Irrigators files lawsuit

Odessa Subarea Irrigators and the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association have filed a lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Eastern District of Washington, stressing that Reclamation has arbitrarily delayed and blocked the approval of a new water service contract for the irrigators’ privately funded project to bring surface water from the East Low Canal. System 1 would be the first step in the overall plan/project to bring surface water irrigation to about 70,000 acres (or more) of farmland in the Odessa Subarea, both north and south of I-90. The initial developme...