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Warm Springs Community Library
The Warm Springs Com
munity Library is located in
the Family Resource Center.
The library is open Mon
day through Thursday .from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Fri
day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Library staff invites all
community members to stop
by and browse through the
growing book collection.
T here are com puters
available for Internet access,
as well as daily newspapers.
The library is conducting
a survey to find out how to
best serve the Warm Springs
community.
If you wish to give your
input, stop by the library to
fill out a survey form.
For more information, call
553-3462 or send an e-mail
to lsmith@wstribes.org
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Photo by Nicholas J. Loos; courtesy of Urbana Ross
Representatives of tribal committees earlier this month toured the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelectric dams, where the
Confederated Tribes, through Power and Water Enterprises, and Portland General Electric are developing a multi-million
dollar fish passage system.
According to the plan, the system, involving a 273-foot tall tower that will draw in water from Lake Billy Chinook - will be
in operation next spring. Once in operation, the system is expected to reopen 226 upstream miles of river to salmon and
steelhead migration, which has not existed since the dams were built in the 1960s.
On the recent tour were representatives of the tribal Water Board, the Land Use Planning Committee, the On-Reservation
Fish and Wildlife Committee, and Natural Resources.
EPA finds Klamath River
impaired by toxic algae
( A P ^ T h e U.S. E nviron
mental Protection Agency has
listed toxins from blue-green al
gae as another pollutant of the
Klamath River behind the hy
droelectric dams that Indian
tribes, fishermen and conserva
tion groups want removed to
make wasaffitisataapo»r• > , u j
The algae toxins in the Iron
Gate and Copco reservoirs now
must be considered along with
other pollutants by the Califor
nia Water Board as it considers
whether to grant the Clean Wa
ter Act certification needed by
the P o rtlan d -b ase d utility
PacifiCbrp to get a new operat
ing license for four hydroelec
tric dams on the Klamath.
“Now PacifiCorp will have to
clean up the toxic algae in the
Klamath River,” said Klamath
Riverkeeper Regina Chichizola,
whose lawsuit against EPA led
to reconsideration of the issue.
“The state will have a hard time
giving them certification.”
T he EPA finding did not
point to the dams as the source
o f the algae toxins. That is an
issue for later consideration. But
it did note that toxins were found
at unhealthy levels in the reser
voirs behind the dams, and not
in the river downstream. Low
levels have been found in fish,
but not enough to warn people
against eating them.
Maintaining that the algae has
been found in the river since
before the dams, PacifiCorp
spokesman Paul Vogel said the
utility company did not antici
pate the toxins being a signifi
cant problem to getting clean
water certification.
“We see it as a part of the
process, and it is certainly an is
sue we study,” Vogel said. “We
are looking at it and take it very
seriously.”
The California Water Board
is waiting for a specific proposal
on modifications to the series of
dams straddling the Oregon-
California border before going
ahead with the environmental
analysis on certification, said
board spokesman Bill Rukeyser
“The state o f California is
Next deadline to submit
item s to the S pilyay
Tymoo is Friday, April
4. Thank you.
fairly concerned about the tox
ins from blue-green algae on the
Klamath,” Rukeyser said. “Our
N o rth c o a st Regional W ater
Board has had to post the res
ervoirs and portions of the river
for those toxins. That has been
a concern of ours for several
years/L s. v i o O < V ? f a f i h /
Alexis Strauss, EPA water
division director for the West
ern states, said she did hot think
the algae toxins by themselves
would prevent clean water cer
tifications, but she noted they
come on top of problems with
warm water temperatures, low
dissolved oxygen, and nutrients
from agricultural runoff
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