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Voice of the Project | 2020 Quarterly Newsletter | Volume 11, Issue 1 VOICE OF THE PROJECT | 2020 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 VOICE OF THE PROJECT OUR MISSION Supporting the Columbia Basin Project since 1964. Serving as the voice of the Columbia Basin Project – advocating for completion and sustainable maintenance. IN THIS ISSUE 03 ADAMS COUNTY BRIDGE UPDATE 04 ODESSA GROUND WATER REPLACEMENT PROJECT: A BRIEF OVERVIEW Photo courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation. Image by Bob Wick. The John Day River watershed 05 LEAGUE TO COORDINATE SPEAKERS FOR NATIONAL ASFMRA supports one of the largest remaining populations of wild Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin. CONFERENCE 05 LEAGUE BOARD MEMBER APPOINTED TO CRPAG 06 POTHOLES BANK STORAGE 07 WAITING FOR WATER: WATCH THIS 10-MINUTE FILM 08 THREE NEW TRUSTEES JOIN LEAGUE BOARD 09 TRANSFERRING WATER RIGHTS AS PART OF OGWRP 10 MYTRI AG COUNCIL UPDATE DARVIN FALES AND COLUMBIA 10 LEAGUE’S EXECUTIVE APPOINTED TO MYTRI AG COUNCIL 11 SAVE THE DATE: LEAGUE CONFERENCE ON NOV. 5 BASIN HYDROPOWER olumbia Basin Hydropower provides administration, operations, and maintenance for hydroelectric facilities Cowned by the three Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts (East, South, and Quincy). The power they produce benefits the local economy and the farmers of the Columbia Basin. Darvin Fales has been involved with the Columbia Basin Project for 34-and-a-half years. He started as an engineer at South District, then became manager at Quincy, and he is the manager at Columbia Basin Hydropower. When he first arrived, last year, CB Hydropower PERMIT NO. 7 NO. PERMIT focused on operations and maintenance. Existing plants were CASHMERE MAILING HOUSE MAILING CASHMERE Cashmere, WA 98815 WA Cashmere, part of the main focus as well and this made for a hectic winter US POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE US PO Box 745 Box PO maintenance schedule. Some of the most expensive modernizations PRSRT STD PRSRT CBDL Continued on page 2 “Darvin Fales and Columbia Basin Hydropower” continued from page 1 2020 OFFICERS Mark Stedman, Chair, Davenport Matt Harris, Vice Chair, Moses Lake Orman Johnson, Treasurer, Othello Clark Kagele, Secretary, Odessa Kevin Lyle, Past Chair, Othello Dale Pomeroy, At-Large, Warden Stephen McFadden, At-Large, Othello William Wagoner, At-Large, Quincy Jake Wollman, Jr., At-Large, Warden 2020 TRUSTEES Alice Parker, Royal City Benjamin Leavitt, Warden Brad Peck, Pasco Chip Dobson, Mattawa Kelly Cochrane, Kahlotus Eli Stahl, Ritzville Richard Burres, Kennewick JJ Danz, Mesa Joe Gross, Marlin Photo courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation. Construction of Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. Grand John Moody, Ephrata Coulee Dam is the largest hydropower producer in the United States with a total generating capacity of 6,809 megawatts. It is also John Preston, Warden part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating more than 600,000 acres, and is the cornerstone for water control on the Columbia Mark Booker, Othello River in the United States. Alan Loebsack, Waterville Michele Kiesz, Ritzville occurred during the past winter at three of the five plants. Development of new sites are also Mike LaPlant, Ephrata Darvin’s responsibility. These include small plants and one large plant: Banks Lake Storage Milt Miller, Moses Lake Randy Gubler, Moses Lake Project. Reid Phillips, Ritzville Roger Hartwig, Ritzville Q. How does the work of Columbia Basin Hydropower benefit CBP irrigation districts and Vicki Gordon, Pasco landowners? Christina Wyatt, Ritzville STAFF A. The revenue generated by Columbia Basin Hydropower benefits landowners by Vicky Scharlau, Executive Director supplementing irrigation district revenue and keeping costs down for landowners. Mike Schwisow, Government Relations Director Kate Walker, Federal Advocate Q. What are the priorities of the new manager at CBH, both in the short- and long-terms? Sara Higgins, Assistant Director Kate Taylor, Logistics Sebastian Moraga, Communications A. One thing Darvin believes is really important and needs to be emphasized as priority No. Katlyn Straub, Projects 1 is, always get the water to the farm. In his view, CBH must operate its generation plants as Debbie Sands, Business efficiently as it can, without interrupting the supply or flow of water to the farm. Julie Brezicha, Membership Another priority of whose success Darvin is proud in light of COVID-19, involves enacting measures to keep employees safe. This includes working from home and allowing only one CONNECT WITH US! person out per shift or in a vehicle. The CBH has tried to keep up with sanitary and safety regulations. This region needs electricity so it’s important that CBH personnel stay at work and @ColumbiaBasinDevelopmentLeague keep the generators running. #ColumbiaBasinProject www.cbdl.org l 509.782.9442 Other short-term goals include small hydro plant development that is cost-effective and low maintenance. Long-term: There are lots of moving parts that people aren’t always aware of. Besides the day-to-day