U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Wednesday announced that the Bureau of Reclamation
is providing $2.7 million in funding for studies in
California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon,
Texas and Utah through the U.S. Department of the
Interior's WaterSMART Program.
A total of $1,944,000 will go for
studying the Klamath River Basin, which straddles
the boundary between California and Oregon, covering
approximately 12,100 square miles.
According to an Interior
Department press release, recent negotiations and
resolutions require ongoing cooperation and
participation of federal, tribal, state and local
governments along with fishing, environmental and
other organizations.
”The basin study will
collaboratively develop a basin wide perspective of
the climate change-related risks for supply and
demand that may affect agriculture, anadromous and
resident fish, recreation, municipal and domestic
water supplies, hydropower and flood control
facilities,” Interior said. “This effort will assess
potential impacts of climate change on snowpack and
precipitation, timing and quality of runoff,
groundwater recharge and discharge and any increases
in demand and/or reservoir evaporation; and will
develop structural and non-structural options to
address current and projected imbalances in the
basin.”
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Oregon
| Basin Plan
of Study,
Klamath River,
California and
Oregon
|
|
|
Reclamation Funding:
$925,000
|
Total
Funding: $1,944,000
|
The Klamath River Basin
straddles the boundary between
California and Oregon, covering
approximately 12,100 square
miles. The basin is affected by
a variety of water supply and
demand imbalances which are
expected to increase with
projected climate change. Recent
negotiations and resolutions
require ongoing cooperation and
participation of federal,
tribal, state and local
government along with fishing,
environmental and other
organizations. The basin study
will collaboratively develop a
basin-wide perspective of the
climate change related risks for
supply and demand that may
affect agriculture, anadromous
and resident fish, recreation,
municipal and domestic water
supplies, hydropower and flood
control facilities. This effort
will assess potential impacts of
climate change on snowpack and
precipitation, timing and
quality of runoff, groundwater
recharge and discharge and any
increases in demand and/or
reservoir evaporation; and will
develop structural and
non-structural options to
address current and projected
imbalances in the basin.
