How long would it take a salmon fry to move past ¼ mile of intakes and how many times would that fry have to swim back out of the flow? Is it possible that the outgoing tide at the lower end of the screen will be full of dead fish that didn’t have the stamina to continue swimming for the entire length of the intake, and how has that been factored into the design?
June 15, 2020How does the project team know about the soil composition at the depths of the tunnel, which is over 100 feet below the surface?
June 15, 2020The demonstrations shown likely did not show peat soils. For the Delta Conveyance tunnel, based upon existing available geotechnical information, peat soils would not exist at the depths of the tunnel excavation (approximately greater than 100 feet below the ground surface).