work, operations, and power generations, they are looking at renegotiating the power purchase contracts. VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER l 2 These are 40-year contracts that start from the date of commercial production of electricity. Smith Plant started in 1982 and it expires in 2022, for example. Currently they have great contracts, and they hope to continue good relationships with their partners including. Seattle, Tacoma, and Grant PUD. Q. What is the North Dam Project? A. Dry Falls Dam, a big earthen dam sits at the south end of Banks Lake. At the north end of the lake, sits a small dam called North Dam. The concept for this project started around 2010, and a license was put in with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Over time, the North Dam Project was renamed The Banks Lake Pump Storage Project. The concept Photo courtesy of Nicholls Kovich includes a couple of large tunnels bored from Banks Lake down to Lake Roosevelt, just upstream of the Keyes Plant at Grand Coulee Dam. Water gets pumped into Banks Lake during ADAMS COUNTY BRIDGE off-peak energy demand times such as after 10 p.m. The pumps get turned on until morning and the electricity demand UPDATE comes back. Then, stored “energy” sits in Banks Lake until it is needed and the water is run back downhill to Lake Roosevelt, he Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program is transferring generating between 300-1000 MW of power and energy deep well irrigators from the depleting Odessa Aquifer to more during the peak times when demand is high. T reliable Columbia Basin Project surface water. The project includes expanding the width of canals to increase delivery capacity. Q. What is the status of the Banks Lake Pump Storage When canal widths increase, the bridges that cross the canals need Project? to be replaced or eliminated. 10 bridges have been identified for replacement by the engineering firm of Nicholls Kovich, eight of them A. Columbia Basin Hydropower has been actively pursuing this in Adams County. The county has secured a construction estimate of project for about seven to eight years. They are working on a about $26 million. lease from the Bureau of Reclamation and one license from FERC from the Bureau of Reclamation and licenses from FERC Final cost estimates rose to about twice as much per bridge as the to allow for construction. original projections. Next steps include securing funding, both through federal and state sources. The preliminary lease is on track to be issued in January of 2021. An engineering firm has been hired and has done the technical work. This firm is working on the preliminary designs of penstocks, generators, transmission lines, and civil structures. It’s a $1.4 billion pump storage project and Columbia Basin Hydropower is six years out from completion if QUOTE OF THE QUARTER all goes well. Funding for the project will determine its outcome. The other NURTURE YOUR MIND WITH GREAT part of the project involves securing power purchasers for the THOUGHTS, FOR YOU WILL NEVER GO power generated. ANY HIGHER THAN YOU THINK. - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister from 1874-1880 3 l VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER ODESSA GROUND WATER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM: SHOVEL READY he Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is Basin Project irrigation districts, a signed delivery capacity, and, 2) construction of the water source for thousands of Memorandum of Understanding outlined pump stations and pipelines on several Tfarmers. While waiting for continued water availability for municipal and industrial lateral systems to deliver CBP water to farms development of the CBP, decades ago, the permits, in-stream flows, and drought relief. now reliant on the aquifer. Department of Ecology issued farmers The East Low Canal widening is almost permits to use ground water to irrigate more Its rapid decline made the Odessa aquifer complete, with Washington state investing than 100,000 acres. The Odessa aquifer critical, so the three agencies agreed $105 million including all studies and plummeted and now threatens the supply to create a program that addressed the consultation. What remains is the for rural communities including Lind, Odessa, economic and environmental catastrophe the construction of gravity-based and pump- Connell, Othello, Warden, and Moses Lake. depleting aquifer would unleash. based delivery systems to replace 70,000 acres with CBP irrigation water to farms. Conservation programs already cover more than 10,000 acres. LATERAL: ACRES REPLACED: 2019 ESTIMATED COST: About $255,500,000 would continue EL 11.8 3,000 $12,973,750 implementation of the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program and change EL 22.1 19,000 $70,203,188 the irrigation source from failing wells on a depleting aquifer to ample CBP supplies. It EL 40.2 11,000 $41,627,495 would also allow production of high-value EL 54.0 8,000 $28,104,321 crops to continue on 97,000 acres; and would conserve remaining ground water for EL 73.3 18,000 $62,384,214 domestic, municipal and industrial uses in rural communities.
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