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.wsu-tiles{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}.kid-wsu .wsu-glance{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}\n  .kid-wsu .wsu-cmp{font-size:14px;table-layout:fixed}\n  .kid-wsu .wsu-cmp th,.kid-wsu .wsu-cmp td{padding:7px 5px;overflow-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word}\n  .kid-wsu .wsu-cmp td.n{white-space:normal}}\n\n.kid-wsu .note{font-size:13.5px;color:#6b7280;line-height:1.55}\n.kid-wsu .maroon{color:#8e1a29}\n.kid-wsu .rust{color:#b5541f}<\/style>\n<article class=\"kid-wsu\">\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-eyebrow\">District Record \u00b7 Water Year 2026<\/div>\n  <h1>There was not enough water for Klamath Project farmers to meet demand in 2026.<\/h1>\n  <div class=\"wsu-alert wsu-recordhead\">\n    <span class=\"al\">The record \u00b7 water year 2026 closed September 30, 2026<\/span>\n    <h2>This is the District\u2019s standing record of the 2026 water year.<\/h2>\n    <p><strong>Water year 2026 is closed<\/strong> \u2014 October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 \u2014 and the figures kept on that clock are final. What follows is the District\u2019s own account of the year, kept so 2026 can be compared with the years before and after it.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>The 2026 irrigation season did not close with it.<\/strong> The season runs <strong>March 1 to November 30<\/strong> on one supply of water. It carried past the end of the water year on October 1 and stayed tied to that same supply. <strong>K.I.D.\u2019s part in it is finished.<\/strong> Reclamation and K.I.D. staff installed the bulkheads on the A Canal <strong>before 10:30 on Thursday, October 15, 2026<\/strong>. The volume still unused is committed to Tulelake Irrigation District, which carries the season through November. <a href=\"#part1\"><strong>How the season ran \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n    <div class=\"fix\"><strong>Patrons:<\/strong> the live notices \u2014 what to order, when to call water off, and the closing dates \u2014 are on the current water-supply update, not on this page. This page is kept as the record.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"wsu-act\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/\"><span class=\"al2\">Water Year 2027 \u2192<\/span><span class=\"as\">Live figures, current conditions and patron notices<\/span><\/a>\n    <a class=\"alt\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/water_rights\/\"><span class=\"al2\">Water Rights<\/span><span class=\"as\">Acreage, contracts and priority dates<\/span><\/a>\n    <a class=\"alt\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/water-dashboard\/\"><span class=\"al2\">Water Dashboard<\/span><span class=\"as\">Live conditions, storage and the long-term record<\/span><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <nav class=\"wsu-partnav\" aria-label=\"Sections of this record\">\n    <a href=\"#rules\"><span class=\"pn\">Reference<\/span><span class=\"pt\">The rules the season ran under<\/span><span class=\"pd\">The supply and the single cap, how the year was classified, the contracts and water rights, and what counted against the limit.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part1\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 1<\/span><span class=\"pt\">How the season ran<\/span><span class=\"pd\">How it began and how it ended \u2014 the lake, the snowpack, the rules it opened under, the daily diversion record and the bulkheads.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part2\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 2<\/span><span class=\"pt\">The 2026 operations log<\/span><span class=\"pd\">Every dated entry of the season, and every operating notice issued to patrons.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part3\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 3<\/span><span class=\"pt\">How 2026 compares<\/span><span class=\"pd\">The year against the record \u2014 both clocks, the filling season, snowpack, and the two shutoff years it was not.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part4\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 4<\/span><span class=\"pt\">What the shortage cost<\/span><span class=\"pd\">Crop by crop against what each crop needs, and what the idling programs took out of production.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part5\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 5<\/span><span class=\"pt\">Refuge conditions<\/span><span class=\"pd\">The botulism outbreak at Tule Lake, avian influenza, and how water through the districts turned it around.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part6\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 6<\/span><span class=\"pt\">River conditions<\/span><span class=\"pd\">Disease in the salmon at both ends of the year, the fall run, and what the toxin sampling found.<\/span><\/a>\n    <a href=\"#part7\"><span class=\"pn\">Part 7<\/span><span class=\"pt\">Stored water released to the river<\/span><span class=\"pd\">121,235 acre-feet left at Keno between May and September beyond what came into the lake.<\/span><\/a>\n  <\/nav>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part1\">Part 1 \u00b7 How the 2026 irrigation season ran<\/span>\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\">The season in one screen<\/div>\n  <div class=\"wsu-asof\">Figures below come from K.I.D.'s 2026 water tracker, last read <span data-kid=\"asof\">October 15, 2026<\/span>. <strong>Two clocks run here.<\/strong> The water year ended September 30, so those figures are final. The irrigation season runs to November 30, so those are still moving.<\/div>\n  <div class=\"wsu-glance\">\n    <div class=\"g\"><div class=\"gv\">198,673<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"gk\">Delivered in <strong>water year 2026<\/strong> \u2014 March 1 to September 30, the year now closed<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"g\"><div class=\"gv\"><span data-kid=\"delivered\">212,316<\/span><small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"gk\">Delivered against the 221,000 AF supply \u2014 the whole 2026 season, through <span data-kid=\"asof\">October 15<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"g\"><div class=\"gv gold\"><span data-kid=\"remaining\">8,684<\/span><small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"gk\">Still unused \u2014 <span data-kid=\"pct\">3.9<\/span>% of the supply, committed to T.I.D. to finish its season<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"g\"><div class=\"gv\">Oct 15<\/div><div class=\"gk\">Bulkheads in before 10:30 \u2014 K.I.D. deliveries ended<\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-chart\" style=\"margin:20px 0 6px\">\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\">Historic water tracker<\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-charttitle\">Daily Ag Diversion Rate \u2014 the whole 2026 irrigation season, March 1 to November 30. Solid through <strong>October 15<\/strong>, the last reading; dashed after that, sized to deliver the rest of the supply in full. K.I.D. stopped at the bulkheads on October 15; T.I.D. carries the balance to the end of the season.<\/div>\n      <svg viewBox=\"0 0 880 462\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Daily water taken from the lake and river for farms, charged against the 221,000 acre-foot supply. Measured through October 15, 2026, the day K.I.D. stopped: the whole Project near 330 cubic feet per second, K.I.D. near 105 on its final part-day. Projected after that: Tulelake Irrigation District carries about 95 to the end of the season on November 30, delivering the remaining 8,684 acre-feet in full. A shaded band marks August 14 to 24, when water moved through the districts to the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath refuges and Project diversions peaked near 1,100. 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y=\"170\" font-size=\"11.5\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#1b2a4e\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\">Whole Project  ~221,000<\/text>\n<text x=\"576\" y=\"182\" font-size=\"11.5\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\">K.I.D.         ~111,000<\/text>\n<line x1=\"46.0\" y1=\"440.0\" x2=\"66.0\" y2=\"440.0\" stroke=\"#1b2a4e\" stroke-width=\"2.2\"\/>\n<text x=\"71.0\" y=\"443.5\" font-size=\"10.2\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">Whole Project \u2014 measured<\/text>\n<line x1=\"245.2\" y1=\"440.0\" x2=\"265.2\" y2=\"440.0\" stroke=\"#1b2a4e\" stroke-width=\"2.2\" stroke-dasharray=\"5 4\"\/>\n<text x=\"270.2\" y=\"443.5\" font-size=\"10.2\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">Whole Project \u2014 projected<\/text>\n<line x1=\"449.9\" y1=\"440.0\" x2=\"469.9\" y2=\"440.0\" stroke=\"#2f8fb0\" stroke-width=\"2.2\"\/>\n<text x=\"474.9\" y=\"443.5\" font-size=\"10.2\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">K.I.D. \u2014 measured<\/text>\n<line x1=\"626.6\" y1=\"440.0\" x2=\"646.6\" y2=\"440.0\" stroke=\"#2f8fb0\" stroke-width=\"2.2\" stroke-dasharray=\"5 4\"\/>\n<text x=\"651.6\" y=\"443.5\" font-size=\"10.2\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">K.I.D. \u2014 projected<\/text>\n<\/svg>\n      <div class=\"wsu-key\">\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw\" style=\"border-top-color:#1b2a4e\"><\/i><span><b>All districts<\/b><span class=\"ks\">Every drop charged against the 221,000<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw dash\" style=\"border-top-color:#1b2a4e\"><\/i><span><b>All districts \u2014 projected<\/b><span class=\"ks\">Dashed, after October 12<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw\" style=\"border-top-color:#2f8fb0\"><\/i><span><b>K.I.D. only<\/b><span class=\"ks\">The A Canal and the Miller Hill pumps \u2014 73,651 acres<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw dash\" style=\"border-top-color:#2f8fb0\"><\/i><span><b>K.I.D. \u2014 projected<\/b><span class=\"ks\">Dashed, after October 12 \u2014 ends at the bulkheads<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw band\"><\/i><span><b>Water to the refuges<\/b><span class=\"ks\">Aug 14\u201324 \u2014 the shaded band; Project diversions peaked at 1,100 cfs<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n    <span class=\"ki\"><i class=\"sw dash\" style=\"border-top-color:#8e1a29\"><\/i><span><b>Sep 30 \u2014 water year ends<\/b><span class=\"ks\">The season kept going past it. Everything left of <em>October 12<\/em> was measured; everything right of it is projected<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"wsu-readout\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\">How the rest of the season plays out:<\/p>\n  <ul class=\"wsu-steps\">\n    <li><span class=\"wk\">Oct 1<\/span><b>Klamath Drainage District came off this account.<\/b> The line steps up here because K.I.D. and T.I.D. both ran hard to finish.<\/li>\n    <li><span class=\"wk\">Oct 13\u201314<\/span><b>K.I.D. held near 253 cfs<\/b> \u2014 the rate at the last reading \u2014 to finish late-season ground.<\/li>\n    <li><span class=\"wk\">Oct 15<\/span><b>The bulkheads went in before 10:30 and K.I.D. deliveries ended.<\/b> K.I.D. finishes the year at roughly <b>111,000 acre-feet<\/b>, about <b>seven-eighths<\/b> of it through the A Canal and the rest through the Miller Hill pumps.<\/li>\n    <li><span class=\"wk\">Oct 16 \u2013 Nov 30<\/span><b>T.I.D. carries the balance<\/b> to the close of the season. The dashed line is drawn at the rate that <b>delivers the remaining supply in full<\/b> \u2014 not at the rate currently running.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <div class=\"wsu-cap\">Projected figures are the District Manager's planning estimate and move with actual diversions. Supply figures follow <strong>Reclamation's Deliveries and Demands<\/strong> accounting: Station 48 is carried at Reclamation's figure, lower than the District's gage total because part of that water went to the refuges through the J Canal rather than over Anderson-Rose Dam, and Reclamation's district totals exclude the Lost River Diversion Channel, F&FF pumping and the Sukraw offset. Daily inflow, Keno outflow and storage detail are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/water-dashboard\/\"><strong>Water Dashboard<\/strong><\/a>.<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-plain\">\n    <span class=\"pt2\">The words on this page, in plain terms<\/span>\n    <dl>\n      <dt>Acre-foot (AF)<\/dt>\n      <dd>Enough water to cover one acre \u2014 about a football field \u2014 one foot deep. That is <strong>325,851 gallons<\/strong>, or roughly what three homes use in a year.<\/dd>\n      <dt>cfs<\/dt>\n      <dd>Cubic feet per second: how <em>fast<\/em> water is moving past a point, not how much there is. One cfs is about <strong>450 gallons a minute<\/strong>. Left running for a day it delivers about two acre-feet.<\/dd>\n      <dt>The 221,000<\/dt>\n      <dd>The acre-feet Reclamation said the whole Klamath Project could take in 2026 \u2014 every farm, every district. It is the ceiling this record measures against.<\/dd>\n      <dt>Water right<\/dt>\n      <dd>Legal permission to use water, with a date attached. <strong>When there is not enough, older dates are served first.<\/strong> A right says who gets water and when, not how much is in the lake.<\/dd>\n    <\/dl>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\">How the season began<\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-stats\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-stat\"><div class=\"v\">~504,000<\/div><div class=\"k\">Full contractual entitlement, acre-feet \u2014 what Project contracts call for in a full year<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-stat\"><div class=\"v\">158,075<\/div><div class=\"k\">Acres served from Upper Klamath Lake<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-stat\"><div class=\"v\">573,848<\/div><div class=\"k\">The most the lake held all year, acre-feet \u2014 reached April 5<\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\" style=\"border-top:0;padding-top:4px;margin-bottom:4px\">\n    <h3>What the winter delivered \u2014 and what it didn\u2019t<\/h3>\n    <p><strong>The shortage was made in the mountains, not in the valley.<\/strong> Peak basin snowpack reached <strong>4% of median<\/strong> \u2014 the figure the Governor cited on <strong>May 12<\/strong> in declaring a drought emergency in Klamath County under Executive Order 26-08. Water-year precipitation finished at <strong>78% of median<\/strong>. But on the valley floor it rained: Reclamation\u2019s AgriMet stations recorded <strong>112% to 140% of median<\/strong>. Rain on the Project reduces demand; <strong>snow in the mountains is what fills the lake<\/strong>, and it did not come.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-next\" style=\"margin:14px 0 8px\">\n    <span class=\"nt2\">The lake came up six-tenths of a foot short \u2014 and that set the year<\/span>\n    <p>Reclamation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/programs\/docs\/2026-annual-operations-plan-klamath-project.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2026 Annual Operations Plan<\/strong><\/a> set one line that decided the season before it started. Under the lake\u2019s new bathymetry, <strong>Upper Klamath Lake had to reach 4,143.16 feet by April 1<\/strong> to hold the <strong>350,000 acre-feet<\/strong> of Project Supply the plan aimed at, measured above a floor of <strong>4,139.64 feet<\/strong>. Miss that line and the plan says the initial supply is simply whatever storage sits between the floor and the April 1 elevation \u2014 less the Flexible Flow Account, capped at 35,000 acre-feet, and the 7,000 acre-feet held back for the Yurok Tribe\u2019s boat dance.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>The lake reached 4,142.56 feet on April 1 and peaked at 4,142.61 on April 5.<\/strong> About <strong>six-tenths of a foot<\/strong> short. On <strong>April 6<\/strong> Reclamation determined the 2026 Project Supply at <strong>221,000 acre-feet<\/strong> \u2014 roughly <strong>63% of a full supply<\/strong>, and the figure every number in this record is measured against.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <tr><th>Upper Klamath Lake<\/th><th>Elevation<\/th><th>Storage<\/th><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>October 1, 2025 \u2014 the water year opens<\/td><td class=\"n\">4,139.28 ft<\/td><td class=\"n\">249,248 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>March 1 \u2014 the irrigation season opens<\/td><td class=\"n\">4,142.01 ft<\/td><td class=\"n\">511,976 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td>April 1 \u2014 the date the plan measures<span class=\"cs\">4,143.16 ft was needed for a 350,000 AF supply<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">4,142.56 ft<\/td><td class=\"n\">568,673 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>April 5 \u2014 the season\u2019s peak<\/td><td class=\"n\">4,142.61 ft<\/td><td class=\"n\">573,848 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>September 30 \u2014 the water year closes<\/td><td class=\"n\">4,138.93 ft<\/td><td class=\"n\">219,838 AF<\/td><\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n    <p style=\"font-size:13.5px;color:#6b7280;margin-top:2px\">Elevations and storage are Reclamation\u2019s measured daily record. The end-of-season target in the plan was 4,139.50 feet if the lake filled; it did not, and the plan allowed operating down to 4,137.16 feet to provide the supply, the Keno base flows and the boat dance.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\" style=\"border-top:0;padding-top:4px\">\n    <h3>The rules the season opened under<\/h3>\n    <p>2026 was the <strong>second year<\/strong> of operation under the <strong>2024 Biological Opinions<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/docs\/20241028-finalbiologicalopinion-nmfs-klamathproject.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMFS, October 28, 2024<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/docs\/20241115-finalbiologicalopinion-usfws-klamathproject.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, November 15, 2024<\/a> \u2014 which cover operations through 2029 and are built on Reclamation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/docs\/20241120-finalba-reclamation-klamathprojops2024-2029.