The sick part about all this is that if there were real leaders in Klamath County, they'd quickly see that the right thing to do is organize a public utility district, and take over the dams and run them for the benefit of the Basin. Instead we see Sheeple collaborating in the de-industrialization of America while skimming off some chump change.
A very rough back of napkin estimate on the additional impact to tax revenue, property values, jobs, recreation, environmental costs over 40 years is about $600 million. None of this was included in the "government study."
Iconoclast, none of these dams are in Klamath County. Most are in Siskiyou. We do not want a separate utility bacause we would be too small an entity to make any sort of cost effective deals on the purchase of power. Since deregulation in California, it would have been a very unstable situation. We have already been down that road before when several cities and Del Norte attempted to form a JPA to take over PacPower's CA service area. The figures did not pencil out and we would have ended up with an extremely expensive utility system. The County took action against formation of a separate utility and won.