This 1926 cover shows a wooden stave pipe under construction in northern California. The 16-ft-dia, 1,318-ft-long conduit connected two concrete-lined tunnels at a hydroelectric plant on the Klamath River.
California and Oregon now are dam co-licensees for estimated $450M Klamath River project to resolve federal concerns, but major work by contractor Kiewit is pushed back one year.
When the U.S. Congress adjourned in December, it scrapped a water-rights settlement package meant to end years of bitter haggling in California and Oregon’s Klamath Basin among farmers, fishermen, utilities ratepayers and environmentalists.
