Copco Dam set to GO – Just Push the Button

Photo Credit: swiftwaterfilms.com, Swiftwater Films – an independent production company

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Thank you Shane Anderson for granting Siskiyou News to use your photographs!

I emailed Klamath River Renewal Corporation for information on progress update and comment on photographs. Below is the response I received..

Jay,

Here’s a link to our FB page with some information on the work at Copco 1 and the new tunnel. Also, KRRC will be presenting at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday the 26^th if you’d like to join and hear more about the work. Those photos were made available by Shane Anderson, Swiftwater Films, and you likely need their permission to publish these photos.

https://www.facebook.com/klamathrenewal/posts/pfbid0z4wrGMYyMRb8ucY5kFnA4uh6AUuCykJStqJc2P6htneugPEX921FrtZUVhZqtDSTl

Mark Bransom

Chief Executive Officer

Klamath River Renewal Corporation

[email protected]

I have yet to receive a reply for Klamath River Renewal Corporation public information officer Ren Brownell. If I receive a response I will update this.

I have yet yo receive a reply from Ray Haupt, Siskiyou Country Board of Supervisor. To the best of my knowledge this is in District 5, Ray Haupt is

• Siskiyou County Flood Control and Water Conservation District – Director
• Siskiyou Power Authority – Director

Committee Memberships:

Revised 2/22/2023 { https://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/supervisors/page/district-5-ray-haupt }

The following is response from: Richard Marshall, President: Siskiyou County Water Users Association

Only time will tell, I feel. I have had it parroted to me many times talking with Yurok, and Karuk “That if they believed this would kill the river and its ecosystem that “they” would not want this #UNDAMMING Done!

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