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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>DAM OPERATIONS / <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">KLAMATH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">RIVER BASIN</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font></b></strong><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Klamath people tell feds dams must go </span></font></b></strong><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><strong><b><font
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Times-Standard - 6/23/04</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>By <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John Driscoll</st1:PersonName>,
staff writer</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The time
is now to consider bringing down dams on the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place>
and breath life back into its fishery, dozens of speakers told the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>More than
200 people packed a large hotel conference room, all adamant that Portland,
Ore.,-based PacifiCorp properly weigh its effects on the river. Most at the
public hearing insisted the small amount of electricity produced by the
facilities doesn't match the benefits restored salmon fisheries would have. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"This
is wrong, and this is a chance to right that wrong," said Yurok Tribal
Chairman Howard McConnell. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>PacifiCorp,
a division of Scottish Power, is seeking a 50-year license for Iron Gate, Copco
I and Copco II, J.C. Boyle, Keno and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Link</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> dams. All told, the
dams generate 150 megawatts of electricity -- enough to supply 70,000 homes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>McConnell
pointed out that despite the dams, many on the Yurok Reservation are without
power. He said PacifiCorp has failed to do the most basic studies on the dams'
impacts to the river and its people. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
license for the dams expires in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>FERC will
determine the range of issues PacifiCorp must analyze. The agency said it hopes
to have a draft environmental impact statement done in July 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
lowermost dam, <st1:place w:st="on">Iron Gate</st1:place>, stops salmon from
reaching historic spawning grounds in the upper river. Despite protest from
American Indian tribes and fishermen, PacifiCorp has opted not to consider
building fish ladders, opting only to look at trucking fish around the dams.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
company has also resisted the idea of removing any of the dams, though lower
river advocates, the National Research Council, and the California Energy
Commission, among other groups, have encouraged such an evaluation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Nancy
Stark, aid to California Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, read a statement
asking FERC to demand an analysis of decommissioning all the dams. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>PacifiCorp
has proposed plans to improve whitewater rafting, fishing and recreation at its
facilities, and said it's open to exploring oxygenating water in the often
fetid Iron Gate Reservoir.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Yurok
elder Richard Myers told the commission staff that the fish in the Klamath
can't afford another 50 years of dams. The past few years, which have seen
major die-offs of both adult and juvenile fish, have been troubling, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"We
need to pray and make these men change their minds," Myers said, urging
PacifiCorp to remove its dams. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>A number
of speakers talked about the devastating impacts the dams and other problems on
the Klamath have had on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">North</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> communities. The
commercial salmon fishery in Northern California and <st1:place w:st="on">Southern
Oregon</st1:place> is all but closed in an effort to protect the Klamath's
ailing stocks. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Eureka</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> commercial fisher Marge Salo said FERC
shouldn't need an 80-pound document to "do the right thing."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Salo said
coastal communities are dying, while her boat is tied up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"I
resent it," she said. "I really do."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>By
deadline, dozens more still had not addressed the commission staff. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
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Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Consultant, California Trout, Inc.</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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