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Page 14 December 20, 2 007 Spilyay Tyrooo, Wamr Springs, Oregon Holiday hoops tourney set for Dec. 28-30 „ The First Annual Holiday- Open Mens/Womens Jack pot Basketball Tourney is set for Friday-Sunday, Dec. 28*- 3 0 at the W arm Springs Community Center. Entry fee is $350; deposit required to hold spot, eight- teamminimum: All awards in cash, first- through third- $1 billion lawsuit claims dams produce hazardous waste GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ A $1 billion lawsuit filed Th ursd ay claim s th at PacifiCorp hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River produce hazardous waste in the form o f toxic algae that harms salmon as;well as people. - The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by Klamath Riverkeeper, elders o f the Yurok and Karuk tribes, and the owner o f rental cab ins along the riven “PacifiCorp is both creating and releasing this algae, and they are refusing to take re-; sponsibility for the pollution their dams are creating,” said Regina Chichizola o f Klamath Riverkeeper, a nonprofit river conservation group. PacifiCorp considers the al gae a natural result o f agricul tural wastes running into the reservoirs, and not a hazardous place. All Stars, MVP. The more teams, the big ger the pot. Contact Alvis or. Vivian Smith at (541) 610- 2567, o r email to vcarter- smith@msn.com! Tournament sponsored by Austin Smith Sr. and fam ily, Alvis III Smith and fam ily. January tourney scheduled The Holiday Basketball Tour ney is scheduled for Friday-Sun day,, Jan. 11-13 at the Warm Springs Community Center. The tournament is All-Indian Boys High School and All-Indian Girls High School. Entry infor mation: $300 per team, eight team limit per division, roster limit o f eight. Awards: First, S econ d , and T h ird place. Leather sleeve jackets for first- place winner. Formbre informa tion, contact Trey Leonard at ph. 325-1307. E-mail to' the follow ing: tieonard@wsttibes.org3 or mailing address: PO Box 1457, Warm Springs, OR 97761. The other contact ik Val Squiemphen at ,(541) 9 8 0 -2 8 6 7 , ¿e-m ail vjs@beudnet.com; or mailing ad dress: PO B o x 644, Warm Springs. Musr 'sho# prbof o f tribal descendancy and grade. w aste created by the dams, Gate and CopdO dams south o f spokeswoman Jan Mitchell said. the Oregon border in Northern The utility is funding studies California create the perfect o f the algae in the reservoirs and conditions for the toxic algae is working with others to find Microcystis aeruginosa by slow ing and warming the Klamath ways to reduce it, she added. Noting that the law invoked River in reservoirs, where the in the lawsuit is designed to ad water absorbs agricultural run dress municipal wastes, Mitchell off that help the algae grow. “N o one has brought this said the lawsuit appeared to be a public relations strategy, not a kind o f ease pertaining to solid waste, but we think thè facts fit legal one. The lawsuit is the fourth filed the law,” said attorney Daniel by Klamath Riverkeepefagainst Cooper o f the San Francisco PacifiCorp in a campaign to re group Lawyers for Clean Water. “There are areas with algae move four dams that block hun dreds o f miles o f salmon habitat problems around the state and This one seeks $1 billion in • the cou ntry,• ’ he said. “The damages under the Resource unique factor about the Klamath Conservation Recovery A ct, is there has been extensive sam- which governs hazardous waste pling demonstrating that highly . disposal, and a court order for toxic levels accumulate in the PacifiCorp to stop producing reservoirs and are discharging in the algae, which could require the river. And they sampled up stream reservoirs and found no removing the dams. The argument is that the Iron detectable levels o f the (algae).” Flowing ou t o f southern Oregon through Northern Cali fornia, the Klamath was once the third-largest salmon pro ducer on the West Coast, but has suffered from dwindling returns due to a long history o f habitat lost to logging, mining, agricul ture, dams, poor water quality and overfishing. Studies by the Karuk tribe led to toxic algae warnings posted by the U.S. EPA and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board on the Copco and Iron G ate reservoirs in 2005, Last fall, similar warnings were posted along 100 miles of the Klamath River downstream from Iron Gate. 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