Twitchell reservoir was created to alleviate flooding throughout the Santa Maria Valley and to store storm water to recharge the aquifer during the summer months. Regardless, the feds are proposing to release “extra water” (there is no such thing) from the normally dry Twitchell reservoir to help recover steelhead trout runs on the normally dry Santa Ma…
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