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Yakima Basin Storage Alliance

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber addressed Eastern Oregon about using Columbia River water for irrigation.

Yakima Basin Storage Alliance Goals

To launch a grass-root campaign designed to educate and raise the awareness about the need for additional water for fish and irrigated agriculture including its relationship with Washington State communities and economies.

To provide evidence demonstrating why the Yakima Basin desperately needs increased storage to address climate change and groundwater usage effects on the Yakima River.

To illustrate that the Yakima Basin’s economies are in jeopardy if we do not increase water storage for the Yakima Basin.

To become a resource and catalysts for storage activism, both locally and statewide.  To actively investigate, identify, assess, and promote storage solutions.

To become the umbrella organization for Yakima Basin storage supporters that will result in increased storage to benefit irrigated agriculture, instream flows, salmon recovery, Yakima River ecology, and Yakima Basin communities.

Yakima Basin Storage Alliance’s (YBSA) basic message (objective) has been “The Need for a Reliable Water Supply for the Future”.

To more effectively meet the need for water storage and stabilization, YBSA urges that the Columbia River Pumped Storage option be developed as the project to address the long term need for water.  YBSA believes that funding for a study of the Columbia Pumped Storage option should be made a priority and the study should include a pumped storage electricity production element.  With the abundance of wind an water available in the spring a Wind Integration/Pumped Storage project would provide an opportunity for private-public involvement.

Bob Tuck Salmon Walk
on the American River
Full Video

Life Cycle of Spring Chinook on the Cle Elum River Video

Sockeye above Lake Cle Elum Video

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