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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…

YBSA Monthly Report May, 2014   Yakima River Basin Integrated Plan Water Resource Management Plan update on technical and planning studies.   Fish passage projects at Lake Cle Elum Dam: The Yakima Storage Dams Fish Passage Core Team met with…

    YBSA Monthly Report April, 2014   Scoping Summary for Lake Kachess Pumping Inactive Storage: The Bureau of Reclamation and the Washington State Department of Ecology have distributed the Scoping Summary Report for the proposed Lake Kachess pumping of…

  YBSA Monthly Report March, 2014   The following was presented at the Integrated Plan Workgroup meeting:   A feasibility study on the Kachess Reservoir Drought Relief Project continues to determine the route of a tunnel from Lake Keechelus to…

YBSA Monthly Report February, 2014   Snow Shortage Worries Yakima River Water Users. By Kristi Pihl, Tri-City Herald Feb 16, 2014: The reservoirs for the Yakima River Basin are storing about 116 percent of the average water for this time…

YBSA Monthly Report January, 2014   Weather: Everyone is holding their breath hoping the weather pattern will change and provide the snowpack necessary to provide the approximately 2 million acre/feet of water from the snowpack along with 1 million acre/feet…

YBSA Monthly Report December, 2013   Independent Review of the Storage Component of the Integrated Plan: YBSA has consistently supported the Yakima River Basin Integrated Plan but continues to be concerned with the storage component of the Plan. Our great…

YBSA Monthly Report November, 2013   Scoping Meeting: On November 20th the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Ecology held a scoping meeting to receive comments on the upcoming EIS for both the Kachess Reservoir Inactive Storage and the…

YBSA Monthly Report October, 2013   Lake Cle Elum: Final design of the Lake Cle Elum Pool Raise Project is being prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation in Boise, Idaho. A site visit was conducted on October 9, 2013 to…