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"Ernie" wrote:

steve,
It wasn't the farmers it was the Nevada water board, which strange as it
seems, controlled the flow even though the water is in California. I was up
there the year it happened and the fellow who owned the Marina was so mad he
was spitting nails. It was just a sea of mud. I drove down below for a
mile or so and the stream was also a river of mud. They won't do it again.
Cal Trout and other groups took them to court and put limits on how much
they could draw.

Are you sure they wont do it again? When I was a kid, in the 1980's,
they had a big fish kill. It stank like hell. Trophy trout all over
the banks. It created quite a stir. I figured that was the last time
it would happen. Apparently it happened a couple of years ago. So it
did happen again.