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November 14, 2019 Kym Kemp Redheaded Blackbelt The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld the senior water rights of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and other Tribes in an appeal by Baley v. United States. Baley and other Klamath Irrigation District farmers argued that the federal government took their water without compensation in 2001 when water deliveries were delayed in order to […] Continue reading TODAY, US COURT OF APPEALS UPHELD SENIOR WATER RIGHTS OF TRIBES By DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY and MICHELLE MINKOFF Associated Press On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house. Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ice-covered […] Continue reading Oregon dams among more than 1,600 at risk nationally, AP investigation finds By Evan Bush Seattle Times staff reporter WINTHROP, Okanogan County — Follow the water and you’ll find the money. That’s how it often works in the dusty rural corners of Washington, where a Wall Street-backed firm is staking an ambitious venture on the state’s water. Crown Columbia Water Resources since 2017 has targeted the water rights of farms on tributaries of the mighty Columbia River. This March, […] Continue reading Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water The Guardian by Tom Perkins The network of clear streams comprising California’s Strawberry Creek run down the side of a steep, rocky mountain in a national forest two hours east of Los Angeles. Last year Nestlé siphoned 45m gallons of pristine spring water from the creek and bottled it under the Arrowhead Water label. Though it’s on federal land, […] Continue reading The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press GRESHAM, Ore. — Faced with climate change, a growing population and aging infrastructure, the state of Oregon is reaching out to local communities for ideas to ensure clean and abundant water supplies over the next 100 years. The Oregon Water Resources Commission has already adopted an Integrated Water Resources Strategy, which was last updated in 2017. It identifies 18 critical water issues and more than 50 recommendations for meeting the state’s water needs […] Continue reading Communities weigh in on Oregon’s 100-year water vision
Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director,Columbia Riverkeeper Today I stood on the Columbia’s shores at Celilo Park and watched history in the making. Yakama Nation, supported by Lummi Nation, announced a bold vision: a Columbia River teeming with salmon, a restored Celilo Falls, and a Pacific Northwest powered by clean energy that does not drive salmon and orca to extinction. Yakama Nation Chairman Jode Goudy stated: “The Columbia River dams were […] Continue reading Yakama and Lummi Nations Call for Removal of Three Columbia River Dams by Jes Burns Follow OPB Oct. 5, 2019 1:45 p.m. | Ashland, Ore. OPB A U.S. district court says Oregon must develop new plans to keep the state’s rivers from getting too warm for fish. A ruling Friday set a series of deadlines that cover more than a dozen rivers, including the Willamette, Umpqua, Rogue, John Day, Columbia and Snake. Federal law requires Oregon have plans in place to ensure that the state’s rivers don’t […] Continue reading Federal Judge Sets Deadlines For Oregon To Redo River Temperature Guidelines It’s a hot day in late July, and Matt Blakely-Smith is leading a tour of the Greenbelt Land Trust’s latest restoration project at Horseshoe Lake, a 236-acre piece of former farm property that wraps around a bend in the Willamette River between Corvallis and Albany. The nonprofit environmental group has brought in a local excavating firm to take out two raised farm roads that form a dam across the arms of Horseshoe Lake, a cut-off oxbow that once was […] Continue reading Getting their feet wet: Intel and other big firms begin to fund Willamette River restoration work SEATTLE — US protections for the waters that a group of endangered orcas call home could soon expand beyond the Seattle area to encompass much of the West Coast, from the Canadian border to central California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a proposal Wednesday to increase the critical habitat designation for southern resident killer whales by more than sevenfold under the Endangered Species Act. Just 73 orcas remain in […] Continue reading Feds propose major habitat protections for killer whales Eastern Oregonian By Michael Kohn EO Media Group BEND — The supply of drinking water at the Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program on Dodds Road near Bend, as well as nine other national guard facilities in Oregon, contains toxic fluorinated chemicals, according to data released by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental organization. While the levels of PFAS chemicals in the water fall within those considered safe by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, some scientists are concerned that even low levels […] Continue reading ‘Forever chemicals’ found in water at Oregon National Guard bases, school |
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