Hydrology and hydrodynamics on the Sacramento River near the Fremont Weir, California—Implications for juvenile salmon entrainment estimates

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of the data, and the writing of this report. Appreciation is extended to Curt Schmutte (California Department of Water Resources, retired) and managers at the Metropolitan Water District for recognizing the critical need and generating contractor's funding support for this effort. To the California Department of Water Resources program manager, Brett Harvey, and the California Department of Water Resources contracting manager, Jacob McQuirk, thank you for dealing with all of the contracting and purchasing issues associated with doing things on short notice and helping to guide the experiment and facilitating interagency coordination and communication. Ted Sommer, at the California Department of Water Resources, provided insightful comments on the initial draft proposal for this work and, along with Brett Harvey, helped guide the adaptive management of the study. These experiments involved many dedicated and talented people who worked in the field under challenging conditions-bad weather and high water, in this case. None of the results from this study would be possible without the heroic efforts of the fish-tagging and release teams, led by Marty Liedtke, and the instrument programming, deployment, and recovery teams, led by Chris Vallee; all are gratefully acknowledged.