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Uncle Sam wants your water
Guest Opinion
By Anthony Intiso, Yreka
In recent weeks if you have been reading this
newspaper you have seen articles and opinions in favor of
removing the dams. Citing all sorts of FALSE economic and
scientific data, all based on biased reports. (1) There is a
factual report by the Environmental Protection Agency,
(dated 07-01-09) that states their testing showed no toxic
levels of algae in the Klamath River or behind the dams. (2)
A report from Calif. Water Board recognizing that the source
of the high TMDL level is natural and comes out of Oregon,
(done in Feb. of this year) and (3) a report from Federal
Wildlife biologist, Warren Barton Everman, PhD that there
were no ocean going Salmon in the Klamath Basin or above the
present day location of Copco Dam, (done in 1897), report is
available from the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
That is not the worst of it folks. The SECRET
AGREEMENT, (Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement), (KBRA) is
the document that will take away everyone's water rights in
the entire Siskiyou County, including the City of Yreka. The
KBRA is over 270 pages of power grabbing language you will
ever see. I have a hard copy of the document and have gone
through it 4 times, here are some of the examples; Page 136,
Section, 20.4 titled "Reservations" has language that says,
that all the Tribes have to do is BELIEVE that there is not
enough water for fish and they can take any and all they
want through the enforcement of the ESA act. Page138,
Section 21.1.3, titled, NMFS &FWS BIOLOGICAL OPINION, says
that all the Fish & Wildlife and Fish & Game have to do to
take your water is CONSIDER that the water given up by
AGRICULTURE is not enough and they will take everyone
else's including the City of Yreka and shut down PRIVATE
wells.There is a whole lot more folks, but space dictates
the limits of what I can cover at this time
Hopefully I can do one more guest opinions and tell you the Worst and the Rest of the Story.
(Permission to post this article from the
publisher.)