Klamath River TMDLs

3/9 An evening with the Clean Water Act - Klamath Riverkeeper presents all you ever wanted to know about the Klamath and the Clean Water Act, but were afraid to ask. 5:30 - 7 pm at OIT College Center Mt. Mazama Rm.

3/16 Public meeting on Oregon's Klamath TMDL pollution clean-up plan in Klamath Falls. 6-9 pm at Oregon Extension Office.

3/24-5 Klamath TMDL presented for Regional Water Board approval

4/12 Oregon's Klamath TMDL public comment period closes

On the Klamath & N. California
Panamnik Building
38150 Hwy 96
Orleans, CA 95556
ph/fax: 530.627.3311
toll-free: 1.877.307.3311
Mailing:
PO Box 751
Somes Bar, CA 95568

In Oregon
PO Box 897
Ashland, OR 97520
ph: 541.488.3553
fax: 541.488.6212

For email, see staff page.

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TMDL Stands for Clean Water!

Action Alert: Send a letter supporting a strong TMDL by February 9th

Public Hearing on revisions to mainstem Klamath TMDL
January 27, 2010, 10 am
Holiday Inn Express
707 Montague Road
Yreka, CA 96067

The single most important process we have for protecting water quality on the Klamath is the "TMDL" pollution clean-up plan. This is how Oregon and California use the Clean Water Act to set pollution limits and create an action plan for water quality improvement. Through TMDLs, public agencies hold polluters, like PacifiCorp, suction dredge miners, and others, responsible for their degradation of the Klamath River.

California's half of the long-awaited Klamath clean-up plan was released in the summer of 2009. Final comments on revisions to this plan are due by February 9th, 2010. California is expected to adopt the final Klamath TMDL in March.

Oregon's part of the Klamath TMDL is due out in early 2010, though a release date has not yet been announced. Klamath Riverkeeper will publicize the comment period on this important TMDL as soon as it is available to the public.