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Water Year 2003 EA Releases <br />Date s <br />10-01-02 to Present <br />Amount Comments <br />-- To date, no EA releases have been made in WY2003. <br />WY2003 EA Annual Operating Plan <br />Predicted S1vI, October through March 350,000 af <br />Predicted SrTI, October through April 400,000 af <br />Predicted Type-of-Year Very Dry <br />Estimated EA Content on May 1 64,000 af (EA Volume as of March 31, 2003 - 56,715 af) <br />Projected 2003 Non-Irrigation Season No releases beyond those required for minimum diversions at <br />Conditions Keystone, 250-700 cfs) <br />About 600 cfs at Overton through late spring. <br />Projected 2003 Irrigation Season Releases will be made for irrigation customers and routed <br />Conditions through the Districts' storage and regulating facilities, as much as <br />possible, to generate hydropower. <br />Very low to zero flows could occur as early as mid-July at Grand <br />Island and persist throughout the irrigation season. <br />EA Release Plans bv Seasonal Time Period <br />Winter/Early Spring Pulse Flow Period No EA releases anticipated. <br />(December - March) <br />Whooping Crane Migration Season No EA releases anticipated. <br />(March 23 - May 10) <br />Late Spring Pulse Flow Period No EA releases anticipated. <br />(May/June) <br />Summer Tentative Plans are to augment extremely low flows during the <br />(June - September) plover and tern nesting season (June 1- August 15) to maintain a <br />forage base of macroinvertebrates and fish. Final plans to augment <br />during this period will be based on an early spring fish survey to <br />determine the functional presence or absence of the fishery as it <br />relates to tern forage and presence/absence of terns and plovers in <br />the area. <br />11