SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The Western states'era of massive dam construction - which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems - effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam. But the region's booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying construction of dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Western states' era of massive dam construction - which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems - effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam. But the region's booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying construction of dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.
SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Western states' era of massive dam construction -- which tamed rivers, swallowed towns and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems - - effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border. But the region's booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying construction of dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.
... of water delivered by us that supports irrigated agriculture, livestock, Carriage Agreements or oth...
PROSSER -- The Prosser Wine and Food Fair has found a new home. Organizers have decided to hold the 28th annual festival, billed as the state's largest outdoor wine-tasting event, at the Washington State University Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center.
... discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture. . 33U.S.C. § 1362(14) (emphasis adde...
Two years ago the owner of 14 acres of residential-agricultural land off Valverde Street, which had not been used for agriculture or irrigated for many decades, listed it for sale. A neighbor, Kristina Wilson, who owns about 212 acres of nearby land, urged the town to buy the 14 acres to keep it as open space and add it to the park she had created on her land. Then Mrs. Wilson learned that a group of local residents had been trying to find a way to build an environmentally sustainable senior community where they could live. So, when the town decided in October 2006 that it could not afford to buy the 14 acres, and a developer had made an offer on that land for a standard development, she urged members of the local group (now known as Valverde Commons) to buy the land and to use it partl...
Agriculture The Washington State University Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center has hired Nnadozie Oraguzie as a stone fruit breeder-geneticist. Oraguzie previously held several research positions at the Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, a commercially focused government research center.
With this summer's drought offering a constant reminder that water is the lifeline of irrigated agriculture in the Yakima River Basin, it's time for some tough decisions and determined leadership to fix the problems so evident in the Wapato Irrigation Project. What once was considered a showcase of how things should be done in an irrigation project, WIP now stands as an example of the opposite. Neighbor to basin irrigation districts that could offer examples of how better to deliver water supplies to farmlands and orchards, the Wapato project is now held up as a model of inefficiency -- one that critics say staggers from crisis to crisis.
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