The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District has completed
emergency repairs to a hydraulic gate at the R.W. Mathews Dam
on Ruth Lake, according to a press release issued today.
Environmental containment and cleanup operations have also been
wrapped up following a March 3 failure in the dam gate’s
hydraulic operating system. The subsequent discovery of a
hydraulic fluid leak triggered “an all-hands emergency that
demanded immediate action to protect our community’s water
supply,” District General Manager Michiko Mares says in the
press release. No oil was observed in the Mad River at any
point during the incident or repair operations, according to
the district.
Seven years after publicly announcing plans for a huge
land-based fish production facility on the Samoa Peninsula,
Nordic Aquafarms quietly abandoned the project
altogether. Last month, Nordic CEO Charles Hostlund
submitted paperwork to formally dissolve the company’s
California-based affiliate. … Operations would have
required more than 10 million gallons of seawater per day, plus
roughly 2 million gallons per day of fresh water, which the
Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District (HBMWD) had agreed to
provide. That agency has been in need of an industrial-scale
customer since the pulp mills shut down, given California’s
“use it or lose it” system of allocating water rights.
On this first-ever Foundation water tourwe examined water issues along the 263-mile Klamath River, from its spring-fed headwaters in south-central Oregon to its redwood-lined estuary on the Pacific Ocean in California.
Running Y Resort
5500 Running Y Rd
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
