Tulelake
Irrigation District, Basin Improvement District vote in
favor
By TY BEAVER
H&N
Staff Writer
February 4, 2010
Three more groups
have voted to support the Klamath Basin Restoration
Agreement.
Support from
Tulelake Irrigation District and Klamath Basin
Improvement District means that the irrigation districtsrepresenting the
bulk of the Project’s irrigators and land are now behind
the document.
Klamath Water and
Power Agency, which would have a role in implementing
the agreement’s water and power programs, also is on
board.
The restoration
agreementaims
to resolve conflict s over water in the Klamath River
watershed.
It would involve
removing four K lamath River hydroelectric dams as well
as conducting fish habitat restoration and other work
with about $1 billion in federal funding over 10 years.
The
draft
Stakeholders
released a final draft of the document in early January,
and they and their constituents have until Tuesday to
decide whether to support or reject it.
Other support
Two other irrigation districts — Klamath
Irrigation District and Klamath Drainage District —
earlier voted to support the restoration agreement,
along with the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath tribes, and the
government of Humboldt County in California.
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