April 23, 2017
Updated: Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer: Overview and Developments
The past winter was a record year for recharge in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain. With support from the state legislature, recharge efforts…
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Irrigation & farms
Irrigated farming is the reason the coalition existed. This hub gathers the posts and pages about crops, canals, center pivots, groundwater decline and water supply in the Umatilla and Morrow county farm belt, plus the wider Columbia Basin reports the blog reposted.
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April 11, 2014
March storms lift NW water supply forecast
“March was a great month for the Pacific Northwest” as regards the collection of mountain snowpack that will feed the Columbia and Snake…
March 7, 2014
Surface water issued for some Odessa farmers
Some Columbia Basin farmers soon will be able to use Columbia River water to irrigate crops on 80,000 acres, instead of rapidly declining groundwater…
February 10, 2012
NW states want tougher Lake Mead Quagga inspections
Northwest states and Canadian provinces have launched a letter-writing and lobbying campaign to assure that a $1 million appropriation line…
January 16, 2012
Columbia-Snake irrigators plead with lawmakers for help
As much as 140,000 acres of farmland in the Mid-Columbia may go dry in less than a decade unless state and federal governments take action,…
March 14, 2008
Forecast shows 2008 basin runoff normal or higher
There were a few drier-than-average areas in February, but precipitation fell where it counts most to assure, or nearly so, that the…
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