<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14px"><div class="" style="">http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_26610097/klamath-dam-owner-allots-water-feds-drought-mitigation?source=most_viewed <br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><h1 id="articleTitle" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 33px; white-space: normal !important; ">Klamath dam owner allots water to
feds for drought mitigation</h1><div id="articleSubTitle" class="" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; text-transform: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold !important; ">16,000 acre-feet of water from two reservoirs in Klamath Basin</div><div id="articleByline" class="" style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/20px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px; " class="">By Will Houston</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/20px
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border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></div><span class="" style="clear: both; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span></div></span><span fd-type="start" fd-id="default" class="" style=""></span><span fd-type="end" fd-id="default" class="" style=""></span></div><span fd-type="start" fd-id="default" class="" style=""></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">Dam owner and northwestern power giant PacifiCorp announced Thursday that it will allot 16,000 acre-feet of water from two of its Klamath Project reservoirs to the federal government over the next month to ease effects of drought on irrigators in the Klamath Basin and
possibly those of fish in the main stem Klamath River.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">The allotment was made as part of the company's August agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation to adjust operation of its Klamath project to make 20,000 acre-feet of reservoir water available. The extra water will help the bureau meet its mandate to ensure that the Upper Klamath Lake remains above its minimum water elevations required to benefit endangered and threatened fish as well as to extend irrigation water supplies.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important;
line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">"The government does control flows on the Klamath," PacifiCorp public affairs specialist Bob Gravely said. "What we've agreed to is to adjust our operations so that we're using less water than we normally would now for power generation, and in effect, they would return the water to the reservoirs later this fall when there is not such a need for it. ... We've agreed that this is an unusual year in there are lots of communities up and down the basin that are not doing so well because of the water shortage. We're just happy to make this small adjustment to contribute."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">The company already released 4,000 acre-feet to the Klamath River
in mid-September for the Yurok Tribe's Boat Dance ceremony.</div><div class="" style="text-align: left; display: block; width: 336px; "><div class="" style="text-align: left; "><span class="" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Bureau river operations manager Jason Cameron said the 16,000 acre-feet is now available, but may not be used.</span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times,
serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="">"How much of that will be utilized and where that water will go specifically has yet to be determined," he said. "There are ongoing discussions where that water would be used."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">Should the bureau end up retaining water in Upper Klamath Lake, Gravely said Siskiyou County residents will notice a decrease in water elevation in the Iron Gate dam reservoir and the Copco 1 dam reservoir. The reduction in water will result in less power generated by the dams, but Gravely said the Klamath project only makes up about 2 percent of total power generated by the company.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;
margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">After the ich parasite, also known as gill rot disease, was detected in the main stem Klamath River by Karuk Tribe fisheries biologists earlier this month, Karuk Tribe Klamath coordinator Craig Tucker said they are gathering more data to present to the bureau next week.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">"Everything is really happening in real time," he said. "Right now, the Karuk and Yurok fisheries guys are out catching fish and trying to figure out if the ich infections are getting worse, getting better, and where that is happening. ...The bureau has to
figure out how to balance the need to protect fish and what the demands are with the tribes with contractual obligations up there in the upper basin. From the bureau's perspective, they want something that will be legally defensible. What we don't think would be legally defensible is if there is another fish kill."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">Tucker said the tribe has not determined an amount it wants to request as data is still being gathered. Unlike the lower Klamath, which can receive flows from the Trinity Lake reservoir, he said the middle Klamath River does not have a large water supply it can draw from — and a cool water supply at that. Since ich infection can spread more easily in warmer water, Tucker added the shallow
reservoir water from Iron Gate dam may be too hot to help.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">"It's this balance of flows and also worrying about water temperature," he said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">PacifiCorp requested in on Sept. 23 that the bureau return 12,000 acre-feet by the end of November, but Cameron said that may have to wait.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11.326px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times,
serif !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " class="">"We have made it clear on the hydrology and the precipitation between now and then, all of the water may not be able to be returned until spring of next year," Cameron said. "If we're lucky, we'll get a little bit of wet weather. A great rain storm would solve all these problems. I think we have to be prepared to take management action if necessary to ensure the fish have enough cold water."</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>