San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Haugrud

OPINION

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In late summer 2013, the Bureau of Reclamation (“BOR”) released Trinity River water from the Lewiston Dam, above and beyond the amount designated in the applicable water release schedule (a schedule that was devised to benefit only the Trinity River basin). That water flowed down the Trinity River and into the lower Klamath River, where winter-run salmon were beginning their migration upriver to their spawning grounds. BOR released the water to help prevent a mass die-off of these salmon in the lower Klamath, which are threatened when the Klamath River runs…