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Proposed Action<\/a>. Those opinions moved the Klamath River compliance point to <strong>Keno Dam<\/strong> and reconnected <strong>Agency Lake and Barnes Ranch<\/strong> to Upper Klamath Lake. Reclamation was still evaluating what those physical changes do to the system when the 2026 season opened.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>The framework was already being reopened.<\/strong> On <strong>December 9, 2025<\/strong>, before the season began, Reclamation gave notice of intent to initiate new formal consultation under Section 7(a)(2) with both services \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/programs\/docs\/20251209-reclamation-nmfs-intent-toInitiate-consultation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMFS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/programs\/docs\/20251209-reclamation-fws-intent-toInitiate-consultation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>. In <strong>June 2026<\/strong>, mid-season, a <strong>Ninth Circuit<\/strong> ruling led Reclamation to <strong>reexamine<\/strong> its approach to consultation and to long-term operations. The 2026 season continued under the existing framework while that reexamination was under way.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\">What those rules require, and how Project Supply, Deferred Project Supply and the Flexible Flow Account differ, is set out in <a href=\"#rules\"><strong>the rules the season ran under<\/strong><\/a>. Questions about the litigation go to K.I.D.\u2019s counsel, Nathan Rietmann.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\">How the season closes<\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-close\">\n    <span class=\"ct\">How the season closes<\/span>\n    <p><strong>K.I.D. finished its 2026 season on October 15, the goal its Directors set in April.<\/strong> September rain pulled demand down faster than the supply fell, and the supply carried to that date with nothing to spare. Diversions dropped sharply in early September as the crop season wound down, then eased and held at <strong>no less than 150 cfs through October 14<\/strong>. <strong>Reclamation and K.I.D. staff installed the bulkheads on the A Canal before 10:30 on Thursday, October 15.<\/strong> K.I.D. deliveries are over for 2026, and orders still on the books cannot be filled.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"wsu-gap\">\n      <div><div class=\"gv\">Oct 15<\/div><div class=\"gk\">Bulkheads in <strong>before 10:30<\/strong> \u2014 K.I.D. deliveries ended<\/div><\/div>\n      <div><div class=\"gv\">Oct 27<\/div><div class=\"gk\">Fish recovery from the A Canal forebay, then dewatering and maintenance prep<\/div><\/div>\n      <div><div class=\"gv\">Nov 30<\/div><div class=\"gk\">The 2026 irrigation season ends<\/div><\/div>\n      <div><div class=\"gv\">~111,000 AF<\/div><div class=\"gk\">K.I.D.\u2019s projected 2026 season total<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p><strong>The rest of the supply is already committed.<\/strong> Klamath Drainage District came off this account on October 1. The balance passes to <strong>Tulelake Irrigation District<\/strong>, which keeps diverting at Station 48 to the close of the season on <strong>November 30<\/strong>. <strong>That remaining volume is committed by T.I.D. to finish their irrigation season<\/strong> \u2014 not held back, and not available to anyone else. The two dates are six weeks apart because they measure different things: October 15 was K.I.D.\u2019s, set by its Board and met; November 30 is the season\u2019s, set by Reclamation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/mp\/kbao\/programs\/docs\/2026-annual-operations-plan-klamath-project.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Annual Operations Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>After the bulkheads.<\/strong> Canals do not go straight from delivery to repair. <strong>Fish recovery from the A Canal forebay is scheduled for October 27<\/strong>, with dewatering and maintenance preparation following, giving the system time to draw down. <strong>Fish recovery comes first<\/strong>, because dewatering a canal strands whatever is living in it: crews work the pools and move fish out before the channel goes dry. An intensive maintenance season follows, with <strong>three emergency repairs already identified<\/strong> \u2014 the <strong>A Canal<\/strong>, the <strong>E Siphon<\/strong> and the <strong>B Canal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\" id=\"numbers\">The numbers in detail<\/div>\n  <div class=\"wsu-data\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-eyebrow\">2026 Season Water Tracker<\/div>\n    <h2>Where the Project's water stands<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"wsu-tiles\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">221,000<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Available \u2014 Reclamation 2026 cap<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile alert\"><div class=\"v\">390,460<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Estimated 2026 demand (1981 \/ 2018 analog)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">43<small>%<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\"><strong>K.I.D. against its own record<\/strong> \u2014 about 111,000 AF this season against a historical full-delivery average of 259,016 AF<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">57<small>%<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\"><strong>The whole Project<\/strong> \u2014 the 221,000 AF available against the 390,460 AF of estimated 2026 demand<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#4a5165;line-height:1.55;margin:10px 0 2px\"><strong>Both percentages are correct.<\/strong> The Project figure comes out higher because <strong>water K.I.D. diverts does not stop at K.I.D.<\/strong> \u2014 roughly a third moves on as return flow and spill to Tulelake Irrigation District and the refuges, where it is put to use a second time.<\/p>\n    <div style=\"font-family:'Zilla Slab',Georgia,serif;font-weight:600;color:#1b2a4e;font-size:15px;margin-top:14px\">Where the 2026 water stands \u2014 diverted, available, and short of demand<\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-thermo-wrap\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 700 118\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Combined thermometer scaled to 2026 demand of 390,460 acre-feet, graduated every 20,000 acre-feet: 212,316 acre-feet diverted through October 15, 2026, 8,684 acre-feet of supply remaining up to the 221,000 acre-foot cap, and 169,460 acre-feet short of full demand. 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Through October 15 the Project delivered <strong>13,643 acre-feet<\/strong> in the new water year, all of it charged against the 2026 supply. Live figures and patron notices are on the current water-supply update.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Past the close-out, one idea is already on the table.<\/strong> The Klamath Water Users Association has said its goal is to test <strong>Flow-Through<\/strong> in 2027 \u2014 circulating one supply through farmland, then the wildlife refuges, then back toward the Klamath River, rather than treating each as a separate destination \u2014 gathering water-quality data and measuring what returns to the river. The proposed <strong>Tule Lake Flow-Through Pilot<\/strong> is the precursor. It is KWUA\u2019s proposal, not a Reclamation operating plan, and nothing about the 2027 supply has been determined.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin-top:10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/2026\/09\/15\/preparing-for-the-2027-irrigation-season\/\"><strong>Preparing for the 2027 Irrigation Season \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"rules\">Reference \u00b7 The rules the 2026 season ran under<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">The rules the 2026 season ran under<\/span><span class=\"rs\">The supply and the single cap, the two clocks, how Reclamation classified the year, the biological opinions and the accounts, what counted against the limit, the water rights, and the District\u2019s own rules.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open the rules<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\" style=\"border-top:0;margin-top:4px;padding-top:0\">\n\n    <p><strong>Almost nothing about 2026 can be read off the figures alone.<\/strong> The District did not set the supply, the limit, the clock, or the order in which water had to be served. Those were fixed elsewhere \u2014 by Reclamation, by biological opinions, by adjudicated water rights, by a 1954 contract, and by the State of Oregon \u2014 and the District operated inside them. They are collected here so that every number in this record can be checked against the rule that produced it.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>1. The supply was deemed available by Reclamation, not allocated by the District<\/h3>\n    <p>On <strong>April 6, 2026<\/strong> Reclamation issued its water availability determination for the Klamath Project: <strong>221,000 acre-feet<\/strong> of Project Supply from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River for the 2026 irrigation season. That figure is Reclamation\u2019s. K.I.D. did not request it, agree to it, or divide it, and operating within it is not an endorsement of it.<\/p>\n    <p>For scale against the plan it came out of: Reclamation\u2019s <strong>2026 Annual Operations Plan<\/strong> set a goal of storing <strong>up to 350,000 acre-feet<\/strong> for agriculture, depending on hydrology. The hydrology delivered 221,000 \u2014 about <strong>63% of a full supply<\/strong>.<\/p>\n    <p>The 221,000 acre-feet is <strong>Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River only<\/strong>. The Project\u2019s other two reservoirs are accounted separately, and in 2026 both filled their allotments: <strong>Gerber<\/strong> and <strong>Clear Lake<\/strong> each received a full <strong>35,000 acre-foot<\/strong> supply. Water from those reservoirs is not charged against the 221,000, which is why a dry year on the lake and a full year on the east side can be true at the same time.<\/p>\n    <p>Under its <strong>1954 Operations Contract<\/strong>, K.I.D. is a <strong>distribution agent<\/strong> \u2014 it moves water to the lands entitled to it. <strong>The 1954 contract contains no apportionment clause.<\/strong> There is no provision in it that authorizes K.I.D., or anyone else, to divide a short Project Supply among the districts, and no agreed method for doing so exists. What happened in 2026 is that each district distributed and managed its own diversions inside a single Project-wide figure.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>2. One supply, two clocks \u2014 and they do not end on the same day<\/h3>\n    <p>This is the single most common source of confusion in the 2026 record, and it is worth stating plainly.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>The <strong>water year<\/strong> ran <strong>October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026<\/strong>. Inflow, storage, outflow and the long-term rankings are kept on this clock. <strong>It closed September 30, 2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n      <li>The <strong>2026 irrigation season<\/strong> ran <strong>March 1 to November 30, 2026<\/strong>, under <strong>one 221,000 acre-foot supply<\/strong>. That clock crossed the water-year boundary on October 1 and kept running, still bound to the same limit.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>So deliveries made in October and November 2026 fall in <strong>water year 2027<\/strong> but are charged against the <strong>2026<\/strong> supply. Through September 30 the Project had delivered <strong>198,673 acre-feet<\/strong>; the balance of the season adds to that same total rather than starting a new one.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>3. How Reclamation classified the year \u2014 and what it classifies on<\/h3>\n    <p>Reclamation does not classify a Klamath Project water year on its annual total. It classifies on <strong>April\u2013September net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake<\/strong> \u2014 the window that actually fills the lake and supplies the crop.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <tr><th>Year type<\/th><th>April\u2013September net inflow to UKL<\/th><th>Where 2026 fell<\/th><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Above average<\/td><td class=\"n\">above 500 TAF<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Below average<\/td><td class=\"n\">312 \u2013 500 TAF<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Dry<\/td><td class=\"n\">185 \u2013 312 TAF<\/td><td><strong>2026: 204,231 AF<\/strong> \u2014 a <em>dry<\/em> year, <strong>19,231 acre-feet<\/strong> above the <em>critical<\/em> threshold<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Critical<\/td><td class=\"n\">below 185 TAF<\/td><td>No year in the record has ever reached this tier<\/td><\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n    <p>Measured that way, 2026 was the <strong>4th driest of 65 years<\/strong>. Measured as a water-year total it was the 8th driest of 46 \u2014 an ordinary dry year. Both are correct, and the gap between them is the finding of 2026: <strong>roughly three-quarters of the year\u2019s water arrived before April<\/strong>, when it does the irrigation season no good.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>4. The biological opinions and the annual operations plan set the river first<\/h3>\n    <p>Project operations in 2026 ran under the <strong>2024 Biological Opinions<\/strong> and Reclamation\u2019s <strong>2026 Annual Operations Plan<\/strong>. Together they fix the Upper Klamath Lake elevations that must be held for the endangered suckers, the flow targets that must be met below Keno Dam for coho salmon, and the accounts that hold water for specific purposes. In practice those requirements are satisfied first, and <strong>Project Supply is what the rules leave over.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p>Three accounts shaped the 2026 figures and are often mistaken for farm water:<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li><strong>Project Supply<\/strong> \u2014 the 221,000 acre-feet. This is the only account charged for irrigation delivery.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Deferred Project Supply (DPS)<\/strong> \u2014 return flow through the Lost River Diversion Channel and F\/FF pumping that the districts move and send back downriver to help meet the Keno targets. <strong>47,430 acre-feet<\/strong> in 2026, with <strong>4,113 acre-feet<\/strong> of balance still available on October 8.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Flexible Flow Account (FFA)<\/strong> \u2014 water held for timed river releases. A specified proportion of the calculated Keno releases between <strong>October 1 and March 1<\/strong> is held back and stored in Upper Klamath Lake, for use between <strong>March 2 and June 30<\/strong>. The WY2027 account had accrued <strong>557 acre-feet<\/strong> by October 8.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p><strong>How that reads on a single day.<\/strong> Reclamation\u2019s Keno release target for <strong>October 8, 2026<\/strong> was <strong>760 cfs<\/strong> \u2014 the <strong>750 cfs<\/strong> base flow, adjusted by the river model and reduced by about <strong>29 cfs<\/strong> to fill the Flexible Flow Account. That is the mechanism in miniature: the river target is set first, and water held back for the spring comes off the top of it.<\/p>\n    <p>The <strong>boat dance flow<\/strong> is the clearest example of the distinction. Reclamation released about <strong>7,000 acre-feet<\/strong> below Keno on August 28\u201330 for the Yurok Tribe\u2019s biennial World Renewal ceremony. That volume was reserved earlier in the year under the biological opinions and the operations plan, held separately, and <strong>did not come out of the 221,000 acre-feet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <h3>5. What counted against the limit \u2014 and what did not<\/h3>\n    <p>The 221,000 acre-foot figure is an accounting rule as much as a volume, and the accounting changed during the season as Reclamation and the districts reconciled. For this record, deliveries charged against the supply are <strong>A Canal + Miller Hill + Station 48 + Klamath Drainage District (North and Ady)<\/strong>, with three adjustments:<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li><strong>Ady-to-Refuge deliveries are deducted<\/strong> \u2014 refuge water is not Project irrigation supply.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>September Anderson-Rose Dam releases are counted as refuge deliveries, not Project deliveries<\/strong>, and are deducted. This is the change that moved the reported September 30 total from 202,543 to <strong>198,673 acre-feet<\/strong>; it is a change of basis, not a correction of the gage record.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Klamath Drainage District came off the cap on October 1<\/strong> and moved to its fall and winter water rights. Its diversions after that date are not charged against the 221,000 acre-feet.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>On this basis the District\u2019s tracker and Reclamation\u2019s own Total Ag figure agree to within <strong>25 acre-feet<\/strong> through October 7 \u2014 205,025 against Reclamation\u2019s rounded 205,000. The two also agree on what is left: Reclamation\u2019s October 8 projection assumes <strong>roughly 16,000 acre-feet<\/strong> of remaining Project Supply, against the tracker\u2019s <strong>15,975<\/strong>. That agreement is the reason this basis is the one published here.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>6. Water rights set who is served, and in what order<\/h3>\n    <p>K.I.D. delivers to <strong>73,650.6 contracted acres<\/strong> through the A Canal and the Miller Hill pumps, and its works can reach a further <strong>60,964.1 acres<\/strong> under <strong>Article 14<\/strong> of the 1954 contract \u2014 <strong>134,615 acres<\/strong> in all, against contract volumes totalling <strong>223,822 acre-feet<\/strong>. Three separate limits apply to those acres, and <strong>where they disagree the lowest one governs<\/strong>: the <strong>3.5 acre-feet per acre<\/strong> adjudicated duty, each district\u2019s own contract volume, and the <strong>0.75 acre-feet per acre<\/strong> Reclamation directed for Warren Act contractors in 2026.