Last week, KRB sent its comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding mitigation for the Isabella Dam project's adverse effects on whitewater boating on the Kern below the reservoir.
Our primary request is for USACE to require the watermaster provide us "bubble" rec releases in return for the enormous private benefit this public project confers on his clients.
KRB asks that boaters email the Corps to express (1) concern about the adverse effects the project will entail in 2021 (no summer season on the Lower Kern) and (2) support for some regime of bubble releases as mitigation — or boaters can simply email the Corps and express support for the comments submitted by Kern River Boaters.
The Corps is in the process of finalizing its final recreation report on the project, so email these two addresses soon:
isabella@usace.army.mil
Hunter.Merritt@usace.army.mil