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Tribes Get Judge To Refill Trinity
Thanks to the Hoopa Valley and Yurok tribes, the Trinity River will get more water for its struggling steelhead and salmon this season—but less than originally ordained.
May 2002
The latest episode in the decades-old struggle over the waterway came last month when federal Judge Oliver Wanger granted the tribes’ petition to allow higher flows typical of a wetter year than last.

The judge added 130,000 acre-feet to the base flow of 340,000 acre-feet, still much less than the 647,000 acre-feet ordered by then Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in late 2000.

With as much as 90% of the Trinity diverted to the agribusiness-dominated Central Valley Project since completion of the Trinity Dam 40 years ago, Babbitt sought to redress grievances and meet trust obligations and fishing rights for downstream tribes.

But his decision to keep almost half of the river water in place was taken to court by water and hydropower interests, and Wanger granted a partial injunction until the case is tried this summer.

The suit pits the tribes and envrionmentalists against power providers and Westlands, which with 600 corporate farms is the nation’s largest irrigation district.

Updated  Thursday, May 16, 2002