Month: October 2017

Notes from the Field: Visiting Whychus Creek’s Floodplain

Gen Hubert and Natasha Bellis from the DRC took a tour of the US Forest Service floodplain/habitat restoration project on Whychus Creek on Tuesday. This project is creating crucial habitat for the reintroduced steelhead and…

Tumalo Irrigation District seeks canal-piping bids

KTVZ

The Tumalo Irrigation District is seeking contractor bids for the fifth phase of its project to pipe the Tumalo Feed Canal, to halt water loss due to evaporation and leaks and protect Tumalo Creek flows and Crescent Lake storage.

Expanding Drake Park into water would be costly

Bend Bulletin

Expanding Drake Park by filling a portion of Mirror Pond would be a costly undertaking, members of the Bend Park & Recreation District board learned Tuesday.

Editorial: County takes the right approach on historic designation

Bend Bulletin

The Deschutes County Commission took an important action Monday to stop a historic designation and protect the Deschutes River. It agreed to send a letter to the state’s historic preservation office to oppose the designation of 3.4 miles of Central Oregon Irrigation District canal as historic.

Federal grant to help irrigation districts share water

Bend Bulletin

Thanks to aging infrastructure, complicated legal snags and other factors, some of the irrigation districts operating within the Deschutes Basin are falling short of water. However, a grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should provide a partial solution.

Contractor, irrigation district clash over pipe

Bend Bulletin

A company with an office in Redmond has cried foul after Tumalo Irrigation District denied its bid for a recent piping project, opting instead to go with a bid that’s more than $600,000 more expensive.