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Multi-Millionaire Silicon Valley Land Developer Barry Swenson Holds An Almost Sixty Percent Stakehold in the Irrigation District That Drained This River
Multi millionaire land developer Barry Swenson, an almost sixty percent stakeholder in the Modoc County South Fork Irrigation District is proposing a hydroelectric plant upon this small streambed, the South Fork of the Pit River.
Once where the Hammawi Indian Band roamed, the river is habitat to endangered and threated aquatic life including the redband trout, the endangered Modoc Sucker, the endangered Shasta Crayfish and other endangered and threatened species.
Following the burst of the illy maintained irrigation diversion canal in November of 2004, sediment spilled into the river and the aquatic life disappeared, their skeletons recently discovered amongst the silt, as a result of large spring rains which began to flush the silt down the river.
In February, they drained the river, down to levels proposed for their hydroelectric plant. Their experts claimed fish could live in this environment.
Please join us in opposing this project. Call your local assembly representatives, your local state senator, your local Congessional representative and your U.S. Senators. Don't let this happen again.
Write letters and encourage your friends to write letters in a letter writing campaign in opposition to:
Modoc National Forest
800 12th Street
Alturas, California 96116
Please help us save this river.
Once where the Hammawi Indian Band roamed, the river is habitat to endangered and threated aquatic life including the redband trout, the endangered Modoc Sucker, the endangered Shasta Crayfish and other endangered and threatened species.
Following the burst of the illy maintained irrigation diversion canal in November of 2004, sediment spilled into the river and the aquatic life disappeared, their skeletons recently discovered amongst the silt, as a result of large spring rains which began to flush the silt down the river.
In February, they drained the river, down to levels proposed for their hydroelectric plant. Their experts claimed fish could live in this environment.
Please join us in opposing this project. Call your local assembly representatives, your local state senator, your local Congessional representative and your U.S. Senators. Don't let this happen again.
Write letters and encourage your friends to write letters in a letter writing campaign in opposition to:
Modoc National Forest
800 12th Street
Alturas, California 96116
Please help us save this river.
For more information:
http://www.ebold.com/~savesouthfork/
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