Jean: I mean to even identify the problem with the water.
That’s right. The water tests were coming back o.k. They weren’t bad samples. I don’t recall now what the situation was there, but why this was the case.. Several samples didn’t show any high [fecal] coliform count. This is the thing, Dick was getting blamed for this, important people here in the park were getting blamed for this when they were relying on Klamath County health people to tell them what to do and Klamath Country health people weren’t telling them what to do. It was very easy for Klamath County, and Douglas County and the cities around here and Portland to turn around and blame the National Park Service and the Department of Interior and the local superintendent, and everybody else after the fact. It was very easy to do because it was a statewide scandal. I don’t know if you remember this, but it was quite well put out over the state because it was hurting tourism in Oregon. It happened early in June, here’s the start of the tourist season and it was closed up for a good month, something like that. They had to put in a new water system and it was a night and day process, it was one of those “get it out without bid” types of things, you know, to get it going, to get it done. And some of our people from the region stayed down here, Dan Babbitt, he was down here probably for three weeks straight, himself. I suspect that I spent at least four weeks down here in the summer of 1975. We had this hearing and it was pretty much of a crucifixion of Sims.
That was the in-house hearing.
Yeah, that was the in-house hearing.
