Klamath Basin Water Rights
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-04 — Klamath Basin Water Agreement Support Act of 2024: cross-connection with klamath-basin-water-restoration: The 2024 Act’s facilities transfers (Keno/Link River) and Tulelake pumping cost-share interact with ongoing Klamath Basin water rights allocations among irrigators, tribes, and fish flows. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-05-05 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt”.: cross-connection with longfin-smelt-esa-listing: Both involve tension between ESA listings for native fish and western water supply/allocation regimes. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-17 — Yurok Tribe v. Klamath Water Users Association: Ninth Circuit issued an opinion on 17 June 2026 in Yurok Tribe v. Klamath Water Users Association addressing water-rights claims in the Klamath Basin dispute; abstract provides case caption and date only, without substantive holding details. (novelty: 2)