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Oregon governor seeks aid for farmers ahead of water deal

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 am

From the Silicon Valley Mercury News:

“About 1,300 farmers in a Klamath Basin irrigation project are waiting to hear whether drought conditions will leave enough water to plant crops this year without help from a landmark agreement designed to share scarce water between fish and farms.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski is headed to Klamath Falls on Tuesday to be briefed by federal authorities on what is being done to allow irrigation of 200,000 acres along the Oregon-California border while meeting federal requirements for protected fish.

Even if some flexibility can be found to help threatened suckers in Upper Klamath Lake and coho salmon in the Klamath River, “it is likely that drought conditions will require significant reduction of irrigation deliveries to the farming community,” Kulongoski wrote in a letter Wednesday to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Without some good spring rains, as much as 80 percent of the Klamath Reclamation Project could be without water this year, said Greg Addington of the Klamath Water Users Association. … “

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March 5, 2010 · Filed Under Northern California

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