San Joaquin River Group - Administration

FINAL
Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report

Meeting Flow Objectives for the San Joaquin River Agreement 1999-2010

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES	On or Following Page
ES-1	Summary comparison of alternative impacts	ES-5
2.1-1	Hierarchy for the provision of the pulse flow (31-day period) for Vernalis Adaptive Management Plan	2-2
2.1-2	Sources of available water for proposed project	2-7
2.1-3	VAMP target flows and export rates	2-8
2.4-1	Initial screening of alternatives for EIS/EIR	2-18
2.5-1	Comparison of no action, proposed action and alternative action for meeting flow objectives for the San Joauin River Agreement	2-21

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES	On or Following Page
3.1-1	Surface and groundwater use by willing sellers	3-3
3.3-1	Summary of groundwater conditions in the San Joaquin River Region	3-31
3.4-1	Potentially occurring plant series along the San Joaquin River and tributaries	3-35
3.4-2	The combined interactive effects of individual hydrograph components and fluvial geomorphology on riparian vegetation	3-40
3.4-3	Common plant series found along the Tuolumne River, the associated range of discharges that the series falls within, and the recurrence intervals of the discharges pre- and post- New Don Pedro Dam	3-42
3.4-4	Potentially occurring plant species along the San Joaquin River and tributaries	3-43
3.4-5	Mammals commonly occurring in the San Joaquin Valley	3-56
3.4-6	State and federal threatened, endangered, proposed, and candidate wildlife species that may occur in the project area	3-57
3.5-1	San Joaquin River Basin and Delta native and non-native fish species	3-65
3.5-2	Water year types and historical summary for the San Joaquin River Basin, 1930–1997	3-72
3.5-3	San Joaquin Basin reservoirs by name, watershed, and principal species	3-78
3.5-4	Sensitive fish species in the San Joaquin River Basin	3-80
3.5-5	San Joaquin Basin Chinook Salmon escapement estimates, 1940-1996	3-82
3.5-6	Fish Species Occurring in San Joaquin Basin reservoirs	3-90
3.6-1	Population growth, 1990-1998	3-96
3.6-2	City populations, 1998	3-97
3.6-3	Population density, 1998	3-98
3.6-4	Annual average industry employment, March 1996 benchmark	3-99
3.6-5	Agricultural land and irrigated acreage, 1992	3-102
3.6-6	Irrigated acres and production value in the San Joaquin River Region, 1986 to 1995	3-103
3.6-7	Irrigation applied water use in the San Joaquin River Region, 1985 to 1990	3-104
3.7-1	Prehistoric resource chronology of the San Joaquin River Region	3-107
3.7-2	Prehistoric sites by county in the San Joaquin River Region	3-108
3.7-3	Historic resources by county in the San Joaquin River Region	3-109
3.7-4	Prehistoric resource chronology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta	3-112
3.8-1	Reservoirs with recreation use	3-115
3.9-1	Hydroelectric power facilities located on the Stanislaus River	3-125
3.9-2	Hydroelcectric power facilities located on the Tuolumne River	3-126
3.9-3	Hydroelectric power facilities located on the Merced River	3-126
3.11-1	Population by race and ethnicity, 1990	3-129
3.11-2	Income and poverty, 1989	3-130
3.11-3	Housing, labor force, and employment, 1990 and 1995	3-131

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES	On or Following Page
4.1-1	Water uses potentially affected by proposed project	4-4
4.2-1	Average allocation of SJRA water (TAF) over the 71-year hydrologic period (1922-1992) and allocation as a percent of water available (April release)	4-8
4.2-2	Average allocation of SJRA water (TAF) over the 71-year hydrologic period (1922-1992) and allocation as a percent of maximum surface water available (May release)	4-8
4.2-3	Number of occurrences of full allocations (110 TAF) needed to meet SJRA flow obligations over the 71-year hydrologic period (1922-1992)	4-9
4.2-4	Average end-of-year storage (TAF) in project reservoirs for No Action - April	4-11
4.2-5	Average end-of-year storage (TAF) in project reservoirs for No Action - May	4-12
4.2-6	New Melones Reservoir - Stanislaus River average change in end-of-year storage (TAF) upon implementation of the Proposed Action (SJRA)	4-13

