyon." The Friends of New Melones consultant, Milton Kramer, said Andrus apparently means to operate the reservoir at capacity after 1980. "This is what we want and to that extent we are satisfied." But on Andrus' statement that a downstream flow as high as 5,000 cubic feet per second would be allowed, kramer said that bove 3,500 cubic feet per second the water seeps into farm land above the river's flood plain, and high flows could also damage Emergency Agencies Puzzled By Math Muk-Luks Slipper Socks 6.50 High top style Brushed Heathers in solid pastels with print yard border stripe. High top style Brightly colored snowflake jacquard in foot.

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