Clear Lake
irrigation supply to be cut
Ty Beaver, H&N's staff reporter
July 3, 2009
Irrigators in the Langell
Valley and Horsefly irrigation districts will
see about half their water supply from Clear
Lake cut beginning July 7.
Kevin Moore,
spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s
Klamath Basin office, said the cutoff is because
of a water shortage at the lake caused by a lack
of precipitation during the water year.
Of the
26,000 irrigated acres in the two districts,
Moore said about 10,000 will
go without
water from the lake.
Moore said
the Bureau of Reclamation discussed the
possibility of a water shortage with the
affected irrigators earlier this year, and they
are prepared for it. The cutoff in those two
districts will not impact the rest of the
Klamath Reclamation Project.
Requests for
comment Thursday from the two irrigation
districts were not immediately returned.
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