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Bureau should not delay irrigation start
Klamath Falls Herald and News Letter to the Editor
March 22, 2009
   The Bureau of Reclamation’s decision to delay irrigation deliveries is not valid. It has had six months to fill the lake and it’s still a foot short. The old adage about being “close enough for government work” doesn’t cut it.

    When we start irrigation two weeks late, everything backs up.

    Purchases of seed, fertilizer, equipment and hired labor are put on hold. Yields on hay, grain, potatoes and pasture will suffer, making harvest late and subject to frost damage.

    By withholding water until May 1, demand will be high all summer, stressing canal banks and further delaying delivery.
 
    When water leaves Upper Klamath Lake, it has a 200-mile downhill run to the Pacific Ocean. At 2 1/2 miles per hour, it is gone and forgotten in about four days. We can’t get it back.

    Equate that to uncontrolled stimulus money: It soon loses its identity, we don’t see any benefit, and we’re stuck with the aftermath.

    Tens of millions of dollars will be lost to the local economy and with these hard times, farming may have been the only bright spot.

    Our county commissioners, state and federal representatives should band together and stop this madness. At the very least, we should open the headgates on April 1 per schedule, and force the Bureau to make a public display of closing them down again.

Warren Haught

Klamath Falls
 

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