Lower Klamath/tule lake

[Hunter/Gather]

The wet in California doesn't extend north all that far and southern Oregon is having a below average precip winter. And the Klamath Basin is in a longer term very dry cycle. What water has been delivered the last several years in the Bureau of Reclamation's "Klamath Project" isn't going to the marshes of the Refuges. Agricultural crops, even growing onions or potatoes on the NWRs, have a higher priority for water than the wetlands. If there was a snow pack comparable to the Sierras some water should make it to the NWRs.
Not a conspiracy, just the fact of how the Klamath Project was authorized. Throw in some endangered suckers and court decisions on reserved "senior" tribal water rights and it is a mess. Efforts to change that have had a huge price tag to keep everyone financially "happy enough" and have pretty much died on the vine in Congress.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that is where we're at.

Mitch

 

[Dublbarrel]

How

 

[Nocalhonker]

There was a post on a Facebook group that had some water in the west end of sump 1B TL

 

[Mean Gene]

You may not see water on LK for a long, long time.

 

[Dek]

You may not see water on LK for a long, long time

Gene, I don't have a long, long time left! I had wonderful visions of spending weeks every Fall up there when I retired. Not gonna happen, that's for sure.

 

[dakinunit]

You may not see water on LK for a long, long time.

Your right,north end of the state didn't get slammed with snow,so i don't know,Honey lake will come out pretty good,it got it's sheet water,then got cold,so it held it,now just let the snow run off into her...

 

[thekillerofmallard]

You may not see water on LK for a long, long time.

Hush it.

 

[blacktail]

The wet in California doesn't extend north all that far and southern Oregon is having a below average precip winter.

Doesn't seem to be below average winter.

 

[Dan Mallia]

There's not a drop of water on Tule Lake or the CA portion of Lower Klamath.

False. There’s water on some the Tule fields and Unit 2 on LK has water.

 

[gunnarmcc]

Doesn't seem to be below average winter.
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