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Upriver|Downriver Outings Program - Spring/Summer 09
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TMDL Stands for Clean Water!
Come to public hearings basinwide July 6-9
The single most important process we have for protecting water quality - and therefore fish - on theKlamath River is the Water Board's "TMDL" pollution clean-up plan. This is how the state ofCalifornia uses the Clean Water Act to hold polluters accountable using strong pollution limits and an action plan for water quality improvement on the Klamath. The Public Review Draft of the WaterBoard's Klamath TMDL and Action Plan are being released during the month of June, and the Water Board is taking comments on this draft at the dates and locations below.
More info and talking points
North Coast Regional Water Board Klamath TMDL website
Klamath TMDL and Action Plan Public Review Draft Hearings
July 6, 2009, 6 pm
Klamath Falls
OSU Ag Extension Office
3328 Vandenberg Road
July 7, 2009, 6 pm
Yreka, CA
Miner's Inn Convention Center
122 E. Miner St.
July 8, 2009, 6 pm
Orleans, CA
Karuk Community Room
Karuk Dept of Nat. Resources
39051 Highway 96
July 9, 2009, 6 pm
Klamath, CA
Yurok Tribal Headquarters
190 Klamath Blvd.
Written comments on the draft TMDL and Action Plan are due no later than 5:00 pm August 17th, 2009, and can be submitted via email, fax or post to:
Katharine Carter
North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
5550 Skylane Blvd, Suite A
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Phone: 707-576-2290
Fax: 707-523-0135
E-Mail: kcarter@waterboards.ca.gov
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Klamath Basin Climate Futures Forum
The University of Oregon and the National Center for Conservation Science and Policy are hosting workshops on climate change in the Klamath Basin. One set of workshops will focus on soliciting feedback on their projections regarding natural systems, the other will focus on community (human) systems.
For RSVP, location, and time info download a flyer on the workshops
Natural Systems Workshops:
June 23 - Klamath Falls, OR
June 25 - Klamath, CA
Community Systems Workshops:
July 29 - Klamath Falls, OR
July 31 - Klamath, CA
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Host a Klamath Riverkeeper Film Night
Several great filmmakers have produced awesome films about dams, fish, farmers, and Tribes on the Klamath. We are pleased to show these movies, and audiences are consistently impressed with their level of well-balanced reporting and consideration of the issues. Help us out by hosting a film night in your community. Whether its your club, your college, your town or just your friends, we're relying on you to help us get the word out on the Klamath dams. Contact us and we'll work with you to plan a successful event.
Un-Dam the Klamath Featured Films:
Solving the Klamath Crisis: Keeping Fish and Farms Alive
Four hydroelectric dams built eighty years ago have degraded the health of the Klamath River, decimated local salmon populations, and imperiled three Native American tribes. A budding coalition of Native Americans, farmers, environmentalists, and fishermen may now be able to remove those dams. Film produced by the Klamath Salmon Media Collaborative
Shake Your Oncorhynchus
A short film featuring lively footage of all our favorite underwater characters on the Klamath, set to hip hop beats.