Dredge lake to gain water storage space
We can solve our water problems and get paid for doing it.
Upper Klamath Lake is very shallow in most places. Dredging the lake in sections would not disturb the water flow down the river or the fish.
The sediment is topsoil, fertilizer and algae from the ranches and farms around the rivers and lake. It is probably the richest fertilizer possible and could be sold to pay for a big portion of the cost.
Why spend
millions of the taxpayers’ money to remove the
dams and flood parts of Northern California and
give thousands of acres of forestland away?
We need the electricity in the near future
as the American car companies will wake up and
realize that a car is only transportation and
probably only 80 percent have one or two people
per car.
Golf-cart-sized electric cars would be
sufficient, except on highways and bypasses. The
Bureau of Reclamation stated it could only use 8
feet of the water from the lake. Removing
sediment to make the lake 2 to 3 feet deeper
would increase storage by a large number of
acre feet.
The following officials were sent a letter
and I received letters and phone calls and they
thought dredging was of interest: State Rep.
Bill Garrard, State Sen. Doug Whitsett, U.S.
Rep. Greg Walden and then-U.S. Sen. Gordon
Smith.