HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetter from Les Heringer 06.19.08 - PG&E relicensing app #803 M & T CHICO RANCH . 3964 CHICO RIVER ROAD • CHICO - CALIFORNIA 95928 - (530) 342-2954 . FAX (530) 342-4138
June 19, 2008
Ms. Kimberly D. Bose
P.G.&E.
FERC, 888 1" Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20246
Dear Ms. Bose:
This letter is being written to support P.G.&E.'s DeSalba-Centerville Project
Relicensing Application #803. There has been a 15 year cooperative effort to fully
restore good annual runs of Spring Run Salmon to Butte Creek. Because of the support
and commitment of landowners, water users, Ducks Unlimited, agencies, the Butte Creek
Conservancy, and especially P.G.&E. and their employees, the annual return of the Butte
Creek Salmon now happens in numbers never before believed possible. Fish return
numbers are now meeting or exceeding the spawning area in Butte Creek that is available
for the Spring Run Salmon. Without P.G.&E. and their Feather River water import
network to supplement the natural Butte Creek summer flows, we would not have the
success story that the agencies now use as a statewide model on how cooperative efforts
to improve the environment can really work. Please expedite P.G.&E.'s FERC
Relicensing Application for their DeSalba-Centerville Project. Their stewardship of the
environment has been commendable.
Sincerely,
Les Heringer
Manager
CC: Mr. William Zemke
P.G.&E. Senior License Coordinator
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94 1 77-000 1
Chairman, Butte County Board of Supervisors
25 County Center Drive
Oroville, CA 95965
Tracy McReynolds
CA Dept. of Fish & Game
2545 Zanella Way, Suite F
Chico, CA 95928
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