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 Brian PosewitzWaterWatch of OregonThis would be a relatively large alternate reservoir. The watermaster and ODFW comments indicate the reservoir would injure existing water rights (including an instream water right) and pose a significant detrimental impact to existing fishery resources if it stores water that would otherwise reach the East Fork of the Nehalem River at any time from May through October (watermaster) or May through November (ODFW). (As a side note, any permit premised on a limited storage season needs to include the shorter of the two recommended storage seasons to avoid both injury and significant detrimental impact of existing fishery resources.) The only way to prevent storage outside of the recommended limited storage seasons is to require the applicant to measure all water collected in the reservoir outside the storage season (because some inevitably well be) and to release an equivalent amount. Otherwise the reservoir will in fact be storing water outside the limited storage season (because rain will fall and runoff will occur, even if the reservoir is outside of a defined stream channel). If that cannot be done without harming water quality (as ODFW suggests), the permit should be denied. Thank you for considering these comments.