Although a wet February and March eased some drought concern in Crook County, the head of the Ochoco Irrigation District isn’t sure whether he’ll be able to make full deliveries to all 862 of his customers this year.
The Bend man behind a proposed ballot initiative focused on Mirror Pond has pulled his original filing only to refile the exact same initiative.
Two proposed ballot initiatives could complicate Bend officials’ plan to take over Mirror Pond Dam, although a dispute over grammar has already delayed one of the efforts.
A nearly yearlong, heated dispute continued Thursday between the Central Oregon Irrigation District and several dozen property owners just northeast of Bend city limits over the fate of an irrigation canal that winds through their backyards.
PacifiCorp has completed repairs to the Mirror Pond dam, a spokesman said Wednesday, and believes water levels in the pond should return to normal this summer.
Three alternative solutions for the future of Mirror Pond were presented Thursday at a meeting of the City Club of Central Oregon.
Homeowners whose properties wind along a slow-moving canal in northeast Bend are rallying against an irrigation district’s plan to fill nearly a mile of the canal with closed piping.
One pineapple express after another bringing warm rain across Oregon has helped boost reservoirs west of the Cascades and snowpacks in the northern mountains.
The committee looking into what should be done with Mirror Pond got an up-close look at the leaking dam there Wednesday, joining representatives of PacifiCorp on a tour of the more than 100-year-old facility.
