[env-trinity] Klamath River News: US streams polluted, Supreme Court rules on Dams, Trinity River

[Byron]

KLAMATH RIVER NEWS
a publication of the Klamath Restoration Council

* MORE THEN HALF OF US STREAMS POLLUTED
* RULING FAVORS RIVERS OVER POWER DAMS
* USA: STUDY PARASITES TO TRACK SALMON, SAY RESEARCHERS
* HOOPA VALLY TRIBE PROTEST WATER POLICY ON THE TRINITY RIVER
* ACTION ALERT: COMMENT ON A SIX RIVERS TIMBER SALE
* YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN THE KLAMATH STAKE HOLDERS LIST

MORE THEN HALF OF US STREAMS POLLUTED
Reuters May 5, 2006

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. streams are polluted, with the
worst conditions found in the eastern third of the country, according to a
study by the Environmental Protection Agency. 

In its first-ever study of shallow or "wadeable" streams, the agency found
42 percent were in poor condition, and another 25 percent were considered
fair. Only 28 percent were in good condition, EPA said. Another 5 percent
were not analyzed
because of sampling problems in New England.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews
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6-05-05T210711Z_01_N05299140_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-STREAMS-POLLUTION.xml>
&storyID=2006-05-05T210711Z_01_N05299140_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-STREAMS-PO
LLUTION.xml 

RULING FAVORS RIVERS OVER POWER DAMS
The Supreme Court says states may protect the waterways by requiring a
steady flow at hydroelectric plants, which tend to harness it.
May 16, 2006

 

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided with the environment over electric
power Monday, ruling that state regulators may require a steady flow of
water over power dams to benefit fish and kayakers. 

The unanimous decision holds that states may protect the health of their
rivers, even though hydroelectric dams are regulated exclusively by the
federal government.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-enviro16may16,1,3507067
.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

USA: STUDY PARASITES TO TRACK SALMON, SAY RESEARCHERS
May 6, 2006
Fish Farmer Magazine
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that the best way to
tell where an animal came from, such as salmon that scientists are trying to
track, may not be the genetics of the animal itself, but rather the
parasites that are hitching
a ride.
In a pioneering study that should give wildlife biologists an important new
tool to track migrating animals, the OSU researchers found that genetic
fingerprinting of
parasites can be up to four times more effective for identifying the origin
of a host animal than the DNA of the host animal itself.
http://www.fishfarmer <http://www.fishfarmer/>
magazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/476/USA:_Study_parasites_to_track_salmon
,_say_researchers.html

HOOPA VALLY TRIBE PROTEST WATER POLICY ON THE TRINITY RIVER
by Sharon Letts

5/13/2006
 

In a letter dated, April 24, 2006, the Hoopa Valley Tribe requested a
meeting with Mark Limbaugh, assistant Secretary of Water and Science at the
U.S. Interior Department, and James E. Cason, associate deputy secretary and
acting assistant secretary of Indian Affairs at Interior.
The meeting is in response to the tribe's request that the Bureau of
Reclamation not renew the long-term contracts with the largest consumers of
irrigation water in the Central Valley until those contracts are revised to
protect the Trinity River.

According to a letter drafted April 19, 2006, by the Westlands Water
District, the district is disputing a Bureau of Reclamation designation that
this year's water forecast is an "extremely wet year" rather than a "wet
year," and are threatening litigation if the Bureau of Reclamation does not
change the language, thus allowing more water to be taken from the river.
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=11095 

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Anyway, I plan on using the Klamath Stakeholders list to have some open
discussions with the upper Basin ag interests and others to try and find
common ground, or at a minimum, expose the fact that some people aren't
really interested in REAL solutions to the Klamath-Trinity problems.



Either way, I think some healthy and respectful discussions are in order.



Sincerely,
Tom Stokely

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