Part 2: Bringing water to the desert

Part 2 of our series on Odessa’s water issues (continued from the January 19 edition of The Odessa Record) continues this week.

Why not just... dig deeper?

Digging deeper wells into the Grande Ronde Basalt layer is one of the options available to the Town of Odessa in the future for meeting its municipal water needs.

How deep? Based on current peak demand, the GWMA has estimated that a new well will have to supply 1,000 gallons per minute (gpm), be 700 to 1,400 feet deep (based on the water level declines already seen in irrigation wells in the Odessa vicinity) and have a casing that extends d...