The Bend Park & Recreation District plans to seek an exception from state laws governing in-river construction to ensure the Colorado Avenue Dam safe passage project can be completed by next summer.
Bend Mayor Jim Clinton has come out in support of the city helping to pay the cost to keep Mirror Pond. If the idea wins support from other city councilors, it would be a departure from current city policy.
Deschutes County commissioners will hear two vastly different takes next week on the impact of a local irrigation district’s proposal to replace nearly a mile of open canal with a closed pipe.
Central Oregon Irrigation District is proposing to destroy a reach of the historic Pilot Butte Canal in a northeast Bend residential neighborhood to expand its Juniper Ridge hydropower facility.
The Department of the Interior announced Monday that the Bureau of Reclamation will make $1.8 million available for comprehensive water studies addressing climate change options to three western river basins, with the largest grant going to the upper Deschutes River basin in central Oregon.
With less than three weeks before a public hearing over a controversial Central Oregon Irrigation District proposal to pipe a northeast Bend canal, another local irrigation district could be following in its footsteps.
The Department of the Interior announced Monday that the Bureau of Reclamation will make $1.8 million available for comprehensive water studies addressing climate change options to three Western river basins, including the Upper Deschutes Basin in Central Oregon.
The first phase of a makeover for 1½ miles of Whychus Creek south of Sisters is complete.
The Crooked River upstream of Prineville Reservoir is already running low, and portions of the river could go dry this summer because of drought.
