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…
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…
