Three irrigation districts are blaming the federal Bureau of Reclamation for failing to adjust water releases from New Melones Reservoir to protect spawning Chinook salmon in the Stanislaus River.The districts contend the federal agency failed to heed their repeated warnings to more aggressively reduce reservoir storage throughout the year. As a result high flows during the fall spawning season between Knights Ferry and Orange Blossom appear to have wiped out more than 10 percent of the salmon eggs on the Stanislaus River based on work conducted by a team of fishery research scientists with the Oakdale-based FISHBO firm.Nearly continuous high water flows during October wiped out the eggs of the “species of concern” under the federal Endangered Species Act. The eggs were destroyed in at least 23 redds which are areas where salmon nest and spawn.“We have been warning the Bureau since mid-summer,” noted Steve Knell, general manager of the Oakdale Irrigation District.