‘Water bank’ drags river basin deeper into debt By Rebecca Clarren High Country News October 17, 2005 ‘Win-win’ water solution only worsens tension over scarce resource From her house near Klamath Falls, Ore., Kelly Holcomb loves to look out her kitchen window at the juniper-dotted mountains nearby and the vast green fields of the […]
PacifiCorp loses challenge of fish ladders over dams By Jeff Barnard Associated Press September 28, 2005 GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Salmon and steelhead would take back hundreds of miles of habitat above a series of hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River if they had fish ladders to get there, an administrative law judge found
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Profile: One of the West’s most dramatic water battles is heating up By Jeff Brady Weekend Edition Sunday, National Public Radio May 08, 2005 LIANE HANSEN, host: As summer nears, one of the West’s most dramatic water battles is heating up again. Four years ago, in the Klamath Basin region, along the Oregon-California border,
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A utility’s plan to end a longtime power subsidy could mean less water going to agriculture U.S. Water News Online March 01, 2005 Through sickness and health, drought and abundance, Klamath basin farmers have been wedded to dirt-cheap power for nearly nine decades. Electric pumps lift water from an aquifer, help pull it from
Officials Say Rules will Limit Groundwater Impacts By Dylan Darling Klamath Falls Herald & News October 28, 2004 Tapping into aquifers below the Klamath Basin is a Band-aid, but not a long-term solution, leading Oregon water officials said Thursday. But, they said, permits for pumping will flow. Dan Thorndike, chair of the Oregon Water
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By Jim Simon | Feb. 4, 1997 | Seattle Times Boeing arrived in the arid sagebrush country of Eastern Oregon 34 years ago with grand designs for a rocket-testing center. “Cape Canaveral West,” as some called it, never made it off the launching pad. But that failure has left the aerospace giant with a legacy
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By Paul Koberstein | Oct. 31, 1994 | High Country News Some irrigators get loose with the law. Hermiston, Oregon — Every summer, a 32-mile segment of the Umatilla River in northeast Oregon goes bone dry — but it’s not, as one might expect, the product of drought on the arid, windswept prairie. Irrigators take
