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Watershed
Partnership endorses water settlement
By
TY BEAVER
H&N
Staff Writer
Another
The
board of directors of the Klamath Watershed Partnership said it wants to
see the concerns of irrigators off the Klamath Reclamation Project
addressed and will do what it can to aid that effort, but otherwise
endorses the agreement.
“We
wanted to do it as a group because the settlement is going to provide a
lot for conservation,” said Andrew Stuedli, partnership board
chairman.
Released Jan. 15, the agreement calls for a variety of
projects and actions to allocate water between Basin communities,
including dam removal. Money to help pay for purchase of private land
for the Klamath Tribes and establishment of a stable power rate for
irrigators also are included.
The partnership , which seeks to preserve the
Basin’s natural resources, is the latest group to approve of the
agreement. Its board includes landowners and tribal members.
Four area city councils — Merrill, Malin, Chiloquin
and Tulelake — also voted to support it as well as organizations such
as Klamath County Economic Development Association.
Stuedli acknowledged that there is concern about how
off-Project irrigators would be impacted by the agreement, and said he
wants to see how negotiations provided for in Section 16 of the document
address those issues.
Side
Bar
Opponents
to host speaker
The
Klamath Basin Alliance, a group that opposes the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement, will host speaker Philip Brendale at
Brendale,
a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, will discuss the restoration agreement
and its provision that provides money to help the Klamath Tribes
purchase the 90,000-acre Mazama Tree Farm. His wife, Sandra, also will
speak. The grange is on the corner of
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