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES (cont.)	On or Following Page
4.2-7	New Don Pedro Reservoir - Tuolumne River average change in end-of-year storage (TAF) upon implementation of the Proposed Action (SJRA)	4-14
4.2-8	Lake McClure (New Exchequer) - Merced River average change in end-of-year storage (TAF) upon implementation of the Proposed Action (SJRA)	4-15
4.2-9	Change in reservoir carryover storage (TAF) resulting from implementation of the SWRCB Water Right Priority System	4-15
4.2-10	Number of exceedences of 1995 Bay/Delta Water Quality Objective at Vernalis over the 71-year hydrologic period	4-17
4.2-11	Average water quality (TDS) at Vernalis by water year type	4-18
4.5-1	A Average percent changes in cfs for rivers with April/May project compared with base case by water year type	4-71
4.5-1	B Average monthly cfs for rivers with and without April/May project along with base case for April/May by water year type	4-75
4.5-2	Average water surface elevations and percent changes for reservoirs with April/May Project compared with base case by water year type	4-79
4.5-3	Average percent change in flow for SWRCB Alternative 3 as compared with Alternative 2 for major tributaries of the San Joaquin River over a 73-year period and a critical period (May 1928 to October 1934)	4-86
4.5-4	Percent change in reservoir habitat index for SWRCB Alternative 3 compared with SWCB Alternative 2	4-90
4.6-1	Agricultural land use in willing seller districts	4-100
4.8-1	Recreation impact assessment for New Melones Reservoir	4-115
4.8-2	Recreation impact assessment for New Don Pedro Reservoir	4-117
4.8-3	Recreation impact assessment for Lake McClure	4-119
4.8-4	Recreation impact assessment for the San Joaquin River	4-121
4.8-5	Recreation impact assessment for the Stanislaus River	4-122
4.8-6	Recreation iImpact assessment for the Tuolumne River	4-124
4.8-7	Recreation Impact Assessment for the Merced River	4-125
4.9-1	Average storage capacity during summer months by water year for New Melones Reservoir	4-130
4.9-2	Average storage capacity during summer months by water year for New Don Pedro Reservoir	4-131

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES (cont.)	On or Following Page
4.9-3	Average storage capacity during summer months by water year for Lake McClure	4-132
4.9-4	Average flow during summer months by water year for the Stanislaus River	4-134
4.9-5	Average flow during summer months by water year for the Tuolumne River	4-135
4.9-6	Average flow during summer months by water year for the Merced River	4-136
4.12-1	Summary of cumulative impacts	4-149
6.3-1	County General plan policy summary	6-13
7-1	List of technical and support personnel	7-1
B.1-1	Average annual agriculture usage in the Turlock Groundwater Basin	B-2
B.1-2	Inflow and outflow in the Turlock Groundwater Basin	B-3
B.1-3	Projections of agricultural and municipal groundwater demands in the Turlock Groundwater Basin	B-5
B.2-1	nflow and outflow in the Modesto Groundwater Basin	B-10
B.2-2	Projections of agricultural and municipal groundwater demands in the Modesto Groundwater Basin	B-11
B.3-1	Average annual agricultural usage in the Merced Groundwater Basin	B-16
B.3-2	Groundwater usage by municipalities in the Merced Groundwater Basin	B-17
B.4-1	South San Joaquin Irrigation District water budget (1979-1998)	B-23
B.4-2	Oakdale Irrigation District study area North Stanislaus River water budget (1970-19982)	B-24
B.5-1	Long-term groundwater trends in the Exchange Contractors service area (prior to 1990)	B-29
B.5-2	Inflow and outflow of groundwater in the Exchange Contractors service area (long-term average normal year)	B-30
D-1	Threatened or endangered species identified by the USFWS or State agencies as potentially occuring in the project area	D-1

Table No.	LIST OF TABLES (cont.)	On or Following Page
G-1	Existing and proposed stations for flow and water quality monitoring in the lower San Joaquin Basin (hourly and/or daily data)	G-7
G-2	Fisheries monitoring activities in the San Joaquin River Basin	G-8

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