Gate Diversions for Chinook Salmon and Delta Smelt
To ensure compliance with the conditions of the permit, and minimize the entrainment of protected aquatic species, the SRCD and the DFG are required to conduct five fall and four spring diversion monitoring checks.
In 1994 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) rendered Biological Opinions for the renewal of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regional General Permit.
The special conditions of this permit required SRCD and DFG to ensure compliance with water management restrictions during specified periods of the year to protect winter-run Chinook Salmon and Delta Smelt. To comply with these conditions SRCD developed and implemented the Suisun Marsh Diversion Monitoring Program.
Condition 12. Landowners diverting water from the sloughs crosshatched on Sheet 15 shall use no more than 25% of the water control structure's diversion capacity from November 1 to the last day of duck hunting season. These landowners are prohibited from diverting water from these sloughs from February 21 to March 31.
Condition 14. While diversion restrictions are in place the SRCD and the DFG shall monitor gate closures.
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