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Local counties work to call attention to water crisis with letter to President Biden
Leaders from Siskiyou, Modoc and Klamath counties came together to approve letters that will be sent to congress and the president, urging action regarding water usage rights.
Posted: May 7, 2021 7:23 PM
Posted By: Alicia Rubin
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TULELAKE, Calif. The Siskiyou and Modoc County’s Board of Supervisors and Klamath County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to send a letter to 10 lawmakers that represent their regions and a letter to President Biden to bring attention to the water crisis impacting Southern Oregon and Northern California.
The letter begins stating that the area is at the beginning of a disastrous water year where the Bureau of Reclamation has announced 33-thousand acre-feet of available irrigation supply from Upper Klamath Lake, explaining that is less than 10% than what s needed for farmers.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to lead the Department of Interior, making her the first Native American to hold the position.
The Interior Secretary is the federal government’s principal agency that deals with Indian Country, making Haaland’s nomination a gamechanger for tribal nations in the U.S.
In addition to the country’s nearly 600 federally recognized tribes, Haaland would manage more than 100 million acres of wilderness, more than 400 National Park sites and nearly 600 wildlife refuges. She’d also oversee the Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the protection of endangered species, and the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates federal irrigation projects like the Klamath Project.
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:15 PM click to enlarge Thomas Dunklin Irongate Dam on the upper Klamath River is one of four hydroelectric dams now slated to be removed in 2023. Once again, a hard-fought accord to remove four hydroelectric dams choking the lower Klamath River has been resuscitated, a group of stakeholders announced in a press conference Tuesday. The agreement, which is more than a decade in the making and would result in one of the largest dam removal efforts in the world and the largest river restoration project in U.S. history, is back on after stakeholders were able to coax the dams’ owner the Berkshire Hathaway owned PacifiCorp Power back into the agreement after a federal ag