Weekly Updates

This page is intended to guide you to the many regular updates produced by KBMP partners relating to water quality, flow management, fish enumeration, fish disease, and dam removal research. Please note that any in-season data presented is likely PRELIMINARY and should not be cited or considered final data. When in doubt, please contact the appropriate entity. 

Where these are posted regularly to agency or tribal websites, links are provided below. Where they are sent out only via email distribution lists, we note who to contact to be added to the email list. 

Water Quality

US Geological Survey 

The USGS distributes two weekly (in-season) water quality updates for 1) Upper Klamath Lake and 2) the Upper Klamath River (Link River Dam to above Keno Dam), please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the USGS to get on these email lists. 

Klamath River Hydrologic Update

The US Bureau of Reclamation hosts weekly Real Time Operations group meetings (formerly Flow Account Scheduling Technical Advisory team, or FASTA) and email updates which share information relating to Klamath Basin forecasts and conditions, Klamath Project real-time operations, impacts of real-time operations on species, and operations decision-making processes. To attend these weekly meetings and stay informed with email updates, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with USBR.

Juvenile Outmigration Monitoring Updates

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

To receive weekly in-season updates via email, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with CDFW

 

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Trap catch summaries are posted online, typically from March - June

 

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Juvenile outmigrant trap updates for Spencer Creek and the Klamath River below the former J.C. Boyle Dam (example)

To receive weekly in-season updates, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with ODFW

Adult Fish Counting Facility Updates

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

CDFW provides weekly updates for the adult fish counting facilities on the Shasta River, Scott River, Bogus Creek, Jenny Creek, and Shovel Creek (example)

To receive weekly in-season updates via email, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with CDFW

 

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

To receive in-season adult fish counting facility updates for Oregon via email, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at ODFW

 

Fish Health

Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team (KFHAT)

Current Readiness Levels and updates from field crews are summarized on the KFHAT page

 

Fish Pathogen Monitoring Studies (OSU)

Oregon State University provides regular updates on sentinel fish exposures, water samples for fish disease pathogen concentrations and genotyping, and annelid sampling results

Dam Removal Research Updates

Following the January 2023 Klamath Dam Removal Science Collaboration Workshop, researchers continued an effort to share information about their work. This includes an informal summary of monthly research updates from a variety of partners involved in research related to the removal of Klamath River dams.

To submit your updates, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with Southern Oregon University.