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Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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Dave Sabo (BOR) addressed the Klamath County
Commissioners this morning during their weekly
work session.
5/17/05 by
Barb Hall, Klamath Bucket Brigade
(Sabo)
was asked by the Commissioners about the extra
water spilling out of UKL and was it being counted
towards the required 100,000 acre feet water bank.
He stated: "Yes. By the end of May, we'll have
supplied 70,000 acre feet through Iron Gate Dam."
He also said that the east side has surprised
him. There is so much water coming down Lost
River that they have ramped up the flows in the
Diversion Canal to 700 cfs flowing from Lost River
to the Klamath River. BOR will be checking on the
water levels in Gerber and Clear Lake next week.
They are five days behind in posting the flows to
Klamath Water Data
Recent Hydrology Data
Commissioner Brown asked him about pumpers and
told Sabo that he'd heard that even with all the
extra rain, some water bank pumpers are pumping.
Sabo thanked Brown for the information and stated
that he'd have his staff go out next week and zero
out all the pumpers meters. They will not be paid
for any water pumped during this series of storms.
Commissioner Elliott discussed the fact the UKL is
90,000 acre feet above it's level a year ago and
Sabo agreed - saying we're in much better shape
right now then he thought we'd be. He got the
NRCS report yesterday and the report didn't force
him to change the year type from "dry" to below
average. He said he was worried about this latest
report and all the rain we've been getting. The
weather report for this week is calling for
another big storm to hit tomorrow.
Barb Hall, Klamath Bucket Brigade
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