Misty Buckley writes to the Oregon Emergency Board about her domestic well going dry 10/28/21. "...We are one of several (at least 4) homes in our neighborhood whose well has went dry this summer...there were ag wells pumping near our home that (as far as I know) never got shut off all season long and illegal marijuana grows stealing water that were turned in numerous times throughout the summer but not raided until just recently, to say the least it’s tough to feel that the average homeowners should have to bear this exorbitant burden without some type of assistance..."
FOLLOWED BY: Comment by KID/Klamath Irrigation District Manager Gene Souza, on the reason 410 domestic wells went dry this summer: “…many shallow domestic wells, which were put into the previous marshlands and lakebeds, went dry because the irrigation water was not allowed to fill the canals and be applied to the former marshlands and lakebeds..."

"My name is Rhonda N., I am a homeowner in the Klamath Basin that has lost the use of my domestic well." 10/28/21.

Rogue Pack likely lives on as pups caught on video near Fort Klamath 10/26/21. "Since 2016, the Rogue Pack has been responsible for more than 35 confirmed kills, mostly on cattle grazing lands in the Fort Klamath area and near Prospect in Jackson County."

Clear connections between Klamath marijuana grows and Mexican cartels, H&N 10/23/21. "...Two major marijuana busts in Klamath County just this month led to the seizure of more than $120 million worth of product had it made it to the illegal market...And the watermaster has seen a 700% increase in marijuana related water theft and other water offenses. They haven’t been able to respond to half of them because they are so understaffed...According to local law enforcement, this industry is based in large part on the miserable suffering of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people coming across the border illegally, and then being pressed into indentured servitude by cartels...”

Flood Irrigation Forever: Farmers provide crucial habitat for migratory waterfowl, recharge aquifer, Capital Press 10/22/21. "It takes a lot of water, but it also puts a lot of water back in the aquifer"..."Those acres are surrogate dwellings providing shallow-water habitat. The majority of the birds in the field are looking for aquatic invertebrates, such as fly, wasp and beetle larvae. Every time it floods, new larvae hatch as the water recedesFish and Game has spent roughly $131,000 in HIP funding on flood-irrigation projects statewide...He is also monitoring birds, identifying species and counting them, as part of his agreement with NRCS..."

Helicopters to make low-level flights over the Tulelake and Scott River, Shasta, Butte, Big and Fall River Valleys groundwater basins this October, letter from Sustainable Groundwater Management Office, CA Dept of Water Resources 10/15/21. From William A Simpson: "(This is regarding) upcoming geological surveys to occur in the Shasta, Scott, Butte and Tulelake Groundwater Basins. "These CA Water People are really targeting ALL of our water... this hi-tech prospecting method will allow them to locate any unknown aquifers and claim them in addition to all the other waters they already have in their sights... Many ranchers and farmers own their mineral and water rights, which are now at risk of exploitation by the greedy people in Sacramento! " by Captain William E. Simpson II, Naturalist - Author - Conservationist.
FOR CA Dept of Water Resources POWERPOINT: https://bosagenda.co.siskiyou.ca.us/PublishedMeetings.htm  go to meeting 10/5/21, # 8B Natural Resources, then click on 2 and hopefully the power point should appear.

Klamath County domestic well assistance extended through March 2022, 10/7/21. "Due to a zero allocation of Upper Klamath Lake water to the Klamath Project this summer, dry irrigation canals and increased agricultural groundwater pumping left over 200 homes in the project footprint without water in their domestic wells."

Klamath Water Users Association/KWUA wants more money from irrigators now; Letter to Klamath Irrigation District / KID from KWUA, 10/6/21. "...I request that you approve and send a supplemental assessment of $1.75 per acre so that KWUA can continue to operate and pay bills through the end of the year. We have most significantly exceeded the board-approved 2021 budget for lobbying expenses..." KBC NOTE: We were informed that there are approximately 225,000 farmable acres in the Klamath Project, and 175,000 acres obtain water from Klamath Lake. This year the Bureau of Reclamation had a court order that it could not use our stored water for any purpose besides irrigation, however they denied irrigators their water, and even exceeded by 41,808 acre feet above the biological opinion for suckers. So, 225,000 acres times $1.75 = $393,750 from irrigators who paid their O&M water bill this spring, who received none of their Klamath Lake stored water. 
Klamath Water Users Association/KWUA activities and accomplishments 9/30/21

Reclamation adds $5 million to Klamath Project drought relief, H&N 10/5/21. "...roughly $35 million is headed to the basin to help farmers through a devastating water year..."

 

Klamath River flows update by Rex Cozzalio, Hornbrook, CA 10/03/21. "Up to September the flow from Iron Gate has been 'unnaturally' kept close to the 60 year average by confiscating equally 'unnaturally' stored water from the irrigators, though WITHOUT the artificial 'flushes' also using confiscated water mandated over the past recent years in failed attempts to try and reduce polychaete densities.  Having been proven wrong..."

Upper Klamath irrigators challenge water transfer to wildlife refuge, Capital Press 10/1/21. "A lawsuit claims Oregon water regulators have authorized a water transfer to a wildlife refuge without properly analyzing the impacts on Upper Klamath irrigators.