Wages Creek supports coho salmon and the District’s bypass flows were set up to correspond to annual cycles of fish migration in accordance with state guidelines (DFG and NMFS 2002). In 2002, the District faced water shortage issues when winter rains came late and it was not able to meet its bypass flows despite a back-up groundwater well. The District’s water system consists of a water right on Wages Creek where a wet well and pump move water through a direct filtration system to a tank above the community’s Fire Department buildings. From storage, water is gravity fed to the community distribution system, which was served by a 100,000 g redwood water tank constructed in the late 1970s.