Trouble In Dam Removal Paradise – Kiewit Has Pulled-Out of Klamath River Dam Project
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California Globe ^
| April 10, 2024 | William Simpson
April 9 Letter from FERC to KRRC, ‘… Kiewit has aborted the Iron Gate Development drilling program in its entirety…’ .. This is part of a series about the Klamath Dam Removal project in Siskiyou County. The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold as
necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish.” The dams are part of the Klamath project, a series of seven dams built in the 1910’s and 1920’s in the Klamath Basin to bring electricity and agricultural water mitigation for Southern Oregon and Northern California,...
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Klamath River and Dam Removal Crises Continues with CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Failure
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California Globe ^
| April 1, 2024 | WILLIAM SIMPSON
On Tuesday March 26th, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors declared a local State of Emergency in regard to the adverse impacts of the Klamath Dam removal project affecting the Klamath River.
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Siskiyou Co. Board Declares State of Emergency over Klamath River Dam Removal Project
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California Globe ^
| March 27, 2024 | By William Simpson
Tuesday, March 26th 2024 was a long and contentious day at the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors (‘BOS’) meeting. This
board meeting followed the March 5th, Siskiyou County Health Department advisory warning that people should not enter the Klamath River or drink the water. “SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — Residents should not be in or drink water from the Klamath River due to high levels of arsenic, lead and aluminum, the Siskiyou County Environmental Health said today.” Activists favoring dam removal seem to be hypnotically willing to look past any and all unintended adverse impacts that have unfolded and are further...
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Young salmon perish going through Klamath River dam slated for removal in Siskiyou County
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Redding Record ^
| 3/7/2024 | Damon Arthur
...A large number of young hatchery-raised salmon that were released into the Klamath River recently were killed when they passed through a tunnel near the base of the Iron Gate Dam on the river...
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Klamath Dam Removal - It’s an Environmental Disaster
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California Globe ^
They purposefully made a disaster and are leaving taxpayers and the locals to clean up their mess
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Klamath Dams Down: Will Ranches Survive?
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California Globe ^
| February 23, 2024 | Theodora Johnson
If 10 million cubic yards of sediment were to settle in the river, we’d see the equivalent of six lanes of freeway piled eight feet deep for nearly 100 miles. There
are 192 river miles below the lowest dam, Iron Gate. In total, the river is approximately 250 miles long. For most of February, turbidity levels in the Klamath River hovered around 500 to 1,000 units over a stretch of at least 100 miles, according to U.S. Geological Survey measurements.2 These turbidity levels are 10 to 20 times what juvenile salmon can survive, according to a 2001 research report by...
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Dam Deception – Saving The Klamath River
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Siskiyou News ^
| February 19, 2024 | William Simpson II
The Klamath River dams have been unplugged. And
with the water that was drained from Copco and Iron Gate Lakes came millions of tons of polluted sediments. Now the remaining polluted clay-mud sediments that have been deposited on the lake bottoms are in plain view. The rapid unplanned release of fresh water from the lakes, over a very short period of time, has carried massive amounts of polluted sediments into the main-stem of the Klamath River.
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River of Death – Collapse of the Klamath River Ecosystem
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Siskiyou News ^
| Captain Bill Simpson
Let’s face facts; some people are getting richer off the removal of the Klamath River dams. Glen
Spain member [formerly] of Klamath River Renewal Corp. ‘KRRC’ board and fisherman’s advocate said “Economics Not Salmon Is the Reason PacifiCorp is Removing the Dams” It is now estimated by some experts that the total direct cost for the Klamath River dam removal project, will reach $800-million dollars, not the $450-million cost estimate projected over tens years ago. And then we have the costs related to the liabilities that are already arising from what is seen by many as an ill-fated project. According...
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Deconstruction of Klamath River dam underway
by Jason Turk
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KRCR news ^
| Sun, June 25th 2023, 3:30 PM PDT | Jason Turk
), crews are currently deconstructing Copco No. 2, which is the smallest of the four hydroelectric dams set to be removed from the river by the end of next year.
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Flooding, landslides and debris flows expected in the Klamath Forest ahead of storm
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Krcr ^
| Monday, December 26th 2022 | by Adam Robinson
Due to the incoming warm, heavy rain expected to reach the area these next couple of weeks, US Forest Service officials in the Klamath National Forest are warning locals to be prepared for the worst. Officials
said there will be a heightened risk of flooding, landslides, and debris flow due to the incoming weather. The USFS expects creeks flowing out of recent fire areas to be the first to run turbid.
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The world’s largest dam removal will touch many lives in the Klamath River Basin
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Open.org ^
| Cassandra Profita
Residents in both of the counties surrounding the dams slated for removal have voted overwhelmingly over the past decade in favor of keeping the dams in place because of the benefits they offer and the potential for dam removal to create problems with flooding .
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Tribal, federal leaders cheer Klamath River dam removals
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The Associated Press ^
| December 8, 2022
HORNBROOK, Calif. (AP) — Tribal, state and federal officials on Thursday cheered a plan for the largest dam removal in U.S. history along the Klamath River near the California-Oregon line as a major step toward restoring a once-thriving watershed that tribal communities have long relied on. “Clean
water, healthy forests and fertile land made the Klamath River Basin and its surrounding watershed a home to tribal communities, productive agriculture, and a place where abundant populations of migratory birds, suckers, salmon and other fish could thrive,” U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said. The removal of four dams along the river will...
