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JUL -08 -2002 MON 09:09 AM <br />FAX <br />P. 03 <br />11118tr0ftm Flow Recolumendations <br />Peak Flows <br />.� <br />Species, Flows i \n><1ual .Pulse h'lovtrs ; << , <br />(ISov�anan, 1)94) <br />Ilowmaut Und (.'�rlaoil, Iw4i) (Bownvin and Cmison, 194) / <br />` 1'rcrl;r am Target Y lows _ _ • <br />Usod for MiLlatiOnS and Biological Opinions <br />.............. ' <br />Ia i��llrc 1. SC.11C111,16C showing relationships between FWS- recoil mended flows. <br />il IF, Irg.ani Y Ic1w 1�cc�tnlmend�>tic�ns <br />r)a1illccl ar Lho Cnlire suite of flow recon menditions Cor the Coultral Platte River articulated in <br />two T WS documents: 1'rlscrcrrrn Floiv Reconm endations for- the C'err/r•nl Plalle River (Bowluan, <br />May 23, 1994), and PWr e Flow Requir-ements,Jur the Cenirtir Platte River (Bowman and <br />Carlson, Aw,'ust 3, 1994). Collectively, 111e9C reCO1TImenda.tions are 111tonded to achieve tho, flow - <br />dcl onderll goal of "rehabilitating and main1ainilig the stricture mid function, patterns and <br />procosscs, 'and Ntiilat of the central Platte River Valley ecosystem ". Subsets of these <br />rCCA111111C1u11.1t10J1S have SI[1Ce b�c11 catcgorixecl as "species flows ", ..annual pulse flows ", and <br />"peak [lows" 1:1y FWS, W, illLIStr1,lc(1 conceptLially in Figure 1. <br />11.cigs Flows <br />Dclmcd its all flow reconin enda.11ons quanliflecl in the doculilent 111wream F10Tv <br />lc'ec 0iitrrr0 n (let tinrls,J'vr� t/U,, (,entr•rrl P147tte River, Nebraska (Bowman, 1994). These Were <br />esla ]h5I1CCl as recon1 III Cildelj "wet ycat", "dry year" and "normal year" I inin-lulll flows for <br />various Periods of the year (for exuTlple, from February 1 through March 22) for the purpose of <br />mccling the ti,lhilat neeCis of native biotic components of the ecosystem. Thoy are presented iii <br />`1'11111c: 1 o1' T;owiiinn, 1994 (AtLachment A to this docilnment) and 51.11nmariled as follows: <br />9) <br />