The Year in Review

November

After a nearly 10-year effort, the Board of Directors of the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District adopted a resolution to allocate the first 17,639 acres of new Columbia Basin Project water to replace ground water permits in the declining Odessa Subarea aquifer.

The Board’s resolution designated water for an initial pump station and pipeline system which would serve about 10,000 acres of eligible deep-well irrigated lands south of Interstate 90, utilizing new East Low Canal delivery capacity created as a result of more than $35 million in state and federal investments in Weber Coul...