ADVISORY/Screening Out the Salmon.

News Editors & Environmental Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Nov. 8)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

   New pump plant/fish screen project to protect young salmon proves
         that federal, state, local agencies can work together
               to protect and enhance Bay/Delta habitat

WHEN:    Thursday, Nov. 8, beginning at 10 a.m.

EVENT:   Dedication of new water pumping plant and fish screen project
         along Sacramento River. The new "fish friendly" pumping plant
         replaces three older facilities of the Princeton-Codora-Glenn
         and the Provident irrigation districts (PCGID/PID) and
         becomes the fourth-largest pumping plant on the river.

WHERE:   At the new pumping plant, about 3 miles north of Glenn,
         Calif., along Highway 45. For assistance with directions on
         the day of the event, call Lance Boyd, PCGID/PID general
         manager, at 530/228-9800.

SUMMARY: The $11 million project helped jump-start the environmental
         restoration movement in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San
         Joaquin Delta. The project improves habitat for threatened
         and endangered salmon and steelhead, while providing more
         reliable water supplies for 30,000 acres of farmland and
         thousands of acres of wetlands. The Department of the
         Interior's Anadromous Fish Screen Program and the
         Metropolitan Water District of Southern California through
         the California Urban Water Agencies primarily funded the
         project.

VISUALS: B-roll or raw video footage will be available of the three
         old pumping plants, the Sacramento River and environmental
         habitat, and neighboring agricultural lands.

PARTICIPANTS:
         Kirk Rodgers, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of
         Reclamation; Michael Thabault, Assistant Field Supervisor,
         U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Michael E. Aceituno,
         Supervisory Fishery Management Specialist, National Marine
         Fisheries Service; Patrick Wright, Director, CALFED Bay-Delta
         Program; Glen Peterson, Vice Chairman, Metropolitan Water
         District of Southern California; John Garner, Director and
         landowner, PCGID; and David Guy, Executive Director, Northern
         California Water Association