Technical Report

Scientific Review Report San Acacia Fish Passage

URL: https://webapps.usgs.gov/mrgescp/documents/PBS%26J_2011_Scientific%20Review%20Report%20San%20Acacia%20Fish%20Passage.pdf

Date: 2011/02/28

Author(s): PBS&J

Publication: Prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Prepared by PBS&J, 33 p.

Abstract:

The middle Rio Grande Collaborative Program has sought an independent review of the requirement, included in the 2003 Biological Opinion (United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 2003) for the Rio Grande silvery minnow (RGSM), to install fish passage at the San Acacia Diversion Dam (SADD). This report presents the results of an assessment by an independent review panel (“the Panel”) of whether this requirement for fish passage at SADD is based on sound science. A draft version of this report was submitted on January 13, 2011 followed by a panel presentation on January 26, 2011 in Albuquerque. Comments from the discussion during that meeting and written comments submitted have been considered in the finalization of this report.