Month: October 2013

To be a dam, or not

Bend Bulletin

Local officials are researching options to maintain the Newport Avenue dam if the utility that owns the dam decides it no longer makes financial sense to generate hydropower at the site.

House Passes Prineville Water Bill

OPB

For the second time in more than a year, the House has passed a bill that would make more water available for the city of Prineville.

Bowman bill moves forward

Bend Bulletin

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would authorize the release of some of the unallocated water behind Bowman Dam.

Plug pulled; Mirror Pond draining

Bend Bulletin

State, PacifiCorp taking opportunity to study, assess Newport Dam By Hillary Borrud and Scott Hammers PacifiCorp pulled the drain plug on Mirror Pond early Monday, opening up the sluice gates on the Newport Avenue Dam…

House unanimously OKs Walden C.O. 'jobs-water' bill

KTVZ News

The U.S. House on Tuesday unanimously passed Rep. Greg Walden’s (R-Ore.) Central Oregon Jobs and Water Security Act (H.R. 2640), which he said would deliver needed water to Prineville for job creation, pave the way for clean energy at Bowman Dam and give life to important water conservation projects in the region.

Mirror Pond will drop even lower this week

Bend Bulletin

Starting Monday, the company that owns Newport Avenue Dam will lower the water level a couple of inches per hour until it is low enough to investigate a recently discovered leak in the dam.

Crooked River dam being dismantled

Bend Bulletin

An excavator plucked rocks and logs out of Stearns Dam Thursday morning, and the Crooked River began flowing faster through the created notch.