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Reservations
The board worked to arrange a
meeting between off- and on-Project
irrigators and the Klamath Tribes in the
weeks following January’s release of the
Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. The
Tribes never agreed on terms for the
meeting and representatives for
on-Project irrigators pulled out when
they learned the Tribes weren’t going to
participate.
Irrigator seeks water meeting
Klamath County
commissioners may again try to
facilitate a meeting among off- and
on-Project irrigators and Klamath Tribes
about their difference over a proposed
water settlement agreement.
Tom Mallams, an
irrigator off the Klamath Reclamation
Project and a representative of the
Klamath Off-Project Water Users, asked
the board to try and arrange a meeting.
Efforts toward a similar meeting fell
through earlier this year.
Commissioners
said they had reservations about trying
for another meeting, including what
groups to involve in the discussion, and
how to address those who claim they
aren’t represented by anyone but
themselves.
“What we’ve
heard is that we have a thousand
different voices,” Commissioner
John Elliott said.
Mallams said a meeting is
necessary to work out problems his group
has with the agreement, specifically in
regard to water and power.
“We’re not so hardnosed we
can’t compromise. We’ve been
compromising all along,” he said.
More discussion
Commissioner Bill Brown said
he was disappointed the original meeting
fell through, and he thinks further
discussion with the county serving as a
neutral party could be beneficial.
Unfortunately, commissioners
said, there’s no clear-cut way to
determine who should participate in
discussions. Commissioner Al Switzer
suggested people submit recommendations
for who should participate, while
Elliott suggested leasing the Ross
Ragland
Theater to accommodate every interested
group and individual.
The
commissioners agreed to bring up the
issue with its Natural Resources
Advisory Council in January.
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