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...Northern California town of Orland, Donna Marley, 40, a widow, saw her December electric bill of $87 leap to $210 in a month. Neighbors Barney and Verna Cushman were shocked when their December bill of $360 surged to $624 in January. Nor have PG&E customers been the only ones hit. In San Diego, Verna Murray, a customer of San Diego Gas & Electric, thought that her $250 per month electricity payments were already excessive; her December bill exploded...
...California: East Park Dam on Little Stony Creek requires a larger spillway. Stony Gorge Dam, in the Orland Project near Chico, needs reinforcement...
Until now, Orland has been famed chiefly for its appearance in Ripley's Believe It or Not as a tiny town with no fewer than 13 bars and 21 churches-all active. Today, Orland is better known as a victim of a savage drought that is entering its second year. Its orchards, dairies, small farms and citizens are all in trouble, and the bars and churches are better patronized than ever before. In fact, the churches have been holding rain prayer meetings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night-so far to no avail...
Normally, Orland's three reservoirs contain 140,000 acre-feet of water; now they are down to 5,000 acre-feet. Instead of the usual 18 crop irrigations per season, there will only be one this year. Farms have suffered more than $3 million in losses, and farmers' incomes have been cut by one-half to two-thirds. The town's businesses, which depend on agriculture, are down 40% in sales. Twenty-seven of 58 grade AAA dairymen have sold out and left the community. If the orchards do not get sufficient water by spring, the remaining...
...true dimension of Orland's plight becomes apparent in a walk through the fields with burly, gray-haired Robert McCombs. His quarter-mile-long slough for storage is empty. So is his well. His oats are stunted like a day's growth of beard on the dry fields. He sold off calving cows earlier this year because he could not water them. Paul Pehrson's 20 acres of orange trees are literally dying before his eyes. "It would take me ten to 15 years to get started again," he says. "I can't face starting...