YBSA Monthly Report March, 2015 Extended Comment Period: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Kachess Drought Relief Pumping Plant and Keechelus Reservoir-to-Kachess Reservoir Conveyance, consisting of more than 1600 pages, was available on January 9, 2015. The 60…
YBSA Monthly Report February, 2015 Possible Drought Conditions: Once again the Yakima Valley agricultural community is in danger of drought conditions due to the lack of snowfall in the Cascade Mountains. The water needed for instream flow (fish) and…
YBSA Monthly Report January, 2015 Kachess Drought Relief and Keechelus to Kachess Conveyance: One of the proposed storage sites in the Yakima Basin listed in the Integrated Plan is to pump an additional 200,000 a/f of water from…
YBSA Monthly Report December, 2014 Benefit-Costs of the seven elements of the Integrated Plan: The Washington State Legislature authorized in the Capital Budget for 2013, the preparation of a separate benefit-cost analysis for each of the projects proposed in the…
YBSA Monthly Report November, 2014 Testimony at Honeyford’s Meeting on a Water Bill: YBSA presented the following testimony at Senator Jim Honeyford’s Public Meeting on water bill being proposed to fund projects that address needed Storage. YBSA is…
YBSA Monthly Report October, 2014 Review of the Integrated Plan: YBSA contracted with Normandeau Associates Inc., a national environmental consultant, to do an independent review of the Integrated Plan. The review was to evaluate: if the Integrated Plan…
YBSA Monthly Report September, 2014 The proposed Cle Elum Pool Raise Project would store 14,600 acre/feet of water at a cost of $9,901,000. The cost does not include property acquisition that would be required. The stored water would…
YBSA Monthly Report August, 2014 Mt. Adams September 1, 2014 Governor Visits Valley About Climate Change: Governor Jay Inslee toured the Yakima Valley on August 27. He praised the Roza Irrigation District’s project to temporally store up to…
YBSA Monthly Report July, 2014 Summer is half over and our growing season is in full swing. Instream flow for fish, out-of-stream water for agriculture and for other uses is still being provided by water stored in the…
YBSA Monthly Report June, 2014 Keechelus-to-Kachess Conveyance: The Keechelus-to-Kachess Conveyance pictured below shows the possible routes to move water from Keechelus to Kachess to augment the quantity of water necessary to make the Kachess drought relief project workable Kachess…
