Federal water purveyors scrambling to reduce the potential of flooding this winter are about to send water flowing through South San Joaquin Irrigation District canals that normally dry up in October.The water will flow all the way through district canals and spill out into the San Joaquin River at French Camp and Little John Creek north of Manteca.Water levels on the Stanislaus River will continue to run unseasonably high with flows increasing even more at times over the next 33 days.It is all part of a plan to increase storage in New Melones Reservoir by Nov. 1 without killing spawning native fish on the Stanislaus River or imperiling levee work the state is currently performing southwest of Manteca.New Melones - which holds 2,419 million acre feet of water - was at 2,065 acre feet as of Wednesday at midnight. The goal is to get New Melones down to 1.9 million acre feet by Nov. 1Lowering the level of water in New Melones is critical to reduce the prospect of flooding southwest of Manteca along the Stanislaus and San Joaquin rivers as well as in the Delta. The water level was lower than 1.9 million acre feet in the early part of December 1996 when extremely heavy early winter snowpack fell.