Water-bottling plant a source of concern

The barren shoreline of Shasta Lake shows the steady drop in the water level.

A bent tree trunk in the forest near Mount Shasta shows evidence of the weight of heavy snowfall in past years.

Community activist Roslyn McCoy visits the barren slopes of Mount Shasta Board and Ski Park.

Joyce Kyle and husband Chester breakfast at Mount Shasta Pastry. They sold off their cattle and stopped renting pastures after the county cut off access to a ditch and reservoir system that delivered water from Mt. Shasta.

Activist Raven Stevens lowers a sensor into a neighborhood well. The data will help her gauge how much Crystal Geyser’s future pumping lowers the level of the surrounding water table.

Luisa Navejas of the Winnemem Wintu tribe and her husband, Mark Miyoshi, hold a bottle of water from their home well at the base of Mt. Shasta.

Bruce Hillman is a critic of the Crystal Geyser plant.