Lawmakers Want Klamath Investigation
Two California congressmen want the U.S. General Accounting Office to investigate a government program that pays farmers along the central California-Oregon border for water to help the threatened salmon downstream in the lower Klamath River.
Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Helena) and Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) asked the GAO to determine if the millions of dollars that have gone into the Klamath water account have been used for their intended purpose.
“We spent money on this, and was it well spent?” Thompson asked on a recent trip to Eureka.
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