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Klamath River Dams Coming Down |
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Contributed by Jim Elliott
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
In a different response to the problems associated with four hydro-electric dams and other issues, and with over two years of closed-door negotiations, four hydroelectric dams now operating along a 480 kilometre piece of the Klamath River in southern Oregon are going to be removed (see map). The intent of the dam removal is to restore the runs of the river and return the now endangered salmon to the river. With this change, the water usage rights will need to be re-assigned in the region.
The negotiations were between farmers, American First Nations, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies.
"What we've come up with is a blueprint for how to solve the Klamath
crisis," Craig Tucker of the Karuk Tribe----which wants restoration of
the salmon runs once crucial to the tribal diet and culture. "We
wanted to put together a plan that keeps fishing and farm communities
whole."
Klamath River was once the
third-most productive salmon river on the West Coast. There have been
decades of misguided hatchery practices, overfishing, development and
the loss of habitat to dams, mining and logging. For these reasons and
others, the federal government will need to approve the dam removal
plan and up to the $400 million dollars to cover the costs of the
project. Then, if the dam owner, PacifiCorp, are willing to go along
with the plan, the dams could be removed as soon as 2015.
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