December 3, 2017
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released its proposal to allocate water stored in Willamette Basin reservoirs and is taking comments on the plan through December 22. Your voice is needed! Please act now and ask the Corps to give more water to fish and wildlife and to prioritize threatened fish populations in low-water years.
Meanwhile, the allocation to irrigation is more than triple the amount currently used for that purpose, and municipal and industrial suppliers would get their extra water even though they already have significant unused existing rights and would not be expected to increase conservation to reduce future demands. Moreover, in low water years when reservoirs don’t store enough to meet all of the allocations, threatened fish would be required to share the pain with other uses even though the flow targets used to set their allocation were already reduced for low-water years.
Please contact the Corps (address below) and tell them:
Send your comments to: wbr@usace.army.mil. Per instructions from the Corps, please refer to public notice number: CENWP-PM-E-18-01, as the title of the proposal (Draft Willamette Basin Review Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment) and the “issue date” (November 7, 2017). Thank you!
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