This week, Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) sent a letter to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton requesting the BOR work to preserve enough cold water to sustain threatened fish populations in the Trinity River ahead of what is expected to be a severely dry summer.Additionally, Rep. Huffman called for significant infrastructure investments to the Trinity River Division to improve its ability to adjust the temperature of water released to the river.#placement_573654_0_i{width:100%;max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid573654 = window.pid573654 || rnd;var plc573654 = window.plc573654 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=573654;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid573654+';place='+(plc573654++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');“Northern California is likely headed into another severely dry summer with grave consequences to tribal and coastal communities and the fisheries they rely on. Without drastic measures to address overallocated flows from the Trinity River to the Central Valley Project, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation risks depleting the cold-water threshold in the Trinity Reservoir necessary to sustain fish populations through the fall,” Huffman wrote in the letter. “Conditions in the Trinity and Klamath river watershed are too dire to risk business as usual for the Central Valley Project. I ask that you quickly and carefully weigh all available options to preserve the Trinity River’s cold water and the fish and communities that depend on it.” googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1515727'); });