<\/p>\n    <p>Seniority sets the order of service. It does not exempt anyone from a wait list \u2014 it decides where on the list they sit. The order in K.I.D. is <strong>VBDC (1883)<\/strong>, then <strong>Henley-Ankeny (1884)<\/strong>, then <strong>K.I.D. 13(a) \u201cA contract\u201d holders (1905)<\/strong>, then <strong>Warren Act 13(b) and (c) \u201cB contract\u201d deliveries (1911)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n    <p>Seasons of use are adjudicated too, and they are why the irrigation season outlasts K.I.D.\u2019s own deliveries: Tulelake Irrigation District keeps diverting at <strong>Station 48<\/strong> after K.I.D. has shut down, to the close of the season on <strong>November 30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"margin-top:10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/water_rights\/\"><strong>Every district and contract, with acreage, volume, priority date and 2026 limit \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n    <h3>7. The rules themselves were in motion during 2026<\/h3>\n    <p>The 2026 season was operated under the <strong>2024 Proposed Action<\/strong> and biological opinions, but the framework around them did not stand still. Reclamation <strong>completed an ESA reassessment in early 2026 and began a new consultation<\/strong>. In <strong>June 2026<\/strong> a <strong>Ninth Circuit<\/strong> ruling led Reclamation to <strong>reexamine<\/strong> its approach to consultation and to long-term operations. Reclamation is planning near-term operations for the 2027 water year while that work proceeds, with the water users\u2019 associations and the districts participating.<\/p>\n    <p>In Congress, <strong>H.R. 8259<\/strong>, the <em>Federal Water Projects Consultation Improvement Act of 2026<\/em>, was introduced in April by <strong>Rep. Cliff Bentz<\/strong>, with <strong>Rep. Russ Fulcher<\/strong> as cosponsor; it would give Reclamation contractors more opportunity to participate in consultations.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\">These are recorded here as facts about the year, not as the District\u2019s reading of them. <strong>Questions about the litigation or what it requires should go to K.I.D.\u2019s counsel, Nathan Rietmann.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <h3>8. The State of Oregon regulated the lake, and that governed the refuges<\/h3>\n    <p>Diversion from Upper Klamath Lake is also subject to <strong>Oregon Water Resources Department<\/strong> regulation for the Klamath Tribes\u2019 adjudicated water-right elevations. In 2026 that rule, not a District decision, set when water could move to the refuges: OWRD lifted regulation and water moved through the districts to the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath refuges <strong>August 14\u201324<\/strong>; on August 24 the lake reached the elevation at which regulation resumes and <strong>deliveries stopped.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <h3>9. The District\u2019s own rules, which it does control<\/h3>\n    <p>Inside all of the above, these are K.I.D.\u2019s own rules, adopted by its Board and enforced under the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-09_WATER-DELIVERY-POLICY_Updated.pdf\"><strong>K.I.D. Water Delivery Policy<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li><strong>Order water on, and order it off.<\/strong> Every time. Water orders run on a minimum <strong>12-hour set<\/strong> and require <strong>24-hour prior notice<\/strong>, because from Upper Klamath Lake water can take more than <strong>96 hours<\/strong> to reach the far end of some canals \u2014 and it moves slower at low flow. Once water is on its way, it cannot be put back in the lake.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Use water only on permitted acres, in a beneficial manner.<\/strong> Water running down roads, into drains, or sitting unused in ditches is a violation.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Waste has consequences.<\/strong> Under Section 3 of the policy they escalate: written warning, then fines up to <strong>$5,000<\/strong>, then shut-off of delivery.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Inter-account transfers were capped<\/strong> at 0.5 acre-feet per acre per month for 2026.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>SWAP<\/strong>, the District\u2019s own idling program, closed enrollment July 1 with <strong>1,022 acres<\/strong> off Project surface water for the season.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-policy\" style=\"background:#f6eef0;border-color:#e0c3c8;border-left-color:#8e1a29\">\n      <span class=\"plab maroon\">10. The one rule the District maintains does not exist<\/span>\n      <p><strong>K.I.D.\u2019s position is that no water right authorizes the release of stored water from Upper Klamath Lake for instream flow down the Klamath River.<\/strong> Stored water is not natural flow. It was captured, held and paid for under the Project\u2019s works and contracts, and the Project\u2019s contract holders bear the cost of storing it.<\/p>\n      <p style=\"margin-bottom:0\">Project farms operated in 2026 under a hard 221,000 acre-foot ceiling, enforced to the acre-foot and accounted for daily. The releases at Keno operated under no equivalent limit. What that meant in volume is set out in <a href=\"#part7\"><strong>Part 7<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part2\">Part 2 \u00b7 The 2026 operations log<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 2 \u00b7 The 2026 operations log<\/span><span class=\"rs\">Every dated entry of the season in one place \u2014 what was decided, what was delivered, what Reclamation and the State did, and every operating notice issued to patrons.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open the log<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n  <div class=\"wsu-log\">\n    <div class=\"lhead\"><span class=\"lt\">2026 operations log<\/span><span class=\"ls\">A dated record of the season, including every operating notice issued to patrons \u2014 what was decided, what was delivered, and when. Kept for the annual operations history; entries are added as the season runs and are not removed.<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">All season<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Water was served in priority order, as the policy requires.<\/b> Seniority decides where an account sits on the wait list; it does not exempt anyone from one. The order is <b>VBDC (1883)<\/b>, <b>Henley-Ankeny (1884)<\/b>, <b>K.I.D. 13(a) holders (1905)<\/b>, then <b>Warren Act 13(b) and (c) deliveries (1911)<\/b> \u2014 everyone junior first-call, first-served, on 24-hour notice. The basis is in <a href=\"#rules\">the rules<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/water_rights\/\">Water Rights<\/a> page.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">All season<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Moss in the canals, and the higher flows used to clear it.<\/b> Low supply forced canals to run at low flow with little or no spill \u2014 the condition moss grows fastest in. Basin-wide rather than a K.I.D. condition: Reclamation contended with the same growth at <b>Keno Dam<\/b>, where it made the release target harder to hold. Worst inside the District on the <b>D and F1 canals<\/b>. Chemical treatment reaches only some of the species present and repeated use risks resistance, so <b>K.I.D. raised flows in D and F1 for short periods to chain the moss out<\/b>, then held those flows up \u2014 the water has to keep moving or the moss stands back up within days. Patrons saw it as changes at the turnout. All of it accounted for inside the 221,000 acre-feet.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 1, 2025<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Water Year 2026 began. Supply and accountability figures run on this clock through September 30, 2026.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Mar 3<\/div><div class=\"logt\">First Project diversion of the season. K.I.D. began diverting <b>March 17<\/b>.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Apr 5<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Upper Klamath Lake storage peaked at 573,848 acre-feet<\/b> \u2014 the season\u2019s high point, including carryover from 2025.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Apr 6<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reclamation issued its water availability determination: <b>221,002 acre-feet<\/b> of Project supply for 2026, well below full irrigation demand.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">April<\/div><div class=\"logt\">K.I.D. Board adopted an October 15 delivery goal for the season.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Apr 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Warren Act deliveries set at 0.75 acre-feet per acre.<\/b> Reclamation signed the letter directing that volume for 2026. K.I.D. delivers Warren Act water to <b>seven districts and individual lands covering 114 contracts<\/b>. See the District's <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/home\/history\/warren-act-of-1911\/\">Warren Act of 1911<\/a> page for how that priority and delivery work.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">May 12<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Governor Kotek declared a <b>drought emergency in Klamath County<\/b> by Executive Order 26-08, citing Klamath Basin snow water equivalent at <b>4% of normal<\/b>. The declaration unlocks state drought tools, including expedited review by the Oregon Water Resources Department.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">May 13<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>K.I.D. diversions peaked at 501 cfs.<\/b> Project diversions ran above 1,000 cfs in the spring.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">May 19<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reclamation\u2019s Acting Regional Director requested a District operations plan.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">May 22<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reclamation issued a directed water management plan to the districts.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">May 30<\/div><div class=\"logt\">The districts issued a <b>draft proposed plan to carry deliveries to September 30<\/b>.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jun 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reclamation <b>rescinded<\/b> the May 22 directed water management plan.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jun 3<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Project diversions fell to their spring low of 209 cfs as supply was managed down.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jun 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Drought Response Agency application window closed.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jun 23<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>K.I.D.\u2019s water-order wait list peaked at 57 orders<\/b> \u2014 the season\u2019s high, reached before the SWAP and Drought Response Agency acreage was known. No other district was running a wait list. <b>The list peaked once and was worked off rather than carried.<\/b><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jul 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>SWAP enrollment closed at 1,022 acres<\/b> idled from Project surface water; as that acreage firmed up the wait list came down.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Jul 31<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Enterprise Irrigation District met its full 0.75 acre-feet per acre<\/b>, together with the K.B.I.D. acres served through Enterprise; the operator ceased pumping. Delivery update issued to affected contractors \u2014 the first of the seven Warren Act districts to finish.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 5<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Wrights Spring Fire started southeast of Chiloquin. K.I.D. posted a separate notice on livestock, evacuation and water.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 12<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Board authorized and agreed that September 30 is the shared goal<\/b> for the season, and directed a short canal flush to clear moss.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 14\u201324<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Water moved through the districts to the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath refuges<\/b> after OWRD lifted regulation of Upper Klamath Lake. About 9,000 acre-feet reached the refuges before flows stopped on August 24 (Reclamation is finalizing the accounting). Whole-Project diversions rose above 1,000 cfs while K.I.D. deliveries held steady.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 20<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Oregon Department of Agriculture issued its September\u2013November Seasonal Climate Forecast.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 23<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Project diversions peaked for the season at 1,100 cfs<\/b>, most of the increase passing through to the refuges.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 24<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Upper Klamath Lake reached the elevation at which regulation resumes and <b>water stopped flowing to the refuges<\/b>. <b>171,503 acre-feet delivered, 49,497 remaining.<\/b><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 27<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reclamation approved a <b>Flow Augmentation Release<\/b> for salmon health in the lower Klamath: every fish sampled infected with <b>Ich<\/b>, water temperature 23.2\u00b0C. Flows below Lewiston Dam raised from 450 to as much as 1,200 cfs, about <b>35,000 acre-feet from Trinity Reservoir<\/b> \u2014 not from the Klamath Project.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 28\u201330<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Yurok Tribe boat dance flow released below Keno<\/b> for the biennial World Renewal ceremony \u2014 about 7,000 acre-feet, reserved earlier in the year and held separately from Project supply. The first such ceremony since dam removal.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Aug 31<\/div><div class=\"logt\">With refuge deliveries ended, Project diversions back to <b>593 cfs<\/b>. <b>180,513 acre-feet delivered, 40,487 remaining<\/b> \u2014 18.3% of the available supply. Wait list clear.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Botulism mortality at Tule Lake down sharply from about 500 a day at the peak from about 500 at the peak; refuge crews banded <b>more than 3,000<\/b> juvenile and flightless adult birds over two nights in Unit 2. Klamath River flows ramping back toward a <b>750 cfs base flow<\/b> by September 9\u201310.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Reporting put the 2026 botulism toll at Tule Lake at <b>13,730 birds<\/b>, above the 10,800+ the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated in late August.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sampled <b>Gerber Reservoir<\/b> for cyanotoxins. <b>None detected<\/b> \u2014 anatoxin-a, cylindrospermopsin, microcystin and saxitoxin all below detection \u2014 though a moderate amount of <i>Aphanizomenon<\/i> was present and a bloom has been visible since at least May. One further sample is planned before the season closes. Gerber serves the east side of the Project and is not a K.I.D. supply.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 8<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Botulism mortality at Tule Lake down to about <b>5\u201310 birds a day<\/b>. Deliveries from Upper Klamath Lake ended August 24, but <b>return flows from District operations continue to reach the refuges<\/b>.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 8<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Rain of about <b>0.62 inches<\/b> for the month stabilized Upper Klamath Lake \u2014 the daily decline flattened to about <b>0.01 feet a day<\/b> from roughly 0.045 in late August; cooler weather lowered crop demand. Keno Dam back at its <b>750 cfs<\/b> base flow. <b>K.I.D. began ramping down<\/b> while keeping the A Canal flowing for late-season demand. Station 48 reduced to 25 cfs to manage return flows from the rain.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Upper Klamath Lake holding at <b>4139.10 ft<\/b> \u2014 down only 0.05 ft in ten days. Ten-day average inflow <b>908 cfs<\/b>, with about 400 cfs forecast for the coming week. Water-year inflow <b>780,300 acre-feet<\/b>. Keno target 654 cfs. Deferred Project Supply balance down to <b>8,168 acre-feet<\/b>. <b>185,770 acre-feet used, 35,230 remaining.<\/b><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Malin Irrigation District met its full 0.75 acre-feet per acre<\/b>, together with the K.B.I.D. acres served through Malin; the operator stopped pumping. <b>Two of the seven Warren Act districts complete<\/b>, along with many individual contracts.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Botulism <b>confirmed by USGS laboratory results<\/b>; mortality steady at about <b>20\u201325 birds per unit per day<\/b>, with a hard freeze expected to end the outbreak. <b>Lower Klamath opened for waterfowl hunting<\/b> on the strength of Unit 2 water levels. K.I.D. cut recirculation pumps, raised A Canal flow, and began directing water not taken at the field to <b>groundwater recharge and Spring Lake<\/b>. Klamath Drainage District will move to its fall and winter water rights on <b>October 1<\/b>.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 13<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Anglers met the <b>Lower Klamath adult fall-run Chinook quota<\/b> below the Highway 96 Bridge at Weitchpec, closing the adult fishery from that bridge to the mouth. The river mouth had closed Sept 2. Jack Chinook fishing continues below Highway 96; adult fishing continues above Weitchpec and on the Trinity.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 16<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Upper Klamath Lake at <b>4139.20 ft<\/b> and holding with a slight uptick. Water-year net inflow <b>785,901 acre-feet<\/b> (about 80% of the period-of-record median). Keno target 754 cfs; Deferred Project Supply balance down to <b>7,924 acre-feet<\/b>. <b>186,930 acre-feet used, 34,070 remaining.