<div dir="ltr"><div>I just wanted to say this petition goes to PacifiCorp and is cced to the water board. It says the KHSA supporters do not agree with the algaecides either and are trying to stop it also. People or media with questions about this have also been directed to supporters of the KHSA to show the effort is from both supports and non-supports of the agreement. There has been no insulting or exclusion of anyone. <br>
<br>This action has not gone through scientific or public analysis and urging people not to comment is not responsible. Furthermore the 401 cert needs to happen for dam removal to proceed regardless of how, and it is the only Clean Water Act process we have around the dams and toxic algae. A 401 and 402 permit is required to remove dams (I have copies of other dams dam removal 401 certs, if anyone wants to see them), takes along time to process, will show dam removal is the only possible option to address Clean Water Act violations in this case. The CEQA process can begin now regardless of how the dams come down and needs to address alternatives. <br>
<br> As for the algaecide permit from the regional water board last year, the board staff is the first to admit they had no time to provide real comments, or try to change the action, and they were not notified of timing. The coverage is not for this action but coverage under an outdated general permit that is being updated currently to address the lack of public involvement, and the water board was never sure should apply in this case due to health concerns and uncertainty about the effect of killing the algae on water quality. The permit and water quality standards were most likely violated last year and the water board is considering blocking this action so comments really help. <br>
<br>Personally, I have gone out of my way to show Clean Water action on this issue helps all involved, and the conspiracy theories presented are not truthful. The Clean Water Act and public health notifications are not voluntary and should not be political. <br>
<br>Thank you, <br></div>Regina <br><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:33 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:FISH1IFR@aol.com" target="_blank">FISH1IFR@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Colleagues.... </div>
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<div>Please do NOT repost the Hoopa Valley Tribe's anti-algaecide Petition
below. Anyone considering signing it should read it <u>very carefully</u> and
also understand that the Petition is to some degree merely a ruse perpetuated by
an employee of the Hoopa Valley Tribe to gather opposition against the Klamath
Settlement Agreements. In that respect, the Petition is somewhat of a Trojan
Horse, cleverly riding the algaecide issue for very different purposes, and has
drifted far from the point of opposing the use of algaecides in the river.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>The Petition is, in fact, highly deceptive!</strong></div>
<div><strong></strong> </div>
<div></div>
<div>Unfortunately, the Petition is far more about the Hoopa Valley Tribe's
efforts to gather support for its unique position <u>in opposition to the
Klamath Settlement Agreements</u> than it is about the algaecide issue. The
Petition insists, for instance, that it is "time for PacifiCorps to move forward
with needed Clean Water Act certification" in its pending Application before the
California State Water Board. What the Hoopa Valley Tribe does not tell you,
though, is that the current Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification
Application is NOT FOR DAM REMOVAL, it is for FULL DAM RELICENSING. And this
Application has <u>nothing whatsoever</u> to do with the experimental use of
algaecides -- which the Regional Water Board approved.</div>
<div> </div>
<div></div>
<div>Moving even one more step forward toward Klamath dam relicensing makes no
sense, given that PacifiCorp and nearly every other Klamath Basin major
stakeholder (<u>except</u> the Hoopa Valley Tribe) is working diligently through
the Klamath Settlement Agreements to remove these dams by 2020, not to relicense
them! The pending 401 Relicensing Application process is suspended while
Settlement Agreement efforts toward dam removal are being worked on. Forcing
PacifiCorp and the Water Board to instead move forward with the current 401
Certification process for relicensing is merely a devious way to try to sabotage
the KIamath Settlement Agreement, which the Hoopa Valley Tribe has
short-sightedly pledge itself to doing. The end result of such a process will
only be years of tangled and expensive litigation, <em>and may even be partial
or total relicensing!</em></div>
<div><em></em> </div>
<div></div>
<div>In short, this current Petition is <em>highly deceptive</em>, only
peripherally about algaecides, is based on a number of <em>false
assumptions</em>, and unfortunately has little to do, in the body of the
Petition, with what it is purported to be all about. </div>
<div> </div>
<div></div>
<div>Most people in the basin, including myself, strongly oppose more use of
algaecides in the river and would sign a Petition that was <u>only </u>about
that issue in a heartbeat. But deceptively using this one "hot-button issue" as
a ruse to sabotage a Settlement Agreement that the Yurok Tribe, Karuk Tribe,
Klamath Tribes, Humboldt County and more than 40 other major Klamath Basin
stakeholder groups have agreed to -- and which represents the most certain way
to get these four dams down within the shortest period of time --<em> does
everyone a great disservice! </em> Its authors should be ashamed of
themselves!</div>
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<div></div>
<div><font face="Arial" lang="0">=============================================<br>Glen H. Spain, NW
Regional Director<br>Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
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<div>In a message dated 6/14/2013 12:17:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:windhorse@jeffnet.org" target="_blank">windhorse@jeffnet.org</a> writes:</div>
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<div><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Papyrus">How about puting the petition on
line?</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Papyrus">Lots more would
sign!</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Papyrus">Jim</font></strong></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="mailto:tstokely@att.net" href="mailto:tstokely@att.net" target="_blank">Tom
Stokely</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us" href="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us" target="_blank">env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a>
</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:17
AM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] Redding.com:
Tribes,Pacificorp at odds over algae in Klamath River</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><a title="http://www.redding.com/news/2013/jun/12/tribes-pacificorp-at-odds-over-algae-in-klamath/" href="http://www.redding.com/news/2013/jun/12/tribes-pacificorp-at-odds-over-algae-in-klamath/" target="_blank">http://www.redding.com/news/2013/jun/12/tribes-pacificorp-at-odds-over-algae-in-klamath/</a> </div>
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<font color="#030000">Tribes, Pacificorp at odds over algae in Klamath
River</font></h1>
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By <a style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;COLOR:rgb(101,134,42);VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;TEXT-DECORATION:none;PADDING-TOP:0px" title="http://www.redding.com/staff/alayna-shulman/" href="http://www.redding.com/staff/alayna-shulman/" target="_blank">Alayna Shulman</a>
