Posted on 05/17/2021 1:48:36 PM PDT by dynachrome
The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year.
In what is shaping up to be the worst water crisis in generations, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said it will not release water this season into the main canal that feeds the bulk of the massive Klamath Reclamation Project, marking a first for the 114-year-old irrigation system. The agency announced last month that hundreds of irrigators would get dramatically less water than usual, but a worsening drought picture means water will be completely shut off instead.
The entire region is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to federal monitoring reports, and Oregon’s Klamath County is experiencing its driest year in 127 years.
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So they’re going to build new dams?
Didn’t think so.
They’re probably rigging the data just like they do with covid. Fix the numbers to make it look worse than it is to save the planet.
Our own Jeff Head fought for us 20 ish years ago, on this battlefield.
ping
next year will be worsester ..
Oh but they’ve spent the last 20 years preparing,,,,,NOT
I always wonder at the diversion of the Truckee River from Pyramid Lake, which has caused that Indian reservation lake to drop more than 83 feet. When will that theft be recognized, stopped, and reversed?
When you mess with Mother Nature......
I am familiar with the area. Years ago homesteading was allowed and the new farmers and the federal government drained and diked tens of thousands of acres of wetlands.
Those wetlands acted as a sponge in drought years, holding the surrounding mountain runoff and keeping minimum flows into the Klamath River.
The farmers got rich on the fertile soil.
Now a natural drought is making that farmland too dry for the crops they had been raising and they may have to switch to arid land crops that are less profitable.
I'm not sure who is winning, but the government sees us as losers.
Just wait for fire season.
Tough for all in this watershed area. Pray to God that He sends some major rain storms over the area this summer and a lot of snow in the next winter. A lot depends on the currents in the Pacific Ocean along the NW coast on our US.
Note to farmers, when it comes to getting water in an emergency you will be last inline because there are not enough of you to outvote the cities and towns. They will stave later or pay more for produce but that is another problem for another day..
*** Our own Jeff Head fought for us 20 ish years ago, on this battlefield. ***
He (and his dog) marched w/us in Austin, too. Good Guy who was treated badly by some here as he didn’t pass the religious purity test.
I have no use for those kind of jerks then or now.
or hatcheries
Stop growing water-intensive crops like almonds
“Relocate the farmers?”
They spent all the relocation money on illegals.
Stop growing water-intensive crops like almonds
my buddies 600 acres is all drip. Thats gotta save a ton more water than how he use to water.
Jeff Head was one of the best and most capable warriors on our side. Hated by the purists because he was a Mormon. John Browning fit that description too back in the day.
also, during the wet years we had recently, it was great to watch all that water wash down the american river. Sure would be great to have Auburn Dam to hold a lot of that valuable water.
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