<\/b> Klamath Falls precipitation for the water year <b>10.08 inches<\/b>, about 87% of normal for the date. (The year finished at <b>10.25 inches<\/b> against an 11.27-inch period-of-record average.) Trinity flows remain up for fish health.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 17<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Oregon Department of Agriculture issued its <b>October\u2013December seasonal climate forecast<\/b>. El Ni\u00f1o has turned <b>strong<\/b> \u2014 the June\u2013August ocean index reached <b>+1.8\u00b0C<\/b> \u2014 and is expected to become <b>very strong<\/b> through the 2026\u201327 winter. Blended across the 1972, 1982 and 2023 analog years, the outlook shows <b>no significant departure from average<\/b> in temperature or precipitation; the forecaster notes the analogs disagree in October, which lowers confidence for that month.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 27<\/div><div class=\"logt\">Water-year net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake <b>803,778 acre-feet<\/b>, with <b>606,749 acre-feet<\/b> passed over Keno Dam. <b>199,684 acre-feet used, 21,316 remaining<\/b> against the 221,002 acre-foot cap \u2014 about 10% left. <b>No farmers on the wait list.<\/b> Deliveries continue toward the October 15 end date.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 30<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Water year 2026 closed.<\/b> Net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake finished at <b>805,415 acre-feet<\/b> \u2014 about <b>77% of the 65-year mean<\/b> \u2014 with <b>611,270 acre-feet<\/b> passed over Keno Dam and <b>202,543 acre-feet<\/b> delivered to Project farms <i>(later restated to 198,673 \u2014 see October 1)<\/i>. Upper Klamath Lake ended the year at <b>4138.93 ft<\/b> holding <b>219,838 acre-feet<\/b>; peak storage was <b>573,848 acre-feet<\/b> on April 5. Deferred Project Supply balance down to <b>5,537 acre-feet<\/b>. <b>18,459 acre-feet<\/b> of the supply remain for the closing weeks <i>(22,327 on the restated basis)<\/i>. Klamath Drainage District comes off this account today and moves to its fall and winter water rights.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Sep 22<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Final Gerber Reservoir cyanotoxin sample of 2026 \u2014 none detected<\/b>, across anatoxin-a, cylindrospermopsin, microcystin and saxitoxin, despite a bloom visible in the reservoir since at least May. September river sampling also came in lower than August: twelve samples, highest <b>0.73 \u00b5g\/L<\/b>, all below the 0.8 threshold California uses for a Caution advisory.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Water year 2027 began.<\/b> Reclamation's Keno release target for the day is <b>757 cfs<\/b> \u2014 the 750 cfs base flow plus a Flexible Flow Account adjustment. Water year 2026 closed with Upper Klamath Lake net inflow of <b>805,415 acre-feet<\/b>, which Reclamation records as the <b>8th driest of its 46 years of record \u2014 the 17th percentile<\/b>, at <b>81% of median<\/b> and <b>70% of average<\/b>. Chinook were observed at the Keno and Link River fish ladders beginning September 22. <b>Next Reclamation operations planning meeting: October 8.<\/b><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Water-year accounting closed.<\/b> Project deliveries charged against the 221,000 acre-foot supply finished at <b>198,673 acre-feet<\/b> through September 30 \u2014 the water-year share of a season that runs to November 30. K.I.D.'s own diversions were <b>103,706 acre-feet<\/b> \u2014 90,358 through the A Canal and 13,348 through the Miller Hill pumps. Season analysis added: between May 1 and September 30 the river carried away <b>121,235 acre-feet<\/b> more at Keno than the lake took in. <i>Basis note: reconciliation with Reclamation moved September Anderson-Rose Dam releases from Project delivery to refuge delivery, which restated the figure first reported as 202,543.<\/i><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 1<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>The last two weeks \u2014 plan your final set.<\/b> A Canal near <b>230 cfs<\/b> and trailing down through the second week of the month; patrons asked to order a last set and to call it off the moment they finished. Recirculation pumps cut and A Canal flow raised, with water not taken at the field directed to <b>groundwater recharge and Spring Lake<\/b> rather than out of the system. September rain of about <b>0.62 inches<\/b> steadied Upper Klamath Lake \u2014 the daily decline flattened from roughly 0.045 feet a day to about 0.01 \u2014 and cooler weather pulled crop demand down, a large part of why deliveries carried past the month. Keno Dam held its <b>750 cfs<\/b> base flow through the close of September.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 7<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>First week of water year 2027, still on the 2026 supply.<\/b> Deliveries charged against the 221,000 acre-foot supply reached <b>205,025 acre-feet<\/b>, leaving <b>15,975<\/b> \u2014 <b>198,673<\/b> of it in water year 2026 and <b>6,352<\/b> in water year 2027. Upper Klamath Lake at <b>4138.82 ft<\/b>, down 0.11 ft in the seven days since the water year closed. Ten-day mean net inflow <b>783 cfs<\/b>. Zero orders on the wait list.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 8<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Reclamation operations planning meeting.<\/b> Keno release target for the day <b>760 cfs<\/b> \u2014 the 750 cfs base flow, reduced about <b>29 cfs<\/b> to fill the Flexible Flow Account. Deferred Project Supply balance <b>4,113 acre-feet<\/b> of the 47,430 accrued; WY2027 Flexible Flow Account at <b>557 acre-feet<\/b>. Reclamation's own projection assumes roughly <b>16,000 acre-feet<\/b> of Project Supply remaining, against the District's <b>15,975<\/b>. June 1 forecast called for 75,000 acre-feet of June\u2013September inflow; actual came in at <b>79,700<\/b>. Refuge reporting: carcass removal stopped for the hunt season, U.S.D.A. A.P.H.I.S. sampling for influenza trend, and cold temperatures expected to end botulism germination. Tule Lake Sump 1A <b>4,034.64 ft<\/b>, Sump 1B <b>4,035.11 ft<\/b>.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 10<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>District position: the 2026 supply is fully committed.<\/b> The volume remaining under the 221,000 acre-feet is committed to <b>Tulelake Irrigation District<\/b> to finish its irrigation season. No unassigned water remains in the 2026 supply.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 10<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Close-out dates confirmed.<\/b> Bulkheads before noon <b>October 15<\/b>; dewatering, maintenance preparation and fish salvage from <b>October 27<\/b>. <b>Maintenance ahead:<\/b> Shot Creek work planned for October and liable to move to late October or early November, and the emergency repair of the <b>e-siphon under Highway 140<\/b> scheduled for this winter once the system is shut in.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 14<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Last full day of K.I.D. deliveries.<\/b> The District held a floor of no less than 150 cfs through this date.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 15<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Reclamation and K.I.D. staff installed the bulkheads on the A Canal before 10:30. The K.I.D. irrigation season is concluded<\/b> \u2014 meeting the October 15 goal the Board set in April. Orders still on the books cannot be filled. <b>Tulelake Irrigation District continues through November<\/b> on the balance of the 2026 supply; Klamath Drainage District moved to fall and winter operations on October 1. The District turns to its maintenance season.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow fut\"><div class=\"logd\">Oct 27<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>Fish recovery from the A Canal forebay, then dewatering and maintenance preparation.<\/b> Fish recovery runs ahead of dewatering so that fish are moved out of the pools before the channel goes dry. An intensive maintenance season follows, with no fewer than three emergency repairs already identified \u2014 the A Canal, the E Siphon and the B Canal.<\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"logrow fut\"><div class=\"logd\">Nov 30<\/div><div class=\"logt\"><b>The 2026 irrigation season ends.<\/b> Tulelake Irrigation District carries the remaining supply to this date, and the 221,000 acre-feet is projected to be delivered in full.<\/div><\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part3\">Part 3 \u00b7 How 2026 compares<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 3 \u00b7 How 2026 compares<\/span><span class=\"rs\">The year set against the record \u2014 inflow on both clocks, the filling season, snowpack, the supply, water per acre, and the two shutoff years it was not.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open the comparison<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n  <div class=\"wsu-hist\">\n    <span class=\"ht\">How 2026 compares \u2014 the year against the record<\/span>\n    <p>The District maintains a reconstruction of what the Klamath would have done without the Project, run on Reclamation's own measured daily inflow for every water year from <strong>1961 to 2025<\/strong>. That work, and the era-by-era comparison behind it, lives on the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/water-dashboard\/\"><strong>Water Dashboard<\/strong><\/a>. Here is where 2026 falls in it.<\/p>\n\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <tr><th>Measure<\/th><th>2026<\/th><th>The record it sits in<\/th><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td>Net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake<\/td><td class=\"n\">805,415 AF<\/td><td><strong>8th driest of the 46 years Reclamation tracks (1981\u20132026) \u2014 the 17th percentile.<\/strong> That is <strong>81% of that period's median<\/strong> and <strong>70% of its average<\/strong>. Measured against the longer 65-year series it is <strong>20th driest of 65 \u2014 the 30th percentile<\/strong>, or <strong>77% of the 65-year mean<\/strong> of 1,052,524 AF, about 247,000 acre-feet short of an ordinary year. Both are correct: the years before 1981 include a markedly drier stretch, which lifts 2026's rank in the longer record.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td>Inflow in the filling season<span class=\"cs\">April\u2013September, the window Reclamation classifies on<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">204,231 AF<\/td><td><strong>4th driest of the 65 years on record (1962\u20132026) \u2014 the 6th percentile.<\/strong> That is <strong>54% of the 65-year median<\/strong> of 379,453 AF, and only <strong>19,231 acre-feet<\/strong> above the 185,000 acre-foot <em>critical<\/em> threshold \u2014 a tier <strong>no year in the record has ever reached<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td>Peak basin snowpack<\/td><td class=\"n\">4% of median<\/td><td>The figure the Governor cited in declaring a drought emergency. Snow, not valley rain, is what fills the lake.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Supply deemed available to the Project<\/td><td class=\"n\">221,000 AF<\/td><td><strong>63%<\/strong> of the 349,456 AF that agriculture drew from the lake in a fully supplied <em>critically dry<\/em> year \u2014 the benchmark set from the 25 years demand was met in full.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>K.I.D. supply per contracted acre<span class=\"cs\">district-wide average \u2014 not what any field received<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">1.51 AF\/ac<\/td><td><strong>43%<\/strong> of the 3.5 acre-feet per acre adjudicated duty; <strong>67%<\/strong> of the District's 2.24 acre-foot historical average. <strong>No individual field was served 1.51.<\/strong> This is the season's diversion spread across all 73,650.6 contracted acres: some were served their full legal duty, and many were fallowed under SWAP or the Drought Response Agency and served none.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Deliveries curtailed?<\/td><td class=\"n\">No<\/td><td>Unlike <strong>2001<\/strong> and <strong>2021<\/strong>, the two shutoff years in the record, water was delivered all season \u2014 at a fraction of demand, but without a shutoff.<\/td><\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n\n    <p><strong>Two true rankings, and the difference is the finding.<\/strong> The water-year total puts 2026 eighth driest of 46. The April\u2013September window \u2014 the variable Reclamation actually uses to classify Project water years \u2014 puts it <strong>fourth driest of 65<\/strong>. Both are correct; they measure different halves of the year. <strong>2026 delivered the smallest April\u2013September share of its annual inflow of any year in the 46-year record: 25.4%, against a median of 35.3%.<\/strong> Three-quarters of the water year's inflow had arrived before 1 April. A near-normal winter carried the annual total; the spring and summer that fill the lake and supply the season ranked fourth worst in sixty-five years. <strong>The window that governs delivery is the one that failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p><strong>What kind of year this was.<\/strong> On inflow alone, <strong>2026 was a dry year but not an extreme one<\/strong>. At 805,415 acre-feet it is the <strong>8th driest of 46 years<\/strong> on Reclamation's record \u2014 the <strong>17th percentile<\/strong>, at <strong>81% of median<\/strong> and <strong>70% of average<\/strong> \u2014 and the <strong>20th driest of 65 years<\/strong> on the longer series, the <strong>30th percentile<\/strong>, at <strong>77% of the mean<\/strong>. The two disagree because the years before 1981 include a markedly drier stretch. The genuinely extreme years were far below it: 2021 at 478,073 acre-feet, 2001 at 545,992, 2022 at 614,390, 2020 at 653,990.<\/p><p><strong>Which is what makes 2026 worth understanding.<\/strong> Reclamation's normalized wetness index put <strong>2015<\/strong> as the closest analog year \u2014 and 2015 ran <strong>wetter<\/strong>, at 818,986 acre-feet. A <strong>4% snowpack<\/strong> alongside near-normal valley rain is an unusual combination, and it is why inflow came in far below what the precipitation figures alone would suggest. The shortage patrons felt this year did not come from the driest hydrology on record; it came from a middling-dry year meeting the rules now in place.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>The longer pattern matters more than any single year.<\/strong> The dashboard's era analysis shows that since 2001, under successive biological opinions, the river, the lake and the farms have all received less than they did under the contract era \u2014 the farms most of all. Agriculture's draw fell from <strong>99% of its need<\/strong> under contracts to <strong>89%<\/strong> by the 2013\u20132019 opinion, and to <strong>51%<\/strong> under the 2020 opinion. The cumulative shortfall against that benchmark since 2001 totals <strong>1,567,380 acre-feet<\/strong>, of which <strong>537,917 acre-feet<\/strong> was paid out to fallow ground. <strong>2026, at 63% of a critically dry year's benchmark, belongs to that pattern rather than standing outside it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <p class=\"note\">Sixty-five-year figures, the natural-flow reconstruction, and the era comparison are from the District's <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/water-dashboard\/\">Water Dashboard<\/a>, which sets out its methods and sources in full. Net inflow is Reclamation's measured daily record; the 2026 figure is the full water year, closed September 30.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part4\">Part 4 \u00b7 What the shortage cost<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 4 \u00b7 What the shortage cost<\/span><span class=\"rs\">What the shortage meant on the ground, crop by crop against what each needs, and what the idling programs took out of production.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open the record<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n    <p class=\"cropnote\" style=\"margin:14px 0 10px\">Who K.I.D. serves, and the three limits that govern those acres, are set out in <a href=\"#rules\"><strong>the rules<\/strong><\/a>. Every district and contract \u2014 acreage, volume, priority date and 2026 limit, checked against the Klamath Adjudication\u2019s Corrected Partial Order of Determination \u2014 is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/water_rights\/\"><strong>Water Rights<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n        <div class=\"wsu-ground\">\n    <span class=\"gt\">What the shortage meant on the ground<\/span>\n    <p>The figures above describe the water. This is what it came to on the farm.<\/p>\n    <p>K.I.D. is set to <strong>finish the season having diverted roughly 111,000 acre-feet<\/strong>. Spread across the <strong>73,650.6 contracted acres<\/strong> K.I.D. serves directly, that is <strong>about 1.51 acre-feet per acre<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>an average, and no field was served it<\/strong>. Some acres were served their full legal duty; many were fallowed under SWAP or the Drought Response Agency and served none. The average is the right way to size the season against the record and the wrong way to picture a farm. Those are the acres K.I.D. serves directly by way of the A Canal and the Miller Hill pumps, without accounting for the return flows to T.I.D. and the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges.<\/p><p>At the <strong>3.5 acre-feet per acre<\/strong> adjudicated duty, a fully supplied year on that acreage would be <strong>257,777 acre-feet<\/strong>. That is not a paper figure: <strong>historically, full deliveries through the A Canal have averaged 259,016 acre-feet<\/strong> \u2014 within <strong>half a percent<\/strong> of it \u2014 with a median of <strong>266,791<\/strong> and a range of <strong>216,149 to 284,132<\/strong>. <\/p><p><strong>The contracts themselves add up to less than the right.<\/strong> Summed district by district, the stated contract volumes behind those acres come to <strong>223,822 acre-feet<\/strong> \u2014 because the Warren Act contracts cap their districts at 2.0 to 2.5 acre-feet per acre, below the 3.5 the adjudication confirms. Where a right and a contract disagree, the lower figure governs. The full breakdown is on the District's <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/district-governance-accountability\/water_rights\/\"><strong>Water Rights<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p><p>Against that record, the roughly <strong>111,000 acre-feet<\/strong> K.I.D. will have diverted in 2026 is about <strong>43%<\/strong> of a full-delivery year \u2014 and only <strong>half<\/strong> of the lowest full-delivery year on record.