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Defiance Of State Curtailment Ends After A Week



By Mike Meyer

A Siskiyou County Reporter


After ignoring the state's curtailment of Shasta River water diversions last week, a local irrigation group paid a steep price but achieved its goal, and then just as suddenly turned off its pumps and resumed curtailment on Wednesday.


"We did it to keep our cows alive. But we're off now, we're not diverting, said Rick Lemos of the Shasta River Water Association Board of Directors, yesterday.


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