</li><li style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;COLOR:rgb(100,100,89);VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
<span style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px" title="2013-06-12T18:00:00-07:00">Posted June 12, 2013 at 6
p.m.</span></li></ul>
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<a style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;COLOR:rgb(101,134,42);VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;TEXT-DECORATION:none;PADDING-TOP:0px" title="http://www.redding.com/photos/2013/jun/12/81352/" href="http://www.redding.com/photos/2013/jun/12/81352/" target="_blank"><img src="cid:X.MA1.1371331982@aol.com" style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px" title="http://www.redding.com/photos/2013/jun/12/81352/" alt="http://www.redding.com/photos/2013/jun/12/81352/" height="407" width="607"></a>
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AP PHOTO/JEFF BARNARD</p>
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This Aug. 21, 2009, photo shows water trickling over an
algae-covered spillway at Copco 1 Dam on the Klamath River outside
Hornbrook. Regional Indian tribes are at odds with PacifiCorp over a plan to
kill toxic algae blooms in the Klamath River that critics say could cause a
whole other pollution problem in the Northern California
waterway.</p></div></div>
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Local
tribes are at odds with PacifiCorp over a plan to kill toxic algae blooms in
the Klamath River that critics say could cause a whole new pollution problem
in the already-controversial waterway.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.5em;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 1.5em;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
A
petition to stop the electricity giant’s plan to kill algae in the Siskiyou
County river with hydrogen peroxide-based “GreenClean Liquid” picked up some
2,000 signatures in its first week, said Regina Chichizola, a Hoopa Valley
tribe member who started the protest drive.</p>
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Chichizola
said she questions PacifiCorp’s study from its pilot run of the algae
program that killing the blooms with the substance doesn’t produce harmful
amounts of microcystin, a naturally occurring toxin.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.5em;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 1.5em;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
“I
feel like this shouldn’t be done on an experimental level,” Chichizola
said.</p>
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Toxins
in the river are problematic for both fishers and other recreation fans as
well as local tribes, Chichizola said, since they use the waterway for
sacred ceremonies.</p>
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But
PacifiCorp says it’s “inconceivable” the plan would cause any toxicity
problems.</p>
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“We
think it’s, frankly, irresponsible to be raising public health concerns over
something that is inconceivable — that this would cause health problems down
river, in the reservoir, anywhere,” said Bob Gravely, a spokesman for the
company.</p>
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Meanwhile,
the Karuk Tribe has entered into a conflict resolution process with
PacifiCorp over the plan, hoping to find a civil way to ease concerns it
could prove toxic.</p>
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“We
feel confident we’re going to work through this with PacifiCorp,” said Craig
Tucker, tribe spokesman.</p>
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The
Karuk Tribe even sent an in-depth letter to PacifiCorp rejecting some of the
analysis from the 2012 study based on what time of day it occurred and the
depth of the water, both of which can affect results, a water expert for the
tribe said.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.5em;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 1.5em;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
While
Tucker said the data from a pilot project last year is up for
interpretation, it’s still concerning that the plan includes unnatural
substances.</p>
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“It’s
a tough pill for tribal communities to swallow because...chemicals are
inconsistent with tribal cultural beliefs,” he said.</p>
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Gravely
pointed out that the 2012 study results indicated that microcystin wasn’t a
problem. This year’s study would include a screen so that a more isolated
pocket of water could be treated without being diluted, he said.</p>
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Nonetheless,
Clayton Creager, senior scientist for the North Coast Regional Water Quality
Control Board, said the board has some worries as well and is examining the
permit that allows PacifiCorp to use the algae-killer.</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.5em;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 1.5em;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
“We’re
evaluating the status of their current permit,” he said. “It’s because we
have specific concerns and we’ve received lots of complaints.”</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;LINE-HEIGHT:1.5em;BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 1.5em;PADDING-LEFT:0px;OUTLINE-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;BORDER-TOP-WIDTH:0px;BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH:0px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px">
The
U.S. Department of the Interior recommended in April that four dams on the
river be torn down to protect local tribes and fish species, and Chichizola
said that’s a safe way to prevent algae, since much of it originates from
the dams.</p>
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In
2010, Indian tribes, farmers, salmon fishermen and conservation groups
signed historic agreements calling for sharing water in dry years and the
removal of the four dams to open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat shut
off for a century. PacifiCorp, which owns the dams, agreed to the removal
rather than pay millions of dollars for fish ladders and other
improvements.</p>
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In
addition to raising concerns over the algaecide plan, Chichizola blasted
PacifiCorp for not soliciting public comment on the plan, despite its
significance to the public.</p>
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“We’re
concerned mainly with the people who are using the river, and we’re
concerned with the complete lawlessness around this action,” Chichizola
said, saying the plan has turned the Klamath into a “corporately controlled
river.”</p>
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But
Gravely said his company notified Siskiyou County officials and also ran a
notice in a local newspaper.</p>
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“This
has all been done as part of a very public process, and in accordance with
every regulation that applies to it,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what
they’re saying didn’t happen or wanted to happen...we made our required
notices. We feel like we have a responsibility to address these
issues.”</p></div></span></div>
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