<\/p><p><strong>Diverted is not the same as delivered.<\/strong> K.I.D. is about <strong>63% efficient<\/strong> at the field; the rest moves on as return flow and spill to <strong>Tulelake Irrigation District<\/strong> and the <strong>refuges<\/strong>. That water is not lost \u2014 it is delivered onward, and the Project as a whole runs better than <strong>93% efficient<\/strong>. (The 42% and 57% figures behind this are set out under <em>The numbers in detail<\/em> above.)<\/p><div class=\"wsu-peracre\">\n      <div><div class=\"pv\">1.51 AF\/ac<\/div><div class=\"pk\">The season averaged across all 73,650.6 contracted acres \u2014 not a per-field figure<\/div><\/div>\n\n      <div><div class=\"pv\">1,022 ac<\/div><div class=\"pk\">Idled under K.I.D.'s SWAP program, enrollment closed July 1<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>What the crops actually need<\/h3>\n    <p>Reclamation's AgriMet weather station at Klamath Falls measures how much water each crop grown here uses in a season. Set against what K.I.D. put on the ground in 2026 \u2014 about <strong>0.95 acre-feet per acre<\/strong>, or 11 inches \u2014 the gap is the whole story of the year.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-crop\"><colgroup><col style=\"width:30%\"><col style=\"width:15%\"><col style=\"width:16%\"><col style=\"width:19%\"><col style=\"width:20%\"><\/colgroup>\n      <thead><tr><th>Crop<\/th><th class=\"r\">Inches needed<\/th><th class=\"r\">AF per acre<\/th><th class=\"r\">Covered in 2026<\/th><th class=\"r\">Value per acre<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr><td>Alfalfa hay<\/td><td class=\"n\">33.6<\/td><td class=\"n\">2.80<\/td><td class=\"g maroon\">34%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$1,396<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Pasture<\/td><td class=\"n\">26.8<\/td><td class=\"n\">2.23<\/td><td class=\"g maroon\">42%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$143<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Strawberry rootstock<\/td><td class=\"n\">25.5<\/td><td class=\"n\">2.12<\/td><td class=\"g maroon\">44%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$4,708<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Peppermint<\/td><td class=\"n\">24.5<\/td><td class=\"n\">2.04<\/td><td class=\"g maroon\">46%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$4,708<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Winter grain<\/td><td class=\"n\">24.1<\/td><td class=\"n\">2.01<\/td><td class=\"g rust\">47%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$663<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Onions<\/td><td class=\"n\">23.1<\/td><td class=\"n\">1.93<\/td><td class=\"g rust\">49%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$4,963<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Spring grain<\/td><td class=\"n\">22.0<\/td><td class=\"n\">1.83<\/td><td class=\"g rust\">51%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$663<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Potatoes<span class=\"cs\">the least thirsty crop grown here<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">21.6<\/td><td class=\"n\">1.80<\/td><td class=\"g rust\">52%<\/td><td class=\"val\">$4,963<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody><\/table>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>\u201cGrain\u201d on this table is wheat, barley and oats.<\/strong> Together they are <strong>about 49,500 acres \u2014 a quarter of all Project ground<\/strong>, more than any crop but hay and pasture: barley near 28,000 acres, wheat near 19,800, oats about 1,700. They are also the first thing cut. At <strong>$663 an acre<\/strong> grain is worth a fraction of vegetables, so when water runs short it absorbs the deepest reductions \u2014 the modelling behind these figures has grain water use falling <strong>33% in a mild shortage and 93% in a severe one<\/strong>, far more than any other crop. Grain is the shock absorber for the whole Project, and it is also the rotation that keeps the high-value ground healthy.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>Read the fourth column.<\/strong> It is the share of each crop's seasonal need that 2026's on-farm water covered. <strong>Alfalfa got about a third of what the crop requires.<\/strong> Potatoes, the least thirsty crop in the basin, got about half. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskiyoucounty.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fileattachments\/natural_resources\/page\/1281\/highland_economics_final_klamath_basin_agriculture_economic_analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The study behind these figures<\/a> states that crops here need <strong>at least 20 inches<\/strong> in an average year; K.I.D. diverted about 18 inches per contracted acre on average and delivered about 11 to the field.<\/p><p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>Alfalfa is hay, and hay is beef and milk.<\/strong> It is <strong>K.I.D.'s largest crop by acreage<\/strong>, and as the table above shows, the thirstiest \u2014 and it came up shortest. That happened in a year when cattle herds nationally are at their smallest in decades and beef prices are at record highs \u2014 exactly the conditions under which more feed is worth the most. <strong>Short the hay and you short the herd<\/strong>, and the cost works its way through beef, milk, cheese, butter and every product built on them. Klamath County has already seen it: the beef cow herd is down about <strong>34%<\/strong> from its 2008\u20132012 average, a decline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskiyoucounty.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fileattachments\/natural_resources\/page\/1281\/highland_economics_final_klamath_basin_agriculture_economic_analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers attribute<\/a> to reduced irrigation water rather than market conditions, since herds held steady elsewhere in Oregon over the same years.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>Which is why the order of cutting matters.<\/strong> When water runs short, growers protect the high-value ground and let the cheap ground go first \u2014 pasture at <strong>$143 an acre<\/strong>, then grain at <strong>$663<\/strong>, then hay at <strong>$1,396<\/strong>, and only last the vegetables at roughly <strong>$4,963<\/strong>. Vegetables are about <strong>12% of Project acres and 45% of Project crop value<\/strong>. That is the sequence 2026 followed.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>The damage reaches past the field, into the contracts.<\/strong> Processors have told researchers that unreliable water makes growers unwilling to sign for garlic and onions. The acreage shows it: Project garlic ran about <strong>1,600 acres in 2017<\/strong>, the last full water year, against <strong>133 acres in 2019<\/strong>. The same study concludes garlic acreage could be roughly <strong>twelve times higher<\/strong> under a reliable supply \u2014 and warns that processors may move their contracts to regions where the water is dependable. <strong>A short year costs this season's crop; a run of short years costs the contract, and the contract does not come back with the water.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>The table covers the crops AgriMet measures.<\/strong> The basin grows a good deal more than that. <strong>Garlic<\/strong> and <strong>horseradish<\/strong> are both significant \u2014 Tulelake produces roughly a third of the entire U.S. horseradish crop \u2014 alongside <strong>strawberry rootstock, seed vegetables, peppermint and spearmint<\/strong>. On a smaller scale, K.I.D. ground also produces <strong>grapes, apples, pumpkins, lettuce, spinach, micro greens and other leafy vegetables<\/strong>. None of these has a published AgriMet water requirement for this station, so none appears in the table \u2014 but all are high-value, most are grown on contract, and all carry the same exposure: the water has to be there when the contract says it will be.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\" style=\"color:#6b7280;font-size:13.5px\">Crop water requirements: Reclamation AgriMet station, Klamath Falls. Crop values, acreage and contract findings: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siskiyoucounty.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fileattachments\/natural_resources\/page\/1281\/highland_economics_final_klamath_basin_agriculture_economic_analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Economic Analysis of Agriculture in the Klamath Basin<\/em><\/a>, Highland Economics for the Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University, June 2023. Values in 2022 dollars.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>Patrons made up the difference or went without.<\/strong> Ground came out of production \u2014 1,022 acres through the District's own Surface Water Abatement Program, with more idled under the Drought Response Agency's programs. Where growers had wells, they pumped. Where they did not, crops were shorted, and some ground was not planted at all.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\" style=\"margin-top:22px\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">3b<\/span><h2>What the idling programs took out of production<\/h2><\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-section\" id=\"dra\">\n        <p>The Klamath Project Drought Response Agency offered voluntary idling programs this year (No Irrigation, Limited Irrigation, and a Five-Year option). <strong>The 2026 application window closed June 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p>KWUA reports that the DRA's 2026 program exceeded its enrollment goal \u2014 the largest in the agency's history \u2014 with more than 50,000 acres enrolled \u2014 an estimate the DRA last updated July 28. The DRA is still reviewing applications, verifying enrollment, and finalizing acreage on its <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/6cf1d1bb420a4296b6f3a82a7f73aa9b\/\">online public map<\/a>, where you can check the parcels conditionally approved for your account (parcels not yet shown may still be pending review). Enrolled patrons will receive response letters directly and can review their submitted acreage once the map is updated. For details, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwua.org\/waterwork\/july-2026-waterworks-newsletter\/\">KWUA July 2026 WaterWorks newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <p>Through June, before either program's acreage was known, K.I.D. held diversions low and ran a wait list that peaked at 57 orders on June 23 \u2014 a hedge against over-committing the supply while demand was unsettled. As SWAP (1,022 acres, closed July 1) and DRA enrollment firmed up, the wait list was worked down. Enrollment concentrated in the one-year options rather than the Five-Year program \u2014 growers intend to keep farming, treating idling as a short-term bridge.<\/p>\n    <p>Program details remain posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klamathwaterbank.com\/\">klamathwaterbank.com<\/a>; for current status, contact the DRA at <strong>(541) 630-0752<\/strong> \u00b7 info@klamathwaterbank.com.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-expl\">\n      <h3>DRA and SWAP program acres \u2014 still being confirmed<\/h3>\n      <ul>\n        <li>Two programs paid patrons to take ground off Project surface water this year. The <b>Drought Response Agency (DRA)<\/b> runs the Project-wide programs; the <b>Surface Water Abatement Program (SWAP)<\/b> is K.I.D.'s own.<\/li>\n        <li>The DRA's 2026 enrollment drew <b>more than 50,000 acres<\/b> across the Project \u2014 the largest in its history \u2014 on an estimate last updated July 28.<\/li>\n        <li><b>SWAP closed July 1 with 1,022 acres<\/b> enrolled in K.I.D.<\/li>\n        <li>The DRA is still reviewing applications and verifying enrollment, so <b>the acres inside each district are not yet confirmed<\/b>. That column stays marked pending until the agency finalizes them.<\/li>\n        <li>Enrolled ground is still <b>contracted<\/b> acreage and stays in the acreage column. Enrollment means the ground came off Project surface water \u2014 some of it kept farming on a grower's own well.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p><strong>The District moved the same water more than once.<\/strong> Through August 15 the recirculation and return-flow pumps re-lifted <strong>18,553 acre-feet<\/strong> back into the system for reuse \u2014 equal to another <strong>0.15 acre-feet per acre<\/strong>, or roughly a fifth again on top of what was diverted from the lake. Every one of those pumps ran at full capacity from June 1 to August 8 to hold the Warren Act contract lands at their 0.75 acre-foot-per-acre allotment without drawing that water away from K.I.D. patrons. A permitted supplemental well added a further <strong>936 acre-feet<\/strong> to offset KBID's demand.<\/p>\n    <p>The District also returned <strong>23,786 acre-feet<\/strong> to Tulelake Irrigation District and the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge through the J Canal and the D spill \u2014 water that served K.I.D. ground first and then went on to serve someone else's.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"note\">Delivery, recirculation and return-flow figures are from K.I.D.'s daily tracking file. Recirculation is reported through August 15, the last date those pumps were logged. The 2.24 acre-feet per acre figure is K.I.D.'s historical average diversion duty from Reclamation's records for 1928\u20131946; it is a planning reference, not a limit on the 3.5 acre-feet per acre the contract provides.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-band\">Why there was not enough water<\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\" id=\"why\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">06<\/span><h2>Why there isn't enough water<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p>Reclamation forecast the 2026 Project water supply from Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River at 221,000 acre-feet \u2014 well below the Project's full irrigation demand. That shortfall is why deliveries are managed the way they are this year.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>What the basin produced this water year.<\/strong> The shortage begins in the mountains. Peak snowpack reached only <strong>4% of median<\/strong>, water-year precipitation <strong>78% of median<\/strong>, and the water that actually arrived in Upper Klamath Lake \u2014 <strong>805,415 acre-feet<\/strong> of net inflow for the full water year \u2014 came in at <strong>about three-quarters of the 65-year mean<\/strong>. Two independent measures of the watershed, the same answer. <strong>Rain on the valley floor was not the problem.<\/strong> Reclamation's AgriMet stations finished the water year <em>above<\/em> their long-term medians \u2014 Lorella 140%, Beatty 123%, Klamath Falls 115%, Agency 112% \u2014 and the Klamath Falls airport gage recorded 10.25 inches against an 11.27-inch average. Valley rain is not what fills the lake; mountain snow and runoff are, and the snow did not come.<\/p>\n    <p>The state recognized the same conditions. On <strong>May 12, 2026, Governor Kotek declared a drought emergency in Klamath County<\/strong> (Executive Order 26-08), citing basin snow water equivalent at 4% of normal.<\/p><p><strong>The Klamath River Basin went from almost no drought to half the basin in drought in a single water year.<\/strong> The U.S. Drought Monitor tracks the basin as its own unit. On September 30, 2025 \u2014 the first day of this water year \u2014 <strong>54% of the basin was drought-free and only 0.32% was in drought at all<\/strong>. As of <strong>August 18, 2026<\/strong>: <strong>no part of the basin is drought-free<\/strong>, <strong>50.5% is in drought (D1\u2013D4)<\/strong>, and <strong>15% is in severe or extreme drought (D2\u2013D3)<\/strong> \u2014 extreme drought having more than doubled in the past week alone. Klamath County as a whole is <strong>88.4% in drought<\/strong>, affecting 58,657 people, with its <strong>16th-driest January through July in 132 years<\/strong>, about 5.17 inches below normal.<\/p><p class=\"note\">Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?OR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Drought Monitor, Klamath River Basin<\/a> (released August 20, valid August 18) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/states\/oregon\/county\/klamath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIDIS Klamath County conditions<\/a>. NOAA's seasonal outlook has drought <strong>persisting<\/strong> through November.<\/p><p><strong>Where that water went.<\/strong> These are water-year figures from K.I.D.'s daily tracking file and the federal gages, current to September 16. The water year runs October 1 to September 30 \u2014 a different clock than the irrigation season.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"wsu-tiles\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">4%<small> of median<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Peak snowpack in the Klamath Basin this water year (NRCS)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">50.5%<small> of basin<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Klamath River Basin in drought (D1\u2013D4) as of Aug 18 \u2014 0.3% a year ago (U.S. Drought Monitor)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">16th<small> driest<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Driest January\u2013July on record for Klamath County, in 132 years of record (NIDIS)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">78%<small> of median<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Water-year precipitation in the basin (NRCS)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">805,415<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake \u2014 the full water year, now closed<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">573,848<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Peak water stored in Upper Klamath Lake, reached April 5<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">212,316<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Delivered to Project farms in the 2026 irrigation season \u2014 the water charged against the 221,000 acre-foot supply<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">611,270<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Passed over Keno Dam and down the Klamath River this water year<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">47,430<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Project return flows sent downriver to help meet Keno flow targets \u2014 Deferred Project Supply<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p><strong>Read those together.