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and other stakeholders around and downstream of Hinckley Reservoir can also be notified
when changes to discharge rates from the reservoir, or into the Nine Mile Feeder,
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conditions change rapidly, the Canal Corporation cannot and does not guarantee the
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occurs and the time it is reported to the Canal Corporation and posted to the Canal
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