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Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study. 2007 Climate & Water Resource Forecast meeting Kelso, WA Kim McCartney Upper Columbia Area Office October 3, 2006. STUDY GOALS.
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Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study 2007 Climate & Water Resource Forecast meeting Kelso, WA Kim McCartney Upper Columbia Area Office October 3, 2006
STUDY GOALS • Improve Anadromous Fish Habitat by Moving Yakima and Naches Rivers Hydrograph toward Natural (unregulated) Shape • Provide not less than 70% of a dry-year irrigation water supply for proratable water right holders • Provide water supply for future municipal surface water needs
Bumping Lake enlargement Keechelus-to-Kachess pipeline Wymer Dam & Reservoir Not carried forward to plan formulation - Provides minimal extra storage Carried forward to plan formulation - Meets the purpose and need - technically viable stakeholder interest Not carried forward to plan formulation - less spring flow - more summer flow - less unregulated than current
Schedule • Yakima Basin Alternatives Report completed June 2006 • Plan Formulation Answer prepared by late fall 2006 • Report prepared for all alternatives • Recommendations for feasibility study • Feasibility study and EIS complete by end of 2008
Call Kim: (509) 575-5848 ext 370Website: www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/storage_studyEmail: storagestudy@pn.usbr.govWrite: Kim McCartney Upper Columbia Area Office 1917 Marsh Road Yakima, WA 98901-2058