this is peter dreickmeyer from the tuolomne river trust. it's good to communicate with all of you again. i just want to remind you that next week is the 50th anniversary of earth day, quite a milestone, april 15, 1970. in response to that milestone of support, shortly therefore the clean water -- thereafter the clean water act and environmental species act. we've seen a lot on this issue, but not on the tuolomne. in 1970, the new don pedro dam was completed. though only so much water could be captured before it had to spill in the tuolomne. in 1944, there were 144,000 salmon spanning in the river. but new don pedro holds 2 million acre feet, so we're getting much worse flows, and the salmon population has crashed. this last year, we just had 2500 salmon spanning. so we've seen sfpuc do some very good things in the past. a little over ten years ago, there was a problem with steel head dying in the summer, and it convinced the water district in modesto to join it in releasing water in the summer. so we know that cooperation can happen, and we

this is peter dreickmeyer from the tuolomne river trust. it's good to communicate with all of you again. i just want to remind you that next week is the 50th anniversary of earth day, quite a milestone, april 15, 1970. in response to that milestone of support, shortly therefore the clean water -- thereafter the clean water act and environmental species act. we've seen a lot on this issue, but not on the tuolomne. in 1970, the new don pedro dam was completed. though only so much water could be captured before it had to spill in the tuolomne. in 1944, there were 144,000 salmon spanning in the river. but new don pedro holds 2 million acre feet, so we're getting much worse flows, and the salmon population has crashed. this last year, we just had 2500 salmon spanning. so we've seen sfpuc do some very good things in the past. a little over ten years ago, there was a problem with steel head dying in the summer, and it convinced the water district in modesto to join it in releasing water in the summer. so we know that cooperation can happen, and we