<\/strong> Of the water that reached Upper Klamath Lake across the full water year, <strong>about 76% passed over Keno Dam and went down the Klamath River<\/strong>. Project diversions over the same twelve months came to about <strong>238,000 acre-feet<\/strong> \u2014 the 198,673 charged against the irrigation season inside the water year, plus roughly 35,000 diverted outside it on fall and winter water rights. That is <strong>about 30% of the year's inflow<\/strong>, and it means <strong>more than two and a half acre-feet went down the river for every one diverted by the Project<\/strong> \u2014 611,270 against about 238,000. And 47,430 acre-feet of what went down the river was <strong>Project return flow<\/strong>: water the districts moved and sent back to help meet the Keno flow targets.<\/p><p class=\"note\">Net inflow and storage are Reclamation's measured record; Keno outflow is U.S. Geological Survey gage 11509500. Deferred Project Supply is Reclamation's accounting of Lost River Diversion Channel and F\/FF pumping returns; the 47,430 acre-foot split between the two is as of August 13, and the balance remaining stood at 5,537 acre-feet on September 30. The District's <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/water\/current\/water-dashboard\/\"><strong>Water Dashboard<\/strong><\/a> carries these figures live, with the full daily record and the long-term context behind them.<\/p>\n    <p>The Klamath Reclamation Project is operated by several irrigation and drainage districts, and each district distributes and manages its own share of Project water under its own authorities. K.I.D. cannot control every basin-wide program or every diversion in the Project. What K.I.D. can do is manage its own operations, reduce avoidable demand, account for every drop put to beneficial use, and enforce its <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-09_WATER-DELIVERY-POLICY_Updated.pdf\">Water Delivery Policy<\/a> against waste.<\/p>\n    <p>Operating within the supply figure Reclamation announced is not an endorsement of it. K.I.D. is operating within the constraints placed on the 2026 supply while continuing to press \u2014 through its contract and the proper channels \u2014 for the water its patrons are owed. The contract basis is in <a href=\"#rules\"><strong>the rules<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">07<\/span><h2>What K.I.D. is doing to stretch every drop<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p>Beyond managing wait lists, K.I.D. used every Board-authorized tool to reduce demand and prevent waste. The District\u2019s standing rules are in <a href=\"#rules\"><strong>the rules<\/strong><\/a>; these were the 2026-specific measures:<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Self-regulated the daily diversion from Upper Klamath Lake, holding the A Canal headworks and Miller Hill to a K.I.D.-specific average rate, coordinated with the other diversion districts.<\/li>\n      <li>Lowered the A Canal operating level by about 6 inches where feasible, cutting seepage through the canal banks.<\/li>\n      <li>K.I.D. evaluated whether future inter-account transfers should be ineligible for DRA validation.<\/li>\n      <li>Ran every recirculation pump upgraded by K.B.I.D., which invested nearly $1 million; those pumps target 0.75 AF\/acre.<\/li>\n      <li>Applied periodic return-flow adjustments to Diversion Works volumes through the season.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>In short, three things at once: cut the demand K.I.D. must divert, get more value from every acre-foot, and eliminate waste.<\/p>\n    <h3>Surface Water Abatement Program (SWAP) \u2014 1,022 acres idled (enrollment closed July 1)<\/h3>\n    <p>SWAP is K.I.D.\u2019s own idling program. It paid patrons who could take enrolled acres completely off K.I.D. surface water for the rest of 2026 using an alternate source they control \u2014 freeing up wet water, not paper water, so the District could keep irrigating later into the season.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wsu-section\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">08<\/span><h2>Our shared path forward<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p>Regardless of how the year unfolded, the districts worked together through 2026 toward a single shared vision \u2014 and it held:<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li><strong>Keep water moving as long as we can.<\/strong> The District made every effort, and used every available resource, to keep deliveries going for as long as the supply lasted. With September rains, demand fell faster than the supply did, and deliveries carried past September \u2014 K.I.D. reached <strong>October 15<\/strong>, the goal its Board set in April, with the available supply committed in full.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Stay within the announced supply.<\/strong> The Project has operated within the 221,000 acre-feet Reclamation made available for 2026, and is projected to deliver it in full by the close of the season on November 30.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Use every tool we have.<\/strong> With the idling enrollment windows closed by July, how far the supply carried turned on disciplined daily diversion management and the acres idled.<\/li>\n      <li><strong>We stretched every drop.<\/strong> The math did not work on paper. But the District used every resource it had to squeeze that math toward a better result for the Project \u2014 and that work showed in the numbers.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n<span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part5\">Part 5 \u00b7 Refuge conditions<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 5 \u00b7 Refuge conditions<\/span><span class=\"rs\">The avian botulism outbreak at Tule Lake, how water through the districts turned it around, and the largest waterbird hatch in a decade.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open this section<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-section\" id=\"refuge\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">04<\/span><h2>Refuge conditions \u2014 botulism and waterfowl mortality<\/h2><\/div>\n    <p>Two things hit the refuges at once this summer. An outbreak of <strong>avian botulism<\/strong> at Tule Lake got much worse in the heat. At the same time, <strong>Lower Klamath and Tule Lake<\/strong> had their biggest waterbird hatch in more than ten years. Water was the tool for both \u2014 it dilutes the disease, and it keeps young birds alive until they can fly. <strong>The water that moved through the districts in August did both jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <div class=\"wsu-hist\">\n      <span class=\"ht\">The scale, measured against 2024<\/span>\n      <p><strong>More than 100,000 waterfowl died of botulism on the Klamath Basin refuges in 2024.<\/strong> In 2026 the Klamath Water Users Association put refuge losses at <strong>about 10,000 birds by early August<\/strong>. The toll kept climbing into September \u2014 the figures below follow it \u2014 but it never approached 2024.<\/p>\n      <p>That happened in a year with a <strong>221,000 acre-foot supply<\/strong> and more than <strong>50,000 Project acres idled<\/strong>. KWUA credits the difference to an effort worked out across the spring and summer to get water to the refuges while it could still do something, involving KWUA and its member districts, Reclamation, federal fisheries services, tribal governments, Ducks Unlimited, the California Waterfowl Association and the counties.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"note\"><strong>K.I.D. is a KWUA member district<\/strong>, and part of the water involved moved through this District. Sources: Klamath Water Users Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/kwua.org\/collaboration-delivers-critical-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Collaboration Delivers Critical Water to Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges<\/em><\/a>, August 19, 2026, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kwua.org\/moving-water-in-the-klamath-basin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Moving Water in the Klamath Basin<\/em><\/a>, October 13, 2026.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>Avian influenza \u2014 suspect H5N1 in the basin<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"wsu-status\" style=\"border-left-color:#8e1a29\">\n      <span class=\"lab maroon\">Suspect \u2014 not yet confirmed<\/span>\n      <p><strong>Bird flu is suspected in the Klamath Basin \u2014 the H5N1 strain.<\/strong> Every early positive came from a site <strong>around Upper Klamath Lake<\/strong>. Only U.S.D.A. labs can confirm it. Until they do, the status stays <strong>\u201csuspect\u201d<\/strong>, which is not the same as confirmed. Reported at Reclamation\u2019s operations meeting on October 1.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>What it changes on the ground.<\/strong> Bird mortality is holding steady at roughly <strong>20 to 30 birds per day per wetland<\/strong>, but the cause is no longer clean to read: field conditions suggest <strong>both botulism and avian influenza may be contributing<\/strong>, and sampling has been reduced for staff safety. Crews working in or around the water are using protective equipment, and water-quality sampling that depends on laboratories without certified biocontrol remains halted. Bird numbers are still climbing as fall migration builds, and additional lands are being brought into flood as water supply allows \u2014 spreading birds out to reduce density is one of the few tools available against both diseases at once.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Where it stood at the close \u2014 reported October 8.<\/strong> Warm temperatures bumped mortality up slightly in <strong>Unit 1B<\/strong>, but the reading is now confounded: with avian influenza active in the basin, a dead bird can no longer be assigned to botulism on sight. <strong>Carcass removal has stopped for the duration of the hunt season<\/strong>, so the daily counts that carried the summer\u2019s reporting are no longer being collected the same way \u2014 a change in the counting, not necessarily in the dying. <strong>Water-quality and carcass testing are paused<\/strong> pending a final approved shipping plan. <strong>U.S.D.A. A.P.H.I.S. is sampling for influenza trend<\/strong>, and the refuge is receiving swab kits to track the migration period. Bird numbers continue to increase daily across the refuge, and water deliveries are underway to Lower Klamath cooperative lands for pre-irrigation and in preparation for possible flow-through tests.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>The botulism outlook is the one piece of good news.<\/strong> The bacterium behind avian botulism needs warm water to produce toxin, so the outbreak ends with the cold rather than with anything the basin does. Reporting at Reclamation\u2019s <strong>October 8<\/strong> operations meeting put it plainly: any active germination <strong>should end with the cold temperatures arriving over the following week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>That cold arrived on schedule.<\/strong> The National Weather Service forecast for the basin, issued <strong>October 10<\/strong>, put overnight lows at <strong>29\u00b0F<\/strong> on the 10th, <strong>28\u00b0F<\/strong> on the 11th and <strong>30\u00b0F<\/strong> on the 12th \u2014 the first sustained run of sub-freezing nights of the fall, and the condition wildlife managers had been waiting on since August. Tule Lake sump elevations at that point: <strong>Sump 1A at 4,034.64 feet<\/strong>, <strong>Sump 1B at 4,035.11 feet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"note\">A freeze ends toxin production; it does not clear toxin already in the water or in carcasses, and mortality can trail the first cold nights. Forecast figures are the National Weather Service point forecast for the Klamath Basin issued October 10, 2026.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Hunter precautions were issued, and they are not reproduced here.<\/strong> Waterfowl season opened with the detection unresolved, and the District pointed patrons and hunters to the standard precautions for any H.P.A.I. year. <strong>Current guidance belongs with the agencies that issue it<\/strong> \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/myodfw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife<\/a> \u2014 and with the current water-supply update, not with a page kept as a record.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"note\">Public-health guidance in previous outbreaks has put the risk to the general public as low, with the higher risk falling on people in direct, unprotected contact with infected birds. This page will carry a confirmation or an all-clear when USDA completes its testing; until then, treat the detection as unconfirmed.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>Tule Lake Refuge \u2014 botulism outbreak, responding to water<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"wsu-status\" style=\"border-left-color:#2e6b46\">\n      <span class=\"lab\" style=\"color:#2e6b46\">Improving \u2014 while the water lasts<\/span>\n      <p>Warm, stagnant water and low levels in Sump 1A drove a rapid rise in avian botulism at Tule Lake through the summer, and an estimated 10,800 birds were dead by late August, and reporting in early September put the toll at <strong>13,730 birds<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/stocktonia.org\/news\/agriculture\/2026\/09\/01\/salmon-klamath-challenging-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stocktonia<\/a>, September 1, 2026). <strong>The water moved through the districts to the sumps turned the outbreak around.<\/strong> Botulism is now <strong>confirmed by USGS laboratory results<\/strong>, and mortality has eased to roughly <strong>10\u201320 birds a day<\/strong> and is likely past the 2026 peak, with <strong>about 16,522 birds lost<\/strong> to date \u2014 far below the peak, and no longer climbing. Because the carcass load was lighter this year the toxin was less concentrated, and managers expected <strong>a hard freeze to end the outbreak<\/strong> \u2014 which is what arrived in the second week of October.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Those deliveries from Upper Klamath Lake ended August 24<\/strong>, when the lake reached the elevation at which regulation resumed. <strong>Return flows from District operations are still reaching the refuges<\/strong>, and that water continues to do the work \u2014 <strong>because that is how the system is designed to operate.<\/strong> Water delivered to Project farms drains back through the canals and drains and on to the refuges. The refuges have always been served at the tail of an operating irrigation system, not by a separate supply. Wildlife managers did not expect the outbreak to resolve fully until the first hard frost, and sustained water movement through the refuge wetlands remained the tool that worked.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p>Water remains the primary tool for both botulism management and wildlife survival, and this summer demonstrated it: moving water through the wetlands raised sump levels and cut daily mortality within days. <strong>A flow-through arrangement is a concept, not a finished plan.<\/strong> K.I.D. proposed such an approach <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1xALWwGF_D7JrXMpnJA36zOCFmBBhqsAL\/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101854137040827774876&rtpof=true&sd=true\">in 2023<\/a>, as the Section 7(a)(3) Applicant for the 2024 Proposed Action, and it was not adopted by the agencies. It would need engineering, accounting, and agreement among the districts, Reclamation and the wildlife agencies before it could be operated \u2014 work that has not been done. In the meantime the refuges depend on what the irrigation system returns to them.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges \u2014 the largest hatch in a decade<\/h3>\n    <p>Both refuges hosted the largest waterbird hatch our basin has witnessed in over ten years, and thousands of young birds were on the water when the sumps were at their lowest. <strong>Unit 2 reached its required elevation in time.<\/strong> Refuge crews banded <strong>more than 3,000 juvenile and flightless adult birds over two nights<\/strong> \u2014 birds that would very likely have been lost without water under them. At Lower Klamath, <strong>Unit 3 went nearly dry<\/strong> earlier in the season and habitat there was lost; return flows are now being moved to Unit 3 through the D plant to raise its elevation ahead of winter. The immediate priority on the refuge is securing and keeping enough water on the ground to sustain these nesting areas and ensure this historic generation of birds can successfully fledge.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"wsu-tiles\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile alert\"><div class=\"v\">13,730<small> birds<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Reported dead this year at Tule Lake from botulism (Stocktonia, Sept 1; about 10,800 estimated in late August)<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile alert\"><div class=\"v\">Unit 3<small> nearly dry<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Lower Klamath \u2014 young-duck habitat lost<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">12<small> cfs<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Incoming to the Refuge via the Thomas Water Transfer<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile alert\"><div class=\"v\">~30<small> AF\/day<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Estimated evapotranspiration loss on Unit 2 alone<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p><strong>Fall migration has begun<\/strong>, and early migrants are arriving and feeding in Klamath Drainage District and on leased fields. <strong>Unit 3 is being topped off<\/strong> with deep-plant water from Tulelake Irrigation District, and <strong>Unit 2 is holding steady<\/strong>. Sump 1A and 1B elevations have leveled off, with deep-plant pumping continuing.