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April 11th, 2018 | Category: Central Oregon, Featured Posts, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States | Most Central Oregon residents are aware that the Deschutes River is severely compromised. However, the public is not getting all the information needed to make intelligent choices about the Deschutes River.
Some 90 percent of the water withdrawn from the Deschutes River is for irrigation. By comparison, all industry and municipal withdrawals amount to 5 percent. In other words, if the only withdrawals were for cities like Bend, the Deschutes would still be a functioning river.
As […]
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By TODD KEPPLE • APR 9, 2018
Jefferson Public Radio
The need for more water in the Central Valley of California has generated countless headlines over the years, and officials there have frequently looked as far as Southeastern Oregon for possible sources of water supplies.
The Upper Klamath Basin was still frontier territory in 1858 when the French-language newspaper Le Phare in San Francisco published a story about abundant water supplies to be found north of the state […]
Continue reading As It Was: California Covets Upper Klamath Basin Water
April 7th, 2018 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | Humboldt County Times Standard
By Lyle Marshall
POSTED: 04/06/18, 11:08 PM PDT | UPDATED: 3 HRS AGO
I’m still livid over the March 29 Times-Standard deck head under the headline, “Salmon season likely to reopen” which read, “Hoopa tribe overharvested salmon by 10 times its share, agencies say.” Who determined the Hoopa Tribe’s “share”? The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s position has always been that the 80/20 allocation of in-river harvest, established by the Bureau of […]
Continue reading The KBRA killed the Klamath River
April 5th, 2018 | Category: Central Oregon, Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States | JAYSON JACOBY
THE BAKER CITY HERALD
April 4, 2018
A court ruling requiring officials to pass more water through the spillways of eight federal dams to aid migrating salmon and steelhead, rather than using the water to produce electricity, could increase monthly bills for Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative customers for part of the year.
The decision Monday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affects four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington and […]
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Jefferson Public Radio
By LIAM MORIARTY
March 19, 2018
Oregon’s Second District Congress member Greg Walden says he believes stakeholders in the Klamath Basin can come together again to negotiate a comprehensive solution to the region’s water wars.
After Governor Kate Brown declared a drought emergency in Klamath County last week, Walden told JPR he was working with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to get federal funds to provide emergency relief to growers who could lose access […]
Continue reading Walden Supports Effort To Find A New Klamath Basin Water Pact
Permalink By Kale Williams
kwilliams@oregonian.com
The Oregonian/OregonLive
A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is suing a pair of federal agencies over “missed deadlines, postponed actions, and poor communications” regarding the embattled Chinook salmon and steelhead populations in the Willamette River, the groups said in a statement Monday.
The lawsuit was filed in Portland district court by the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, WildEarth […]
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BEND, Ore. – The Deschutes River is a vital part of life here in Central Oregon.
From recreational activities to agricultural benefits to environmental impacts, the water that flows through the river sustains life.
A study is being done to determine just how best to conserve the river, and now organizations are coming together to protect it.
The $1.5 million study of the river has been going on for over two years.
The idea behind the study is to take […]
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March 1st, 2018 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Health, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Surface Water, United States | Oregon’s newest mega-dairy has repeatedly endangered nearby drinking water by violating environmental laws and should be shut down immediately, the state alleges in a lawsuit.
Lost Valley Farm opened in April 2017 near Boardman along the Columbia River in north central Oregon to supply the Tillamook County Creamery Association, which makes Tillamook Cheese.
Its wastewater permit allows up to 30,000 animals and 187 million gallons of manure per year.
Regulators approved the dairy despite […]
Continue reading Oregon sues to shut down new mega-dairy, citing repeated manure spills
OREGON – The ‘Opioid Crisis’ in America continues to grow at an alarming rate, with nearly 150 deaths per day on average.
Here in Oregon, health officials are scrambling for ways to deal with it, and in their research they’ve found opioids in places where anyone can be exposed to it — your water.
Most people consume opioids for pain, and take them in pill form from a local pharmacy. But Dr. Patrick Luedtke […]
Continue reading The spread of Opioids and involuntary consumption
A3-inch fish that has slowly infiltrated the Deschutes Basin over the past few decades could prove key to understanding the impact of pollution in Central Oregon’s waterways.
“They’re beloved, they’re widespread, they’re easy to relate to and they can tell us a lot about water quality,” said Ann Petersen, a biology professor at Oregon State University-Cascades.
Building off work that began during her time at the University of Oregon, Petersen spearheaded The […]
Continue reading What can a common fish tell us about Deschutes River pollution?
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