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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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DELTA SM

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ELT CONSOLIDATED CASES 

SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER 

AUTHORIT

et al.

Y, et al. v. SALAZAR, 

STATE WATER CONTRACTORS v. 

SALAZAR, et al.

COALITIO

DELTA, TES 

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, et 

al.

N FOR A SUSTAINABLE 

et al. v. UNITED STA

METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT v. 

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE 

SERVICE, et al.

STEWART 

al. v. UNITED STATES FISH AND 

WILDLIFE

1:09-CVREQUESTS FOR INFORMATION FROM 

706 EXPE

& JASPER ORCHARDS et 

 SERVICE. 

407 OWW DLB 

RTS. 

The 706 Experts have requested the following information 

from the

 ) A table or spreadsheet comparing actual and predicted 

(from CALSIM or CALLite) OMR flows and X2 for as many years as 

h 

e Fall Midwater Trawl Survey (1967+) 

 Federal Defendants: 

(1

possible. 

(2) A spreadsheet containing the following time-series (wit

measures of sampling variability where available): 

• Th

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arly juvenile 

delta

ring Kodiak Trawl Survey (SKT) 

y OMR flows (by month) 

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ata or depiction that helps to explain 

the r

eographic metric over a range of flow conditions. 

(The 706 Experts desire to assess first, how 2 ppt (X2) describes 

econd, 

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Could

• The Summer Townet Survey (TNS) of young-of-year delta 

smelt (1959+) 

• The 20-mm survey of young post-larval/ e

 smelt (1995+) 

• The Sp

• Salvage (by months) separately for adults and juveniles

• Average dail

• X2 (by month) 

(3) An explanation of which data were used to construct 

e E-22. 

(4) Any available d

elationship between salinity and river km or another 

standardized g

the overall shift in salinity with distance upstream, and s

how the entire shape of the salinity distribution varies among 

years.) Even more useful would be a two-dimensional depiction of 

salinity as a function of area within the region of interest, 

with notation where X2 is fixed, given those data. 

(5) Doc. 470 refers to an analysis by Dr. Michael Johnson. 

However, no reference to this analysis is provided in Document 

470, and there is no reference to this analysis in the

 the status of this analysis be clarified? 

(6) Federal Defendants shall inform the court within five

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(5) days whether information responsive to each of these reques

is available in the record. If the information is 

ts 

available, 

Federal Defendants are requested to provide an estimate as to how 

 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger

long it would take to provide the requested data/clarifications 

to the 706 Experts. 

SO ORDERED 

Dated: February 19, 2010 

Oliver W. Wanger 

United States District Judge 

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