In the Media

The best option for Bend to treat the water from Bridge Creek is membrane filtration, not ultraviolet light.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

Fish biologists believe several “unusual" conditions — including drought, fish migrating out of Wickiup Reservoir and better than average rainfall in recent years — contributed to the stranding of about 3,000 fish last week in a side channel on the Deschutes River upstream of Bend.

Fish biologists attribute the deaths of about 3,000 fish in a side channel of the Deschutes River in Central Oregon to several unusual conditions, including better than average rainfall the previous two years.