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60-year wait over; surface water coming to Odessa Subarea

Columbia Basin farmers relying on declining groundwater supplies in the Odessa Subarea are getting good news three times over.

Contracts signed March 6 will deliver water through the new Weber Siphon to some irrigators as early as this year. Construction now underway at the East Low Canal will deliver more water to others down the line thanks to a water permit just issued by the Washington Department of Ecology.

Dignitaries with Ecology, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, East Columbia Basin Irrigation District and others marked the occasion at a signing ceremony staged at a construction site whe...

 

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