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No decision on water;
Tulelake Irrigation District board discusses water settlement plan
Herald and News 1/3/08 by Lee Juillerat
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A K E — The Tulelake Irrigation District board said Wednesday it hadn’t
determined whether it would take a stand on a water settlement plan on how
to allocate water in the Klamath River watershed.
Tulelake
Irrigation District manager Earl Danosky said the board has authority to
support or oppose the plan, which hasn’t been publicly released yet. The
district is the largest in the Klamath Project. Formed in the 1950s, it
services about 63,000 acres and has about 300 separate users.
The
board met Wednesday
and discussed the proposed agreement, but settlement talk participants
adhered to confidentiality agreements.
“People
know that there’s a confidentiality agreement and that remains in effect,”
said Paul Simmons, the
irrigation district’s attorney, before the group went into a closed
executive session. He said there would be several public meetings before an
agreement is finalized.
25
organizations
Representatives
from about 25 organizations have met for the past three years to devise the
plan. Participants include government agencies, tribes, environmentalists
and irrigators. Officials say the settlement should be made public soon, but
reports of when vary from a week to a month.
“I
hope everybody knows soon,” Simmons said before the board went into
executive session.
Ed
Sheets , who is involved in settlement talks, told the Herald and News
Wednesday that the group has not determined when or how the agreement will
be made public.
Klamath Water Users Association
2455 Patterson Street, Suite 3
Klamath Falls, Oregon 97603
Phone (541) 883-6100
FAX (541) 883-8893
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