I have been in turmoil
for days watching the
massive waste of water
through our property.
Having been in the water
just 2 days before, the
water quality and lack
of 'macrophytes' was as
good as I've seen for
some time at this time
of year, with very
little deposited
sediment over winter.
Showing typical raising
spore counts at this
time, using 'testing'
giving acknowledged
questionable 'guidance'
information, they are
'flushing' what was
originally 'modeled'
specifically for our
'most dams impacted'
river reach (which I
argued at the time was
personally experienced
as ludicrous), to
'dilute' spore counts
and 'disrupt polychaete'
(which they have now
PROVEN DOESN'T WORK)
evidenced FAR HIGHER
downstream than here!
NOW comes the kicker!
Last night I just found
and read the 'report'
produced in December
documenting the data for
disease infection rates
during 2019. Trying
very hard NOT to
correlate the massive
mandated 'flushing'
flows and one of the
highest water years on
record with the
triggering 'spore
counts' during one of
the colder water
temperature years, 2019
produced the HIGHEST
INFECTION RATES in over
11 years of testing! It
ALSO begrudgingly admits
to several other
'surprising'
inconsistencies
regarding infection
data. Aren't reading
THAT in the paper, are
you? Completely refuting
hypothetical 'modeled
benefits', without
diverging from the
'party line', it's
content nonetheless
confirms the CONSISTENT
data revealing the
complete FAILURE of
'cost effective'
dilution flows.
They KNOW SO MUCH,
Bartholomew just figured
out (in a different
'report) that the
polychaete isn't even
what she has been
calling it all these
years, but the west
coast species is
genetically DIFFERENT
from east coast
Manayunkia speciosa
which does not harbor
the west coast diseases,
but instead she has
proudly published and
named it Manayunkia
occidentalis as perhaps
somehow apparently more
conducive to harboring
ceratomyxa shasta and
parvicapsula
minibicornis. Glad
SHE'S benefiting.
With the NOW EXTENSIVE
empirical Klamath
Interim Monitoring
Agreement data REFUTING
EVERY premise they have
imposed to date, and
which by BOR BiOp
'collaborative
agreement' they JUST
'approved' specifically
IGNORING ANY empirical
data for 3 years until
AFTER the intended
destruction of the NOW
PROVEN ONLY
'improvements' to
Klamath downstream water
quality (the dams and
deep water lakes), the
self serving insanity
just continues.
For them to continue
water wasting against
court orders is
revealingly ironic, when
BOR, OWR, and
'collaborators' are all
too happy to comply when
court orders are
AGAINST the Upper Basin
irrigators. I truly
hope this can intervene
soon enough to avert
total Upper Basin
carnage this year.
Rex Cozzalio, Hornbrook,
California
