Settlement will aid imperiled fish
A power company has agreed to alter operations at a hydroelectric dam at the mouth of the Klamath River to help endangered fish.
Two species of suckerfish have been at the center of a drawn-out water war that pitted environmentalists against farmers in the Klamath Basin, a fertile agricultural region straddling the Oregon-California border.
Portland-based PacifiCorp reached a settlement with the environmental group Oregon Wild to shut down power production in the late summer and early fall at the Link River Dam at times when the endangered fish begin congregating nearby in Upper Klamath Lake.
The settlement also calls for nearly one-fourth of the proceeds generated by the dam each year to go toward wetland restoration and other enhancement projects to help the fish.
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