Upper Basin stakeholders, and WAPA in particular, were against the High Flow Experiment (HFE) plan–the next one was not conducted until 2003. (Potochnik) Some of their fears were assuaged when the same positive beach-building results were obtained the second time with less water than was released in the first HFE. Still, the third HFE was not conducted until 2008. (Around 2008, the nomenclature changed from “Beach Habitat Building Flow” to “High Flow Experiment”)