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Title: Environmental Inspection Report by Portland Regional Office for PacifiCorp'sKlamath Project
Creator: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Portland Regional Office
Date Created and/or Issued: 12/8/04
Publication Information: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: FERC issued docket number p-2082: The licensee is currently undergoing relicensing. Due to the age of the current license, there are minimal requirements with regard to environmental resources. The operation of the project is heavily influenced by the operation of the Bureau of Reclamation's Link River Diversion Dam on Upper Klamath Lake and major irrigation diversions, which also begin at Upper Klamath Lake. As a result, minimum flows are heavily influenced by BOR releases and are often less than the license required minimum flows. During the inspection, poor flow conditions were observed in the Keno and JC Boyle fish ladders. Additionally, the Iron Gate Reservoir was being drawn down 10 feet over a 2-week period to replace the Camp Creek and Mirror Cove boat ramps. During the inspection, one unit was operating at the Eastside powerhouse with a flow of 1000 cfs, the Westside powerhouse was out of service for maintenance, one unit was operating at the JC Boyle powerhouse with a flow of 1200 cfs, Copco 1 and 2 powerhouses were not operating, and one unit was operating at Iron Gate with a flow of 900 cfs. A follow-up telephone call with the licensee regarding fish ladder operations occurred on October 25, 2004.
Type: text
Form/Genre: digital copy
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2ht2nz2
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Subject: Legal and policy
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Klamath River, CA
Klamath River, OR
Copco No.2 Dam
Fall Creek Diversion Dam
Iron Gate Dam
J.C. Boyle Dam
Keno Dam
Link River Dam
United States
Relation: http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/intermediate.asp?link_desc=yes&slcfilelist=10435117:0

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