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TMDL Stands for Clean Water!
Action Alert: Send a one-click letter supporting Oregon's clean water plan for the Klamath by May 27th, 2010
The single most important process we have for protecting water quality on the Klamath is the "TMDL" pollution clean-up plan. This is how Oregon 
and California use the Clean Water Act to set pollution limits and create an action plan for water quality improvement. Through TMDLs, public agencies hold polluters like PacifiCorp, Columbia Forest Products, suction dredge miners, and others, responsible for their degradation of the Klamath River.
California's half of the long-awaited Klamath clean-up plan was released in the summer of 2009. The deadline for submitting public comments has passed, and California adopted the final Klamath TMDL at an adoption hearing March 24th-25th.
Oregon's part of the Klamath TMDL was released February of 2010, and comments on the first draft are due by May 27th.
What you can do
- Send a one-click letter supporting a strong Oregon Klamath TMDL by April 12th
- Speak up for the Klamath at Oregon's public hearing on its draft Klamath TMDL pollution clean-up plan, March 16th at the OSU Klamath Basin Extension Office, 3328 Vandenberg Road, in Klamath Falls, 6-9 pm.
- Attend California's Klamath TMDL adoption hearing in March 24-25th at the Eureka Public Marina, #1 Marina Way, Eureka, CA. We need to show strong public support for adoption at this meeting. Come on down and bring your friends.
Links & more info
- Learn more about TMDLs, the Klamath River and the Clean Water Act
- Read the official California Klamath TMDL on the North Coast Regional Water Board's site
- Read the official Oregon Klamath TMDL on the Department of Environmental Quality's site
- Background on Klamath TMDLs from the Klamath Basin Tribal Water Quality Work Group
- More background on Klamath TMDLs from other sources