KLAMATH FALLS, ore. (AP) — Wet weather in April has done little to change the drought picture for farmers in the upper Klamath Basin.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation tells the Herald and News newspaper that the ground was so dry it soaked up the rains, so little got to Upper Klamath Lake, the main reservoir for the area’s federal irrigation project.
The formal operations plan for the Klamath Reclamation Project is coming out in the first half of May, but the bureau says water is not likely to start flowing until sometime after May 15th — a month and a half later than usual.
Drought and the demands of protected fish have forced steep cutbacks in irrigation on the project.
