Hip Hop Show, Clean Water Hearings Highlight Upcoming Klamath River Events!

Many important Klamath River events are coming up this month and in early November!

Please come out to support the Klamath River.

PacifiCorp's Klamath Dam's Clean Water Permit Hearings:
October 20, 21, 29 and November 3

Un-Dam the Klamath Hip Hop Show: Oct 17th
NEC Klamath Settlement Presentation: Oct 15th

As many of your know, the reservoirs behind the Klamath River dams are prime breeding grounds for a highly toxic form of blue-green algae that produces the potent liver toxin microcystin at levels that reach 4,000 times higher than what the World Health Organization considers a "moderate" risk to human health.

If PacifiCorp is unable to secure the clean water permit, then its dams will stand in violation of state law. What then?

According to the EIR notice, if the state chooses this "no project" alternative it would basically mandate "the removal of Iron Gate, Copco No. 1 and Copco No. 2" dams. J.C. Boyle dam, whichis in Oregon, may only be regulated by California with regard to its impacts on water that flows into California.

Interestingly, the State Water Resources Control Board will not evaluate the dam relicensing proposals recommended by both PacifiCorp and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission because the Board considers these proposals "not legally feasible."

Please attend a hearing. If you can't, you may send written comments c/o
Jennifer Watts at: jwatts [at] waterboards.ca.gov
or State Water Resources Control Board
P.O. Box 2000
Sacramento, CA 95812-2000


Date, Time and Locations of Klamath 401 hearings:
October 20, 2008
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Eureka Public Six Rivers National Forest
1330 Bayshore Way
Eureka, CA
(707) 442-1721

October 20, 2008
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Klamath Public Yurok Tribe Headquarters
190 Klamath Blvd.
Klamath, CA 95548

October 21, 2008
noon – 2 p.m. Orleans Public Karuk Community Center 39051 State Hwy. 96
Orleans, CA 95556
(530) 627-3446

October 21, 2008
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Yreka Public Union High School
Student Union
431 Knapp Street
Yreka, CA
(530) 842-2521

October 29, 2008
3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Sacramento Public California EPA Bldg.
Byron Sher Auditorium
1001 "I" Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

November 3, 2008
9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Sacramento Agency California EPA Bldg.
Sierra Hearing Room
1001 "I" Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
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Oct. 17th
Un Dam the Klamath Hip Hop Benefit
Humboldt State, Goodwin Forum
4 pm Culture Sharing with the Robinson Rancheria Pomo Dancers and Pala Bird
Singers

8pm Live Show with:
Audiopharmacy
Da Movement
Cihuatl-Ce
Savage Family

Check out artists on myspace.

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NEC Hosts Public Klamath Settlement Presentation
October 15 7pm
Wharfinger Building
1 Marina Way, Eureka

Call NEC for more information at (707) 822-6918

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