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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Print This Page Removing Klamath Damns in the Name of Salmon
US - The Bush administration has announced a nonbinding agreement for removing four dams along the Klamath River, a key to resolving the basin's long-standing trouble balancing the water needs of farms and fish.
While not a final answer, stated the Courant, the deal represents a milestone toward what would become the biggest dam removal project in U.S. history.
The news agency reports that this will also would help resolve issues at the root of the 2001 shut-off of irrigation to thousands of acres of farmland under enforcement by U.S. marshals and the 2002 deaths of 70,000 adult salmon in the river after irrigation water was restored.
The agreement in principle reached in Sacramento, Calif., was to be signed Thursday by the U.S. Department of Interior, the utility PacifiCorp and the governors of Oregon and California.
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