When Shasta Dam was designed to be raised in the future for added capacity. ‘Sacred’ areas now prevent that. The flow changes of the Klamath at Seiad could be seen to rise and fall as Iron gate ran turbines for Pacific Power and Light.
Now the river has flatlined and the smart people decided to put the estimated 17 million cubic yards of sediment down river. The Fish Police banned gold dredging because they claimed sediment killed fish. I could go on for a week.
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/JudgeKaster/Suppose_adamFrighteningTale050523.htm
Friends that worked the chestnut orchard next door moved up river to Klamath River (the town). Karan said today that the stench from the sediments were literally sickening. The river runs dark (baby shit brown). The fish will be toast for years. There’s a turbidity sensor at the Seiad gage that doesn’t work. A nickel says it’s saturated with muck.