FACT SHEETS
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Regional Water Enhancement Program FACT SHEET, May 2007

KWUA response to media accusations directed at the Klamath Project RE: Potential Salmon Season Closure, 3/20/06

Letter from KWUA to Congressman Blumenauer re: August 26 meeting in Klamath Falls followed by Attachments -FACT SHEETS-  2-6. September 1, 2004
1. KWUA’s comments sent earlier this summer regarding "Scoping Document No. 1" prepared by FERC in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"). This should provide you with the additional detail you requested regarding our stance on, and related history of, the current power rate enjoyed by Klamath Project irrigators.
2. Description of pre-Project hydrology, relative to downstream flows in the Klamath River.
3. Description of Klamath Project efficiency.
4. Summary of cropping patterns and irrigation.
5. Summary of March-October diversions, 1962-2001.
6. Summary of refuge water demands, 1951-2001.

* Facts responding to The Oregonian's buy-out articles, 5/11/04.
      
* Plaintiffs’ Arguments in Looming Court Case Beginning to Unravel U.S. Closes Whistleblower File 4/17/03
       
*Study Shows That Klamath River Temperatures – Not Klamath Project Operations – Are Likely Reason for 2002 Fish Die-Off March 2003 by David Vogel
       
*Biography for David Vogel
       
*MYTH VS. FACT: 2002 Klamath River Fish Die-Off, 4/16/03
       
 *Klamath Project Critics Underplay the Importance of Trinity River Water Temperatures, 4/23/03
       
 *The California Department of Fish and Game Preliminary Analysis of Factors Contributing to the September 2002 Klamath River Fish Die-Off is FLAWED. April 2003

In June 2002, Miller Ecological Consultants, Inc. of Ft .Collins, Colorado completed its assessment of the Phase I Hardy Report, which was used as the interim basis for the National Marine Fisheries Service biological opinion for 2001 Klamath Project Operations. Miller found the Phase I Hardy Report to be "fatally flawed" for the following reasons: go HERE

* The Hardy Phase II DRAFT Report Is Not a Recipe for Preventing Fish Die-Off and it Still Does Not Represent the Best Available Science on Klamath River Flows. April 2003

Recent Findings on DRAFT Hardy Phase II Report Made by Dave Vogel, Fisheries Biologist April 2003

The process leading to the draft Hardy Phase II report was severely constrained and flawed by exclusion of other expertise, stakeholders, and knowledgeable individuals. Includes quotes from BIA, CDFG, more. April 2003