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Oregon Governor Kate Brown's letter to
Interior Secretary Haaland urging her to use
drought money to permanently retire Klamath
Project farmland
(because the
government is stealing our stored water to
use for other purposes.) 4/28/22
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Klamath Water Users Association response to
Gov. Brown 5/4/22: "...KWUA is
dismayed, however, by your letter's
unexpected recommendation that funding under
the Act be used to permanently retire
irrigation water rights in the Klamath
Project and effect a shift to dry land
farming...."
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KID response to Governor Brown's letter to
Interior Secretary Haaland, 5/4/22.
"...K.I.D. is concerned with your
suggestion for long-term solutions without
first engaging and discussing with local
representatives and governments responsible
for implementing such actions. Where we
specifically find issue is in the suggestion
that permanently idling some of the world’s
most productive farmland will be beneficial;
we believe this approach is overly
simplistic and short sighted as the world
population continues to grow and the need
for food security/stability is
increasing...Unfortunately, poor policy
which promotes removing water from the
former wetlands has (and continues to)
change weather patterns in the Klamath
watershed. Before agricultural modification
to the landscape, over 188,000 acres of
surface area was covered by water. This area
was once described as the Everglades of the
West...This situation has nothing to do with
drying up the Klamath River or interfering
or infringing upon water rights of
downstream tribes – this is simply about the
release of stored water that would not
otherwise be physically available but for
construction of a dam across the outlet of
Upper Klamath Lake" |
 Sheriff
wants statewide state of emergency over illegal
marijuana grows, H&N 5/23/22. "The
county estimates there could be as many as 2,000 grow
sites and 5,000 greenhouses just in California’s
northernmost county. Those grows can use as much as 3
million gallons of water per day in region dealing with
severe drought conditions..."
 Pacific
Power customers could see higher electricity bills,
H&N 5/19/22. "Pacific
Power is asking Oregon regulators to approve an
electricity rate hike that could increase residential
customers’ utility bills by as much as 14%. KBC
NOTE: So the states of Oregon and California are
paying millions of dollars to destroy our clean green
hydroelectric dams that supply power to 70,000
households, as well as flood control, water for fighting
wildfires which has saved towns, lakes, communities, and
ecosystems providing habitat for hundreds of species,
some endangered. Pacific Power said if they destroyed
the dams, our power rates would decrease. Some people
believed them.
Klamath Tribes sue federal government over water
releases to farmers, Capital Press
5/13/22. "...KWUA
says the anticipated 50,000 acre-foot Project allotment
represents no more than 5% of all the water that will be
used this season from Upper Klamath Lake. About 40% will
be sent down the Klamath River for ESA-listed salmon,
28% will be held in the lake for C’waam and Koptu and
27% will be lost to evaporation..." KBC NOTE:
Klamath Project irrigators store their irrigation water
in Upper Klamath Lake, causing the lake to be higher
than historically possible before the Klamath Project
was built. The highest sucker counts were when the lake
was lower, before the ESA mandated confiscating our
legally stored water.
Klamath Irrigation District's Final Water Management and
Conservation Plan 8/16/21, posted to KBC 5/7/22. "(The
KID WM and CP) captures a brief summary of our history
and discusses what we know about the present. Recent
conversations have indicated many are not aware of
Klamath Irrigation District's efforts to move towards a
more modern and efficient irrigation system. The first
step to the future is understanding our past and our
infrastructure design, then understanding our present
conditions....from there we can create a vision for the
future."
"Proposed date of submittal of an updated Water
Management Conservation plan to OWRD required in OAR
690-086-0225.6: The submittal of an updated plan in the
foreseeable future is unnecessary and should not be
required before 1 January 2035 or upon a Reclamation
directive consistent with our contract."
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2022 KPDRA
No Irrigation Program Announcement 5/6/22.Applications
are currently being accepted and the
application deadline is June 15, 2022.
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