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    YBSA Monthly Report June, 2015 Reservoirs and Available Water: As of June 29th the percentage of total capacity of the five reservoirs is 76%. With the snowpack at 0% the inflow into the five reservoirs is 25% and…

YBSA Monthly Report May, 2015 Water in the Yakima Basin: 1. The Yakima Valley economy depends on water storage for its agricultural economy, population growth, and ecosystem. 2. Droughts are common in the area, but climate change indicators point to…

YBSA Monthly Report April, 2015 Yakima River Basin Drought 2015: Today we have a full reservoir system at about 99% and normally that would occur in early June. The outflows from the reservoirs exceed inflow because of irrigator demand and…

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…