<\/p><p><strong>Lower Klamath is open for waterfowl hunting<\/strong> \u2014 made possible by the water held in Unit 2 \u2014 and the California youth waterfowl season this weekend is bringing significant recreation to the basin. <strong>Return flows from District operations continue to move to Unit 3 through the D plant<\/strong> to raise its elevation ahead of winter \u2014 again, ordinary operation of the system rather than a special delivery. Unit 2 levels are declining again, because evapotranspiration is drawing more off the unit than the water now reaching it.<\/p>\n    <p>The deficit is the whole story: the Thomas Transfer's 12 cfs delivers roughly 24 acre-feet a day, while evapotranspiration is estimated to take about 30 acre-feet a day off Unit 2 alone. The transfer is a helpful tool, but at that rate it does little more than hold a single unit even \u2014 it leaves nothing to raise water levels, nothing for Unit 3, and nothing for the rest of the refuge. <span style=\"color:#7d8493\">The 30 acre-feet per day figure is a conservative estimate; actual losses across the refuge are likely higher, which widens the gap further.<\/span> That gap is the urgent case for more robust water solutions on the refuges. K.I.D. continues to work with its partners toward solutions that maintain a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>What worked in 2025 \u2014 and why it matters now<\/h3>\n    <p>Last season showed what proactive water management can do. After the 2024 botulism outbreak, refuge staff used new elevation data to identify which wetland areas were most at risk at which water depths, and alerted Tulelake Irrigation District and Reclamation early. Operations were adjusted, and daily mortality at Tule Lake fell from 100\u2013200 birds a day to one or two. It is the same principle K.I.D. has pressed for here: move water through the wetlands before the disease takes hold, rather than after. Ducks Unlimited documented that effort in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducks.org\/newsroom\/engineering-a-comeback-how-ducks-unlimited-science-and-collaboration-offer-hope-for-klamath-basin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engineering a Comeback: How Science and Collaboration Offer Hope for Klamath Basin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <figure style=\"margin:18px 0 0;padding:0\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ducks.org\/files\/live\/sites\/ducksorg\/files\/Comms%20Articles\/WRO\/Klamath%20banding%20(36%20of%2057).teaser.jpg\"\n           alt=\"Refuge staff banding waterfowl at the Klamath Basin refuges during the 2025 season.\"\n           loading=\"lazy\"\n           style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;border-radius:6px;border:1px solid #e2dccd\" \/>\n      <figcaption class=\"wsu-cap\">Refuge staff banding waterfowl on the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuges during the 2025 season, after new data and collaborative water management helped mitigate a botulism outbreak. <span style=\"color:#7d8493\">Photo: Ducks Unlimited.<\/span><\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n  <\/div>\n\n    \n\n  <div class=\"wsu-disc\">This notice reflects information as understood by the Klamath Irrigation District; water-supply figures are built from Reclamation's daily gage record as of <span data-kid=\"asof\">October 15, 2026<\/span>, with the October 15 A Canal reading taken from K.I.D.'s own SCADA flow meter and Station 48 from Tulelake Irrigation District's record, and are subject to change as conditions, forecasts, and program terms are updated. It does not modify any contract, water right, or legal obligation.\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part6\">Part 6 \u00b7 River conditions<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 6 \u00b7 River conditions<\/span><span class=\"rs\">Disease at both ends of the year \u2014 <em>C. shasta<\/em> in juvenile salmon this spring, Ich in the returning adults in August \u2014 and what the cyanotoxin sampling found.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rbtn\">Open this section<\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-section\" id=\"fish\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\">\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-num\">05<\/span><h2>Fish disease downstream of Keno<\/h2><\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-status\" style=\"border-left-color:#2e6b46\">\n      <span class=\"lab\" style=\"color:#2e6b46\">Fall 2026 \u2014 Chinook reached the Project reach for the first time since the dams came out<\/span>\n      <p><strong>Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recorded Chinook salmon ascending the fish ladders at both Keno Dam and Link River Dam beginning September 22<\/strong>, with one Chinook counted on the Spencer Creek video system. These are the first fall-run adults observed at the ladders since the lower Klamath dams were removed.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>ODFW is explicit that this is not a run-size estimate.<\/strong> The ladder counts are daylight video observations and do not measure how many fish are above the dams. The Klamath River spawning-ground survey recorded <strong>no redds<\/strong> so far, and no coho.<\/p>\n      <p>Downstream, California Department of Fish and Wildlife counted <strong>2,020 adult Chinook at the Shasta River<\/strong> facility through September 24, along with 13 adult steelhead and no coho \u2014 running ahead of the 2001\u20132025 median for the date, with most of the run still ahead. Bogus Creek, Scott River and Shovel Creek had recorded no Chinook, coho or steelhead as of that date; the Scott River station went in September 18. Counts are preliminary.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"wsu-status\" style=\"border-left-color:#b5541f\">\n      <span class=\"lab rust\">Disease at both ends of the year \u2014 driven by heat and low flow<\/span>\n      <p>The river carried two separate disease events in 2026. In the spring, <em>Ceratonova shasta<\/em> infection in juvenile salmon reached <strong>90\u2013100%<\/strong> of weekly samples by late April \u2014 though about <strong>80% of the wild run had already gone<\/strong> before the first detection, and the early-June die-off fell almost entirely on <strong>hatchery fish<\/strong>. In late August, with the Klamath-near-Klamath gage at <strong>23.2\u00b0C<\/strong> and flows near <strong>2,220 cfs<\/strong>, <strong>every returning adult sampled was infected with Ich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>Coho salmon \u2014 the listed species the spring flow rules exist to protect \u2014 were essentially absent from the mainstem traps all season.<\/strong> And cyanotoxins were <strong>not detected<\/strong> anywhere in the seven lower-river samples taken on August 19. What harmed these fish was warm water and low flow, not toxins.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>Two different diseases hit two different life stages of Klamath salmon in 2026 \u2014 juveniles in the spring, returning adults in late summer. Both track the same variable: <strong>water temperature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Spring \u2014 <em>Ceratonova shasta<\/em> in the juveniles<\/h3>\n    <p><em>C. shasta<\/em> is a parasite that lives in the main river. It gets worse as the water warms. It first showed up on <strong>April 2<\/strong>, and by late April <strong>90 to 100%<\/strong> of weekly samples carried it. By then most wild fish were already gone: of about <strong>580,000 young wild Chinook<\/strong> counted this season, an estimated <strong>80% had left before that first detection<\/strong>, while the water was still cold.<\/p>\n    <p>The early-June die-off that drew coverage fell almost entirely on <strong>hatchery fish<\/strong> \u2014 part of the <strong>675,000 smolts<\/strong> released May 14 from the Fall Creek Hatchery, about 200 river miles from the sea. Roughly <strong>2,170 of 3,500<\/strong> juveniles caught at the Iron Gate and I-5 traps June 2\u20135 were dead or dying, nearly all of them hatchery-origin. Spore densities in the upper corridor were already above the <strong>10 spores per liter<\/strong> the monitoring program ties to a 40% juvenile mortality threshold when those fish went in.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>Coho salmon \u2014 the listed species the spring flow rules exist to protect \u2014 were essentially absent from the mainstem traps all season.<\/strong> They are a cool-tributary fish, not a warm summer mainstem fish. <strong>Spore levels dropped off at every index site by early August.<\/strong> K.I.D. has set out the full monitoring record, the temperature data and the sources behind this on its <a href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/2026\/06\/05\/2026-c-shasta-and-klamath-water-temps\/\"><strong>2026 C. shasta and Klamath water temperatures<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>How the year finished on the parasite.<\/strong> Sampling continued through the fall at five mainstem index sites \u2014 near the Shasta River, near Beaver Creek, Seiad Valley, Tully Creek and Orleans. Across the five weeks from <strong>August 31 to September 28<\/strong>, <em>C. shasta<\/em> was detected at <strong>every site, every week<\/strong> \u2014 it is a natural resident of the river, and its absence was never the expectation. What matters is the level: <strong>no site exceeded 5 spores per liter at any point in those five weeks<\/strong>, against the <strong>10 spores per liter<\/strong> the program ties to a 40% juvenile mortality threshold. The upper two sites ran higher than the lower three, as they do. Turbidity rose at the end of August behind the higher Boat Dance flows, and again at the end of September with the first seasonal rain.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Late summer \u2014 Ich in the returning adults<\/h3>\n    <p>Adult salmon coming back from the ocean piled up in the lower Klamath through August, and the conditions turned against them. Reclamation measured the water at <strong>23.2\u00b0C \u2014 about 74\u00b0F<\/strong> \u2014 with flows near <strong>2,220 cfs<\/strong>. <strong>Every fish sampled had Ich<\/strong>, mild in most and severe in some, with signs of columnaris too. Ich is the parasite behind the 2002 fish kill. It spreads when crowded fish sit in warm, low water.<\/p>\n    <p>On <strong>August 27<\/strong> Reclamation approved a <strong>Flow Augmentation Release<\/strong> under the Long Term Plan. Flows below <strong>Lewiston Dam on the Trinity River<\/strong> rose from about 450 cfs to as much as <strong>1,200 cfs<\/strong> from August 28 through September 21, using approximately <strong>35,000 acre-feet<\/strong> from Trinity Reservoir \u2014 a reservoir sitting at <strong>109% of its historical average<\/strong> for the date.<\/p>\n    <p>Reclamation stated that this release does not affect water supply to agriculture, communities, or other environmental obligations. That statement applies to the Trinity release. It does not describe the Klamath side of the system: <strong>flows past Keno Dam are supplied from Upper Klamath Lake<\/strong>, including released stored water, from the same lake that supplies the Project.<\/p>\n    <p>The scale is worth noting. The <strong>35,000 acre-feet<\/strong> released from Trinity for fish health is <strong>four times<\/strong> the <strong>8,684 acre-feet<\/strong> remaining for every farm in the entire Klamath Project \u2014 and Trinity sits at 109% of average while the Project was held to about 44% of its full contract entitlement.<\/p>\n    <h3>The fall run came in \u2014 and the quota filled<\/h3>\n    <p>Against the disease picture, the fishery itself did well. <strong>Anglers met the Lower Klamath adult fall-run Chinook quota below the Highway 96 Bridge at Weitchpec on September 13<\/strong>, which under California's rules closes the adult Chinook fishery from that bridge to the mouth. The mouth itself closed September 2 and stays closed for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n    <p>Below Highway 96 the river remains open for <strong>jack Chinook<\/strong> \u2014 two-year-olds of 23 inches or less \u2014 with all adults released. Adult fishing continues above Weitchpec and on the whole Trinity River. Quota status is on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife hotline, (800) 564-6479.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>A quota filled is a run that arrived.<\/strong> It does not undo what the warm water did to the fish holding below Weitchpec in August, but it is worth recording alongside it: the 2026 fall run supported its full recreational allocation on the lower river.<\/p>\n    <h3>Where the fall run went \u2014 the tributary counts<\/h3>\n    <p>The quota tells you the run arrived. The weirs tell you where it went. California Department of Fish and Wildlife counts through <strong>October 15<\/strong>:<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <tr><th>Weir<\/th><th>Adult Chinook<\/th><th>Operating since \u00b7 location<\/th><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td>Shasta River<\/td><td class=\"n\">3,541<\/td><td>August 31 \u00b7 about 600 feet above the Klamath confluence. Also <strong>29 adult <em>O. mykiss<\/em><\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Scott River<\/td><td class=\"n\">40<\/td><td>September 18 \u00b7 18 miles above the confluence<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Shovel Creek<\/td><td class=\"n\">30<\/td><td>September 14 \u00b7 about 100 feet above the confluence \u2014 <strong>above the former dam sites<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Bogus Creek<\/td><td class=\"n\">11<\/td><td>September 3 \u00b7 a quarter mile above the confluence<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Jenny Creek<\/td><td class=\"n\">10<\/td><td>September 30 \u00b7 about 200 feet above the confluence \u2014 <strong>above the former dam sites<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n    <p><strong>Zero coho were counted at any of the five weirs.<\/strong> Coho are the listed species the spring flow rules exist to protect, and they were absent from the mainstem juvenile traps all season as well \u2014 they are a cool-tributary fish, and the mainstem is not where they are found.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>The small tributaries filled in late.<\/strong> Between October 8 and October 15 the Shasta added 40 fish, but <strong>Scott River went from 10 to 40, Shovel Creek from 12 to 30, Bogus Creek from 4 to 11 and Jenny Creek from 1 to 10<\/strong>. Two of those weirs are new ground: Shovel Creek and Jenny Creek sit above the former dam sites and are counted now because the dams are gone. <em>Counts are preliminary and do not include spawning observed downstream of the stations; final escapement follows once the data is complete. Figures from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in-season update of October 16, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n    <h3>Cyanotoxins \u2014 low in the river, high in the sump<\/h3>\n    <p>Blue-green algae toxins are often raised alongside fish health on the Klamath, so it is worth recording what the monitoring actually showed through August. Tribal programs sampled the lower river and the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 8 Laboratory ran the analyses.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-crop\"><colgroup><col style=\"width:34%\"><col style=\"width:18%\"><col style=\"width:14%\"><col style=\"width:34%\"><\/colgroup>\n      <thead><tr><th>Where<\/th><th class=\"r\">Sampled<\/th><th class=\"r\">Sites<\/th><th class=\"r\">Total microcystin<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr><td>Lower Klamath \u2014 Yurok reach<\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 4\u20135<\/td><td class=\"n\">7<\/td><td class=\"val\">all below 0.15 \u00b5g\/L<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Lower Klamath \u2014 Yurok reach<\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 19<\/td><td class=\"n\">7<\/td><td class=\"val\">all below 0.15 \u00b5g\/L<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Mid Klamath \u2014 Karuk sites<\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 19<\/td><td class=\"n\">4<\/td><td class=\"val\">0.56, 0.64, 0.68; one below 0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Trinity and Klamath \u2014 Hoopa<\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 26<\/td><td class=\"n\">2<\/td><td class=\"val\">0.22; one below 0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Lower Klamath \u2014 Pulikla sites<\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 26<\/td><td class=\"n\">5<\/td><td class=\"val\">1.36 at one site; four below 0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Lower Klamath \u2014 Yurok reach<\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 1\u20132<\/td><td class=\"n\">7<\/td><td class=\"val\">0.73 highest of ten samples; three below 0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Trinity and Klamath \u2014 Hoopa<\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 9<\/td><td class=\"n\">2<\/td><td class=\"val\">0.26; one below 0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Gerber Reservoir<\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 1<\/td><td class=\"n\">1<\/td><td class=\"val\">none detected, all four toxins<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Gerber Reservoir<span class=\"cs\">final sample of 2026<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 22<\/td><td class=\"n\">1<\/td><td class=\"val\">none detected, all four toxins<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr class=\"hi\"><td><strong>Tule Lake Sump 1A<\/strong><span class=\"cs\">refuge; advisory in place since May<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">Aug 5<\/td><td class=\"n\">1<\/td><td class=\"g maroon\"><strong>8.84 \u00b5g\/L \u2014 WARNING<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody><\/table>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>The river ran low. The sump ran high.