Groundwork laid for new pipeline construction

The groundwork is laid and construction plans are in progress for pump stations and pipelines to carry irrigation water from the Columbia Basin Project to those farmers (who are eligible) pumping ground water from the Odessa subarea.

The work is being done by the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District as part of the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program. Along with landowners, the program is a partnership with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia and the irrigation district, to reduce the depletion of the Odessa aquifer by moving 87,000 acres of irrigate...