News blog · 2007–2014
Oregon Water Online
The coalition’s news blog started on WordPress.com in 2007 and moved to /blog/ in 2009. Most entries are short reposts of regional reporting, chiefly the Columbia Basin Bulletin, picked for irrigators: snowpack and runoff forecasts, BPA power rates, salmon runs, dam operations and water-right decisions. Each report below is restored on its original address with its source line.
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2014
- Irrigators seeking rarely used review on fish populations
- The Power of Hydro
- March storms lift NW water supply forecast
- Study: Crude oil spills cause heart defects in marine fish
- Wanapum: Multiple fracture causes ruled out
- Oversupply: BPA will allocate costs based on use
- Tropical Pacific warming patterns, winds hint at El Niño
- Officials assess crack in Wanapum Dam
- Surface water issued for some Odessa farmers
- Columbia Basin water runoff at 82 percent of average
- Study: Climate change and Columbia Basin streamflow
- USGS: Studying impacts to rivers affected by dams
- Studying juvenile steelhead from release to adult return
- Despite dryness, forecast shows runoff at 93 percent
- Scientists study Pacific’s climate-shaping ‘global chimney’
- Snake fish passages need ‘thermal-hydraulic’ features
2012
- Richardson touts Columbia water storage and use bill
- BPA proposal to compensate wind generators
- NW states want tougher Lake Mead Quagga inspections
- Streamflow prediction now at 92% of 30-year average
- Administration releases national climate strategy draft
- NW moisture gives ‘snow-water equivalent’ big boost
- Columbia-Snake irrigators plead with lawmakers for help
- 2012 OWC Membership Meeting & Water Conference
2011
- 2011 Chinook, Steelhead harvest yields high numbers
- Debris from tsunami could reach west coast this winter
- Hanford Reach fall Chinook redd counts above average
- Land trust acquires Willamette conservation easements
- Selective traits in hatchery fish can occur in one generation
- WA issues first non-interruptible Columbia water rights
- FERC calls BPA’s high power cutoff rule discriminatory
- Fishing trends hit predators hard, impact marine systems
- Terns, Cormorants consume 15-20% wild hatchery smolts
- Upper Deschutes anglers unhappy over water releases
- Biologists optimistic about Snake River Sockeye return
- Estuary’s Salmon-eating Tern colony produces no chicks
- Chairman Hastings’ statement on Judge Redden ruling
- Keeping Quaggas at bay, more ‘fouled’ boats identified
- Tribes support new Sea Lion removal effort
- Studying impacts of storms, waves on Pacific coast
- Study: Danger of ‘trojan gene effect’ in modified Salmon
- NOAA initiative to increase of domestic aquaculture output
- Removing large fish triggers trophic cascade in ecosystems
- AFS again calls for breaching Snake River dams
- Comment sought on Grand Coulee pumping modernization
- BPA: Wind energy curtailed 6.2% of scheduled output
- Virus forces euthanization of juvenile steelhead at hatchery
- Report: Ocean at risk of entering mass extinction phase
2009
- BPA, Alcoa pact saves jobs and meets court mandates
- Largest spring Chinook return predicted in 2010
- Clearwater Coho project nets enough adults for eggs
- Council briefed on Quagga-Zebra Mussel action plan
- Hatchery aimed at restoring Salmon in Okanagan Basin
- Cascade snowpack declines despite no change in precip
- New ODFW site details spending by anglers, hunters
- Oregon requires boaters to fund invasive species programs
- DOE selects northwest team for smart grid project
- Report suggests public wants to ‘go slow’ on wave energy
- Brown Pelican delisted, estuary hosts largest Pacific roost
- Ninth circuit panel hears arguments on lethal removal
- Study: farmers and floodwaters help native fish species
- Bill to study impacts of lower Snake dam removal
- Reducing rising water temps in lower Snake River
- Former representative Chuck Norris dies July 20 in FL
- Fairbanks Morse to supply flood control to New Orleans
- H2-WHOA! Australian town bans the sales of bottled water
2008
- IRZ study discovers method to conserve water, boost economy
- Groups challenge Lake Roosevelt drawdown and water rights
- Magnetic field: new theory how Salmon find birthplace
- One-third of China’s Yellow River polluted
- Alaska Salmon harvest: 146 million fish, $409 million value
- Council hears about electric car impacts on power system
- Predicting climate change impact on Salmon stocks
- New Hermiston DuPont facility to ramp up faster corn hybrids
- Study examines separating Great Lakes, Mississippi Basin
- Polar Bears not threatened but jobs, economy, energy are
- Fresno considers lawn buybacks to save water
- NYC tap water bottled, sold in stores for $1.50
- Snake River sockeye are speedsters in ocean swimming
- Northwest is Saudi Arabia of hydrogen energy
- FERC approves gas terminal, pipeline in Columbia estuary
- Pinks, humpies defying past trends in Columbia River
- Dworshak failure alters flow, regime for migrating salmon
- FERC urged to slow down on estuary natural gas terminal
- Idaho releases plan to increase, conserve Snake white sturgeon
- NMFS must examine pesticide impacts on salmon
- Agreement could open up new water rights for WA irrigators
- Feds defend sea lion decision; take could be 22% of steelhead
- Reclamation reveals plan for Water for America Initiative
- Litigation only delays recovery, increases carbon footprint
- NOAA: seven stocks removed from overfishing list, none added
- More time for negotiations on Columbia dredging mitigation
- World energy use to grow 50%; hydro, renewables 2.1%
- Spring chinook season shows increase over past three years
- Late runoff filling Dworshak for summer salmon migration
- Tribes start commercial fishery and direct sales to public
- Surprising surge of sockeye opens mainstem sport fishery
- NW families, businesses to invest billions more in salmon recovery
- Corps moves ahead on juvenile fish passage project
- Draft EIS considers more water from Lake Roosevelt
- ESA impact limits force shut-down of Columbia fish harvest
- NOAA: Western U.S. snowpack healthiest in decade
- 3-4 billion barrels of oil in North Dakota & Montana
- Forecast shows 2008 basin runoff normal or higher
- BPA reaches 1,000 megawatt wind milestone