<\/strong> Across twenty-five river samples in August, most were below the reporting limit and the highest was <strong>1.36 micrograms per litre<\/strong>. Twelve more samples in September came in lower still \u2014 the highest was <strong>0.73<\/strong>, and every one was below the <strong>0.8 microgram-per-litre<\/strong> level California uses to post even a Caution advisory. At the same time <strong>Tule Lake Sump 1A measured 8.84<\/strong>, carrying a California <strong>WARNING<\/strong> advisory that has been posted since May.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>That contrast is the lesson, and it is the same one the botulism taught.<\/strong> The toxin problem was not in the moving water; it was in the warm, shallow, stagnant sump \u2014 the same conditions, in the same place, that produced the botulism outbreak. <strong>Water that moves does not grow these problems. Water that sits does.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\">For the fish themselves, the finding stands: the harm to salmon holding in the lower river came from warm water, low flow and the parasites that thrive in those conditions, not from cyanotoxins in the river.<\/p>\n    <h3>A second kind of algae \u2014 and it is not in the Project<\/h3>\n    <p>The microcystin figures above come from <strong>water-column grab samples<\/strong>, which pick up toxins from planktonic blooms drifting down from upstream lakes and reservoirs. A separate program run by the <strong>California Water Boards with the Klamath Tribal Water Quality Consortium<\/strong> monitors something different: <strong>benthic cyanobacteria<\/strong> \u2014 mats that grow attached to the streambed, whose toxin of concern is <strong>anatoxin-a<\/strong> rather than microcystin, and which concentrate in the mat material rather than in the water.<\/p>\n    <p>In September that program recommended yellow-bannered <strong>\u201cToxic Algae Alert\u201d<\/strong> signage at three locations. The passive-sampler results were all <strong>well under the 100 nanogram-per-gram threshold<\/strong>; it was the <strong>estimated percent coverage<\/strong> of the mats that triggered the recommendation.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Where<\/th><th class=\"r\">Sampled<\/th><th class=\"r\">Mat cover<\/th><th class=\"r\">Anatoxin-a (SPATT)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr><td>Trinity River at Tish Tang<span class=\"cs\">southern boundary<\/span><\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 9<\/td><td class=\"n\">15%<\/td><td class=\"val\">3.45 ng\/g<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Scott River at Indian Scotty<\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 16<\/td><td class=\"n\">\u2014<\/td><td class=\"val\">2.03 ng\/g<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Kidder Creek above Adventure Camp<\/td><td class=\"n\">Sep 16<\/td><td class=\"n\">\u2014<\/td><td class=\"val\">1.74 ng\/g<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody><\/table>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\"><strong>All three are tributaries \u2014 the Trinity, the Scott, and a Scott tributary.<\/strong> None is on the Klamath mainstem, and none is in the Klamath Project or in the reach the Project delivers to. The Quartz Valley Indian Reservation separately posted a Toxic Algae Alert on Kidder Creek based on its own grab samples. The Yurok Tribe holds posting authority on its own lands and its postings are not included here.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"cropnote\" style=\"color:#6b7280;font-size:13.5px\">A posting can be lifted when visual surveys or mat samples show no toxigenic mats or toxins across two consecutive sampling events, or when cooling weather and flushing rain break the mats up and conditions stop new growth.<\/p>\n\n    <p class=\"note\">Cyanotoxin results: U.S. EPA Region 8 Laboratory for the R9 Tribal HAB 2026 program (Yurok, Karuk, Hoopa Valley and Pulikla monitoring), and refuge and Gerber sampling reported to the Klamath blue-green algae listserv. Benthic cyanobacteria monitoring and posting recommendations: California North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board with the Klamath Tribal Water Quality Consortium. Other sources: Reclamation news release and Lower Klamath River Flow Augmentation Release technical recommendation, August 27, 2026; Oregon State University water-column spore monitoring; USFWS Arcata outmigrant monitoring; Karuk Tribe temperature record, used with permission. Figures are provisional.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <span class=\"wsu-partlab\" id=\"part7\">Part 7 \u00b7 Stored water released to the river<\/span>\n<details class=\"wsu-record\">\n    <summary><span><span class=\"rt\">Part 7 \u00b7 Stored water released to the river<\/span><span class=\"rs\">Between May and September the river carried away 121,235 acre-feet more than the lake took in. That water came out of storage.<\/span><\/span><\/summary>\n    <div class=\"rbody\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-section\" id=\"stored-water\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-shead\"><span class=\"wsu-num\">06<\/span><h2>Stored water released to the Klamath River<\/h2><\/div>\n\n    <p class=\"wsu-lede\">Across the 2026 irrigation season, <strong>121,235 acre-feet<\/strong> left the Project at Keno Dam beyond what the watershed delivered into Upper Klamath Lake. That water did not come from runoff. It came out of water already in storage.<\/p>\n\n    <p>From <strong>May 1 through September 30<\/strong> \u2014 153 days \u2014 net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake totaled <strong>130,083 acre-feet<\/strong>. Measured releases over Keno Dam totaled <strong>251,318 acre-feet<\/strong>. The river carried away <strong>121,235 acre-feet more than the lake received<\/strong>, and on <strong>125 of those 153 days<\/strong> outflow exceeded inflow.<\/p>\n\n    <p>For scale: 121,235 acre-feet is <strong>more than half the entire 221,000 acre-foot supply<\/strong> the Klamath Project was permitted for 2026, and more than K.I.D.'s whole-season deliveries through the A Canal and Miller Hill combined.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-tiles\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile alert\"><div class=\"v\">121,235<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Released at Keno beyond what came in \u2014 May 1 to Sep 30<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">130,083<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake, same period<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">251,318<small> AF<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Released over Keno Dam, same period<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"wsu-tile\"><div class=\"v\">125<small> of 153 days<\/small><\/div><div class=\"k\">Outflow at Keno exceeded inflow to the lake<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-chart\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-charttitle\">Cumulative net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake against cumulative release over Keno Dam \u2014 May 1 to September 30, 2026<\/div>\n<svg viewBox=\"0 0 880 452\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Cumulative net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake against cumulative measured release over Keno Dam, May 1 to September 30, 2026. 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width=\"20\" height=\"10\" fill=\"url(#kidGapHatch)\" stroke=\"#e7cdd2\" stroke-width=\"0.8\"\/>\n<text x=\"582.2\" y=\"400.0\" font-size=\"10.5\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">The difference \u2014 drawn from water already stored<\/text>\n<\/svg>\n      <div class=\"wsu-cap\">Navy = cumulative water released over Keno Dam. Blue = cumulative net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake. <strong>The hatched band between them is the gap<\/strong> \u2014 water that left the Project at Keno without a corresponding inflow. The two lines track together through early May while spring runoff was still arriving, then separate through every week of the irrigation season. September closed some of it back: fall inflow arrived, and for the first month all season the lake took in more than the river carried away. Daily Reclamation values; 1 cfs-day = 1.98347 acre-feet.<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>Month by month, the gap grew as the season ran<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"wsu-chart\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-charttitle\">What came into the lake against what was released at Keno, by month \u2014 May to September 2026<\/div>\n<svg viewBox=\"0 0 880 430\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Monthly net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake against monthly release over Keno Dam, May through September 2026. 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330.0 Z\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\"\/>\n<path d=\"M 760.8 330.0 L 760.8 178.2 Q 760.8 174.2 764.8 174.2 L 804.8 174.2 Q 808.8 174.2 808.8 178.2 L 808.8 330.0 Z\" fill=\"#1b2a4e\"\/>\n<text x=\"759.8\" y=\"352.0\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-size=\"12.5\" fill=\"#4a5165\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">September<\/text>\n<text x=\"734.8\" y=\"147.5\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-size=\"10.5\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\">51,250<\/text>\n<text x=\"784.8\" y=\"167.2\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-size=\"10.5\" fill=\"#1b2a4e\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\" font-weight=\"700\">45,495<\/text>\n<text x=\"759.8\" y=\"116.5\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-size=\"13\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\" font-weight=\"700\">-5,755<\/text>\n<text x=\"759.8\" y=\"128.5\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-size=\"9.5\" fill=\"#2f8fb0\" font-family=\"Libre Franklin, sans-serif\">more in than out<\/text>\n<line x1=\"74.0\" y1=\"330.0\" 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Navy = water released over Keno Dam. The figure in red is the difference \u2014 water released beyond what the watershed delivered \u2014 with the share of that month's outflow it represents.<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p><strong>May is the month that looks normal, and it is the one that explains the rest.<\/strong> Spring runoff was still arriving, the lake nearly kept pace, and only 24% of what left at Keno came out of storage. Then the runoff stopped.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>June, July and August are the case.<\/strong> Inflow collapsed to 15,384 acre-feet, then 7,051, then 6,027 \u2014 while releases held at 51,896, 41,018 and 46,754. In August the lake received <strong>6,027 acre-feet and sent 46,754 down the river<\/strong>: nearly eight acre-feet out for every one in. Across those three months <strong>roughly four of every five acre-feet sent down the Klamath came out of storage rather than out of the watershed<\/strong> \u2014 and those are precisely the months when Project farms were being told there was not enough water, when the wait list ran to 57 orders, and when 1,022 acres sat idle under SWAP.<\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>September is the control.<\/strong> Fall inflow arrived, the lake took in 51,250 acre-feet against 45,495 released, and for the first month all season <strong>the lake took in 5,755 acre-feet more than the river carried away<\/strong>. Storage still fell \u2014 diversions continued \u2014 but the deficit against the river closed. Nothing about the operation changed; the hydrology did. That is what the other four months look like when the watershed is actually producing water \u2014 and it is why the four shortage months total <strong>126,990 acre-feet<\/strong> beyond inflow while the season nets to 121,235.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>The lake is the evidence<\/h3>\n    <p>The inflow-and-outflow comparison is an accounting argument. The lake itself is the physical one. <strong>Upper Klamath Lake lost 331,262 acre-feet between April 30 and September 30<\/strong> \u2014 from 551,100 down to 219,838. That is not a model or an estimate. It is Reclamation's own daily measurement of how much water was in the reservoir.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"wsu-chart\">\n      <div class=\"wsu-charttitle\">Storage in Upper Klamath Lake through the 2026 irrigation season<\/div>\n<svg viewBox=\"0 0 880 400\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Upper Klamath Lake storage from May 1 to September 30, 2026, falling from 551,100 acre-feet to 219,838 acre-feet, a drawdown of 331,262 acre-feet across the irrigation season.\">\n<rect x=\"0\" y=\"0\" width=\"880\" height=\"400\" fill=\"#fffdf8\"\/>\n<line x1=\"74.0\" y1=\"300.0\" x2=\"724.0\" y2=\"300.0\" stroke=\"#e7e0d0\" stroke-width=\"1\"\/>\n<text x=\"66.0\" y=\"304.0\" text-anchor=\"end\" font-size=\"11\" fill=\"#9aa0ad\" font-family=\"IBM Plex Mono, monospace\">0<\/text>\n<line x1=\"74.0\" y1=\"258.0\" x2=\"724.0\" y2=\"258.0\" stroke=\"#e7e0d0\" stroke-width=\"1\"\/>\n<text x=\"66.0\" y=\"262.0\" text-anchor=\"end\" font-size=\"11\" fill=\"#9aa0ad\" 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The lake rose on just <strong>9 of 153 days<\/strong>; the largest run was <strong>late May<\/strong>, the last of the spring runoff, worth 14,276 acre-feet. September flattens the curve but does not reverse it \u2014 storage still fell <strong>19,233 acre-feet<\/strong> that month, because diversions continued even as inflow recovered.<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p>Read the two charts together and the argument closes. The river was running a deficit against inflow in all but one month; the lake was falling the whole time; and the lake is where the deficit was made up. <strong>The water that left at Keno beyond what came in had only one place to come from.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <h3>Where the lake's water went<\/h3>\n    <p>Upper Klamath Lake held <strong>551,100 acre-feet<\/strong> on April 30 and <strong>219,838 acre-feet<\/strong> on September 30 \u2014 a drawdown of <strong>331,262 acre-feet<\/strong> across the irrigation season.<\/p>\n    <table class=\"wsu-cmp\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Where it went<\/th><th class=\"r\">Acre-feet<\/th><th class=\"r\">Share of drawdown<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n      <tr><td>Delivered to Project farms<\/td><td class=\"n\">172,829<\/td><td class=\"n\">52%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Released at Keno beyond what flowed in<\/td><td class=\"n\">121,235<\/td><td class=\"n\">37%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <tr><td>Reach losses and accounting residual<\/td><td class=\"n\">37,198<\/td><td class=\"n\">11%<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n    <p>Put plainly: <strong>for every four acre-feet the Project delivered to a farm this season, nearly three acre-feet of stored water went down the river.<\/strong> Project farms operated under a hard 221,000 acre-foot ceiling, enforced to the acre-foot and accounted for daily. The releases at Keno operated under no equivalent limit.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Why 121,235 is the floor, not the ceiling<\/h3>\n    <p>The obvious objection to a two-point comparison is that water enters the river between the lake and Keno \u2014 so some of the gap might be local runoff rather than storage. <strong>In 2026 the reach ran the other way.<\/strong> Reclamation's own accounting of net accretions in the Keno impoundment totals <strong>\u221233,447 acre-feet<\/strong> between May 1 and September 30: across the irrigation season the reach was a net <em>loss<\/em>, not a net gain.<\/p>\n    <p>The same point shows up at the lake itself. <strong>Link River Dam released 383,764 acre-feet<\/strong> between May 1 and September 30 against <strong>130,083 acre-feet<\/strong> of net inflow \u2014 <strong>253,681 acre-feet<\/strong> more than the lake took in. Much of that is re-diverted to Project use below the lake, which is why the figure measured at Keno is less than half of it. Either way, the 121,235 acre-feet measured at Keno understates what left storage; it does not overstate it.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"wsu-cap\">The lake's own storage record closes the balance independently: net inflow less Link River releases less A Canal diversions accounts for the measured 331,262 acre-foot drawdown to within <strong>435 acre-feet<\/strong> over 153 days \u2014 about one-tenth of one percent.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"wsu-policy\">\n      <span class=\"plab\">The District's position<\/span>\n      <p><strong>K.I.D.'s position is that no water right authorizes the release of stored water from Upper Klamath Lake for instream flow down the Klamath River.<\/strong> Stored water is not natural flow. It was captured, held, and paid for under the Project's works and contracts, and the Project's contract holders bear the cost of storing it. Water released from storage to meet a flow target at Keno is being put to a use that no decreed right covers \u2014 while the irrigators whose contracts fund that storage are held to 221,000 acre-feet.<\/p>\n      <p>K.I.D. will continue to raise this through its 1954 Operations Contract and the proper administrative and legal channels. This section states a volume and a legal position; it does not modify any contract, water right, or obligation.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>Two numbers that sound contradictory \u2014 and are not<\/h3>\n    <p>Measured across the <strong>full water year<\/strong>, outflow over Keno (611,270 AF) came in <strong>194,145 acre-feet below<\/strong> net inflow to Upper Klamath Lake (805,415 AF). Read alone, that looks like the river never drew on storage at all. 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Project operations put <strong>40,979 acre-feet more<\/strong> down the Klamath than the unaltered basin would have delivered, <strong>107% of natural<\/strong>. Of that, <strong>47,430 acre-feet<\/strong> is Deferred Project Supply: return flow through the Lost River Diversion Channel (31,440 AF) and F\/FF pumping (15,990 AF) that the districts moved and sent back to help meet the Keno targets. <strong>Agriculture drew 41,990 acre-feet of that credit back into use<\/strong>, leaving a balance of 5,440 acre-feet when the water year closed \u2014 the recirculation was not a paper entry.<\/p>\n    <p>The Klamath Project is not a net drain on the river below Keno. 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