02/23/05   -  The Water Report, published by Envirotech Publications, Inc. in Eugene, Oregon has in its Issue 11, January 15, 2005 a good article on Klamath Basin Science with Wildlife Biologist Dave Vogel and Dr. Thomas B. Hardy squaring off in Klamath Fishery Science - Controversy in the Klamath River Basin by Vogel and in Klamath Basin Water Resource Issues by Hardy.  You'll find the link to this important exchange on our You Need To Know - The Truth Index table.

Have you taken a look at our Interesting Reading Index lately?  We've posted several of Nancy Levant's latest articles about the Nature Conservancy, and we've posted her Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21on our You Need To Know - The Wildlands Project Index page. 

02/22/05   -  The New York Times published an article today entitled In Fish vs. Farmer Cases, the Fish Loses Its Edge which explores the legal battles over water here in the West.  The suit - Francis A. Orff v. United States, which will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow will consider only a narrow contract issue that focuses on whether farmers, rather than their irrigation districts, have legal standing to sue the federal government.  A ruling is expected sometime in June.

But the reverberations of the case are considered much broader, because a victory for the farmers could open the door to many more lawsuits of the sort that led in December to the $16.7 million payment to farmers and irrigation districts in Tulare and Kern Counties.  That settlement was the first by the federal government in a case in which farmers claimed their property rights had been violated by the taking of water to protect fish.  You can find this article in our You Need To Know - A History of the Klamath Water Crisis Index. 

Klamath Irrigation District, at al  v  U.S. Government is another case that has been in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims since October of 2001. At the link above, you'll find Klamath Irrigation District's court filed papers and AMICUS CURIAE "Friend of the Court" briefs and motions, plus some of the defendants.     

02/21/05   - We have posted too many interesting items today to list them.  Please click our You Need to Know index button and check out the new postings under A History of the Klamath Water Crisis, The Endangered Species Act, The Coho Salmon, and The Klamath Tribes.  

Williamson River flows are running at 658 cubic feet per second (cfs) today and the outflow from Upper Klamath Lake by way of the Link River has been dropped to 281 cfs.  Inactive storage in Upper Klamath Lake sits at an elevation of 4136.0 feet and full pool is 4143.3 feet.

Current elevation of Upper Klamath Lake:  up .27 from last Monday

Gage height, feet
Most recent value: 4,142.21   02-21-2005  09:30