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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. N o one has
died from contact with the al
gae, which produces a toxin, but
some plaintiffs have suffered
sympfomk Cdhsistent with con
tact with thC toxin after being
in the river, Cooper said.
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