Mealey's (February 22, 2017, 11:11 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 21 unanimously ruled that the United States had authority to implement a 2013 Klamath River flow augmentation release from an upstream dam to protect fish in the lower Klamath River and that the release did not violate the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) in doing so (San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority, et al. v. Kevin Haugrud, et al., Nos. 14-17493,14-17506, 14-17515 and 14-17539, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2924)....