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California governor asks Warren Buffett to back dam removal ( Klamath River - hydro-electric green energy )
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ap ^
| July 30, 2020 | Robert Jablon,
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appealed directly to investor Warren Buffett to support demolishing four hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border ... which would be the largest dam removal in U.S. history. The
dams are owned by PacificCorp, an Oregon-based utility that is part of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. conglomerate. The $450 million project would reshape California’s second-largest river and empty giant reservoirs. ... Newsom supports a 2016 agreement under which PacifiCorp would transfer its federal hydroelectric licenses for the dams to a nonprofit coalition, the Klamath River Renewal Corp., that was formed to oversee the demolition. ......
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Following Huge Protest, Oregon Farmers Get Big Win, Thanks to Trump Administration [ Klamath ]
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PJmedia ^
| JUN 15, 2020 | Jeff Reynolds
A 29-mile convoy through southern Oregon, followed by a rally, followed by a direct appeal to the White House, and a decision by the Department of the Interior. That’s what it took to open up irrigation water for farmers in southern Oregon last week. It
all started with one of the biggest protests you probably didn’t even notice. In a June 9 press release, the Bureau of Reclamation announced that it had restored the 140,000-acre-feet of water originally promised to farmers in the Klamath Basin at the beginning of the season: Today, the Bureau of Reclamation confirmed the 2020 water...
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White House as Originator and Promoter of Klamath Basin Agreements
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Canada Free Press ^
| 09/07/16 | Lawrence Kogan
Klamath Basin Agreement proponents have lost not only their grip on reality, but also their traditional American common sense neighborly values Klamath Basin groups claiming to represent the majority of Klamath Basin residents, such as the Klamath Water Users Association (“KWUA”) and the Family Farm Alliance (“FFA”), have long perpetuated the lie
that the Klamath Basin Agreements will benefit ALL Basin residents. The first two of these agreements had been initially proposed during the Bush administration in an effort assist Klamath irrigators resolve longstanding science and water delivery disputes with environmentalists and tribal communities. Now, these and several additional new...
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Klamath Basin agreement removes four dams restores fisheries
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NOAA ^
| 6 April 2016 | NOAA
April 6, 2016 In one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation, state and federal officials, along with private industry, have agreed to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, potentially returning the river’s historic fish runs and advancing their recovery. The
agreement, signed today by the governors of California and Oregon, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, and the president and CEO of Pacific Power, was characterized as an initial step in the long-term goal of restoring the river basin. The agreement supports efforts to recover fisheries and sustain the region’s farmers and ranchers,...
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Klamath River dams moving toward removal despite congressional barriers ( CA & OR )
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Los Angeles Times ^
| Feb. 3, 2016 | Bettina Boxall
California, Oregon and the federal government are working on a way around congressional barriers to the removal of hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. The states, the U.S. Interior Department and the owner of the dams, PacifiCorp, announced Tuesday that they have agreed in principle to pursue removal through the federal dam
relicensing process. The move comes after a complex deal to decommission four hydroelectric dams and restore portions of the historic salmon river fell apart when Congress failed to act on a crucial piece of the pact by a Dec. 31 deadline. Republican members of Congress and local elected...
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Klamath Basin: Water pact crumbles in Congress after years of work ( Oregon & California )
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The Oregonian ^
| December 19, 2015 | Jeff Mapes
The agreement never sold well either in solidly Republican Klamath County or on the California side of the border, where the idea of removing dams and tilting the scale toward environmental and tribal purposes was regarded suspiciously. "They
try to say the community is for it, and it's not true at all," said Klamath County Chairman Tom Mallams, noting that almost all successful candidates in the area run against the agreement. ... Among western Republicans, the idea of removing the dams has been viewed with great suspicion, even though the aged structures are relatively small hydroelectric producers, aren't used for...
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OREGON - BLM Hosts Open House in Klamath Falls on Western Oregon Draft RMP-EIS
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BlueRibbon Coalition ^
| May 20, 2015
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Klamath Falls Field office of the Lakeview District will be hosting an open house to learn about the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Western Oregon. The open house meeting will be held the evening of May 26, 2015, from 5:00 pm to
8:00 pm at the Shilo Inn Suites Hotel located at 2500 Almond Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon. BLM employees will be on hand to answer questions, provide information and listen to concerns. There will also be a demonstration on how to use the interactive maps and other online resources...
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Officials searching for missing house in Klamath Falls [OR]
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kobi5.com ^
| 02-26-2015 | Staff
Klamath Falls, Ore. --- A house is missing and deputies with the Klamath County sheriff's office are looking for it! Sheriff
Frank Skrah made the announcement during a press conference around noon on Tuesday, February 24th, "We had a complete home stolen. This isn't a motor home, this isn't a mobile home and this is a 'home.'" When asked if the home was already on wheels Skrah responded, "No, it was not, it was on the foundation you see it on now." The 1,200 square foot home from the Sprague River area was reported missing on Tuesday. The home was...
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