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Sept.
3, 2002
Bear LakeWatch filed a response response with the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals in the legal action against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Here for the whole brief. | WATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING:
Shortly
after the Settlement Agreement was signed, Bear Lake Watch, PacifiCorp and the
Irrigators began a systematic, cooperative program to protest all new water applications
within the Bear River in Utah and Idaho to prevent further water withdrawals from
Bear Lake and the Bear River Basin. This program has been ongoing for some ten
years and has required protesting over one-hundred new water applications. This
action has, more or less, forced the states to begin a new round of water planning
within the basin in order to accommodate new users of basin water.
On September
4, 2002, The Bear River Water Management Advisory Committee, which included a
representative of Bear Lake Watch, submitted its final report to Director Dreher
of the Idaho Water Resources Division per his direction.
Bear Lake Watch Members
may access an electronic copy. Click
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The new Utah Water Management Plan has been circulated to a select
group for comment and will be available soon to the public. Bear Lake Watch commented
on that plan. We understand Wyoming has also prepared a new plan which we have
not seen. | Sept. 17th 2002
PacifiCorp stopped
pumping from Bear Lake. For the last 10 days, the Lifton Station has been pumping
at only 150-230 cfs, considerably below the normal rate. So far, 194,000 acre
ft. have been pumped downstream for the irrigators use. This leaves 11,000 acre
ft. of this years allocation unused. If the current "wet" weather continues,
there might not be any more pumping this year. | April 2, 2002,
Today, Bear Lake Watch appealed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision decision
that Bear Lake should not be included in the downstream relicensing of PacifiCorp's
power plants currently in the process of being relicensed. We have taken this
action to preserve our options should settlement discussions with PacifiCorp not
prove fruitful.
PacifiCorp has ignored our requests for the past four
years to include Bear Lake in the relicensing Environmental Impact Statement required
by the National Environmental Policy Act.
PacificCorp must either acknowledge
Bear Lakes's contribution to the power generation facilities or face further court
action through the appeal process in the Ninth Circuit Court. |
| BLW official response to local and state officials regarding the Pacificorps
meeting in Montpelier on Aug. 16th. Click here |
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