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The "real" reason for the delay, is so PacifiCorp can delay the inevitable for as long as possible (and make as much money as possible before they actually have to cease operations when their FERC license expires). This is nothing more than a stall tactic by PacifiCorp to operate the dam "normally" for as long as possible, while trying to look like a "green" utility that supports the environment (while getting the taxpayers to pay to fix the problems they have caused), and milk this for every single nickel for as long as they can!
To answer your other question, the problem isn't runoff per se, but the water picking up biotoxins from the algae growth in the reservoirs, which then gets dumped into the river. Turns out these biotoxins exceed Fed drinking standards by 1,000 to 1,000,000 times (depending on which sample you want to look at!). But once the reservoirs are gone, the biotoxins will not be a problem since the algae will not have a fantastic place to grow like they do now! A huge water quality issue currently affecting the Klamath that disappears once the dams are gone.
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