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Officials approve Klamath water quality package; limits on pollution seen as key to revitalizing river and its fish

Posted by: Maven on September 9, 2010 at 8:23 am

From the Eureka Times-Standard:

“State regulators on Tuesday unanimously approved a series of measures meant to improve the often terrible water quality in the Klamath River.

The State Water Resources Control Board set limits on nutrients, algae and water temperature over the objection of the owner of four dams on the Klamath River. Pacificorp argued before the board in Sacramento Tuesday that the guidelines were unrealistic, unfeasible and based on flawed models.

The regulations — called Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs — were drafted by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s staff over the course of years. They come in response to the federal government’s listing of the river as impaired, because the water is too warm and polluted for salmon, for swimming and for tribal ceremonial uses. … “

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MORE COVERAGE: Read coverage from Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org: Water Board Adopts Pollution Limits for the Klamath Basin

September 9, 2010 · Filed Under Northern California

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