Unprecedented Drought Positions Klamath Basin For Driest Year On Record
Originally published on April 14, 2021 9:23 pm The projected 33,000 acre-feet of water that will be released from Upper Klamath Lake for irrigators this year is a fraction of what farmers need, according to members of the Klamath Water Users Association. “To put it in perspective, the Klamath Project on a dry year needs about 450,000 acre-feet of water or more, sometimes up to 510,000 acre feet, in a very dry year to get everything wet and make it through the year,” says Gene Souza with t...
Source: klcc.org