VOICE OF THE PROJECT | 2020 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1

VOICE OF THE PROJECT OUR MISSION Supporting the 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

Columbia Basin Hydropower provides administration, operations, and maintenance for hydroelectric facilities owned 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

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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 2020 OFFICERS with their partners including. Seattle, Tacoma, and Grant PUD. Mark Stedman, Chair, Davenport Matt Harris, Vice Chair, Moses Lake Q. What is the North Dam Project? Orman Johnson, Treasurer, Othello Clark Kagele, Secretary, Odessa Kevin Lyle, Past Chair, Othello A. , a big earthen dam sits at the south end Dale Pomeroy, At-Large, Warden of . At the north end of the lake, sits a small Stephen McFadden, At-Large, Othello dam called North Dam. The concept for this project started William Wagoner, At-Large, Quincy around 2010, and a license was put in with the Federal Energy Jake Wollman, Jr., At-Large, Warden Regulatory Commission. Over time, the North Dam Project was 2020 TRUSTEES renamed The Banks Lake Pump Storage Project. The concept Photo courtesy of Nicholls Kovich Alice Parker, Royal City includes a couple of large tunnels bored from Banks Lake Benjamin Leavitt, Warden down to Lake Roosevelt, just upstream of the Keyes Plant at Brad Peck, Pasco Dam. Water gets pumped into Banks Lake during ADAMS COUNTY BRIDGE Chip Dobson, Mattawa Kelly Cochrane, Kahlotus off-peak energy demand times such as after 10 p.m. The UPDATE Eli Stahl, Ritzville pumps get turned on until morning and the electricity demand Richard Burres, Kennewick comes back. Then, stored “energy” sits in Banks Lake until it is JJ Danz, Mesa needed and the water is run back downhill to Lake Roosevelt, The Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program is transferring deep Joe Gross, Marlin Photo courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation. Construction of 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 generating between 300-1000 MW of power and energy well irrigators from the depleting Odessa Aquifer to more reliable 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 during the peak times when demand is high. Columbia Basin Project surface water. The project includes expanding River in the United States. Mark Booker, Othello the width of canals to increase delivery capacity. When canal widths Alan Loebsack, Waterville Q. What is the status of the Banks Lake Pump Storage Michele Kiesz, Ritzville occurred during the past winter at three of the five plants. Development of new sites are also increase, the bridges that cross the canals need to be replaced or Project? Mike LaPlant, Ephrata Darvin’s responsibility. These include small plants and one large plant: Banks Lake Storage eliminated. 10 bridges have been identified for replacement by the Milt Miller, Moses Lake Project. engineering firm of Nicholls Kovich, eight of them in Adams County. Randy Gubler, Moses Lake A. Columbia Basin Hydropower has been actively pursuing this The county has secured a construction estimate of about $26 million. Reid Phillips, Ritzville project for about seven to eight years. They are working on a Roger Hartwig, Ritzville Q. How does the work of Columbia Basin Hydropower benefit CBP irrigation districts and lease from the Bureau of Reclamation and one license from Vicki Gordon, Pasco landowners? Final cost estimates rose to about twice as much per bridge as the Christina Wyatt, Ritzville FERC from the Bureau of Reclamation and licenses from FERC original projections. Next steps include securing funding, both through to allow for construction. federal and state sources. 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 The preliminary lease is on track to be issued in January of 2021. An engineering firm has been hired and has done 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 the technical work. This firm is working on the preliminary Kate Taylor, Logistics designs of penstocks, generators, transmission lines, and Sebastian Moraga, Communications A. One thing Darvin believes is really important and needs to be emphasized as priority No. civil structures. It’s a $1.4 billion pump storage project and 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 Columbia Basin Hydropower is six years out from completion if QUOTE OF THE QUARTER efficiently as it can, without interrupting the supply or flow of water to the farm. Julie Brezicha, Membership all goes well. Another priority of whose success Darvin is proud in light of COVID-19, involves enacting Funding for the project will determine its outcome. The other measures to keep employees safe. This includes working from home and allowing only one NURTURE YOUR MIND WITH GREAT part of the project involves securing power purchasers for the person out per shift or in a vehicle. The CBH has tried to keep up with sanitary and safety THOUGHTS, FOR YOU WILL NEVER GO CONNECT WITH US! power generated. regulations. This region needs electricity so it’s important that CBH personnel stay at work and ANY HIGHER THAN YOU THINK. @ColumbiaBasinDevelopmentLeague keep the generators running. #ColumbiaBasinProject - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister from 1874-1880 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.

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The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is the Basin Project irrigation districts, a signed delivery capacity, and, 2) construction of healthcare, education and science, and other The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers will hold its annual water source for thousands of farmers. Memorandum of Understanding outlined pump stations and pipelines on several sectors. ARRA looked for projects that were national conference Sept. 24 and 25 in Moses Lake. ASFMRA leaders asked the While waiting for continued development water availability for municipal and industrial lateral systems to deliver CBP water to farms “shovel ready”: those fully permitted and League to assist with setting up a day-long workshop focused on the CBP Speakers of the CBP, decades ago, the Department of permits, in-stream flows, and drought relief. now reliant on the aquifer. with federal approval including complying will include Mike Schwisow, Director Government Affairs for the Columbia Basin Ecology issued farmers permits to use ground The East Low Canal widening is almost with the National Environmental Policy Act. Development League; Tom Tebb, Director of the Office of Columbia River, Washington water to irrigate more than 100,000 acres. Its rapid decline made the Odessa aquifer complete, with Washington state investing State Department of Ecology; Craig Simpson, Secretary-Manager of the East Columbia The Odessa aquifer plummeted and now critical, so the three agencies agreed $105 million including all studies and Reclamation defines “shovel ready” as Basin Irrigation District; Marc Maynard, Ephrata Field Office Manager, Columbia Pacific threatens the supply for rural communities to create a program that addressed the consultation. What remains is the projects completing NEPA compliance, Northwest - Interior Region 9, Bureau of Reclamation; and Jed Crowther, Development including Lind, Odessa, Connell, Othello, economic and environmental catastrophe the construction of gravity-based and pump- design, rights-of-way access and other Coordinator, East Columbia Basin Irrigation District, who will also provide a tour of Warden, and Moses Lake. depleting aquifer would unleash. based delivery systems to replace 70,000 factors in state and federal law. This included work on the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program. acres with CBP irrigation water to farms. a detailed planning report based on the Conservation programs already cover more Principles, Requirements and Guidelines Details will be on ASFMRA’s website, www.asfmra.org. than 10,000 acres. for Water and Land Related Resources LATERAL: ACRES REPLACED: 2019 ESTIMATED COST: Implementation Studies (PR&G) along About $255,500,000 would continue with an environmental impact statement EL 11.8 3,000 $12,973,750 implementation of the Odessa Ground as well as an Endangered Species Act Sec. Water Replacement Program and change 7 consultation with U.S. Fish and Wildlife EL 22.1 19,000 $70,203,188 the irrigation source from failing wells on a Service and NOAA Fisheries. depleting aquifer to ample CBP supplies. It EL 40.2 11,000 $41,627,495 would also allow production of high-value When ARRA was enacted, the Odessa Ground EL 54.0 8,000 $28,104,321 crops to continue on 97,000 acres; and Water Replacement Program had begun but would conserve remaining ground water for had not gone far enough to take advantage of EL 73.3 18,000 $62,384,214 domestic, municipal and industrial uses in for the stimulus package. LEAGUE BOARD MEMBER rural communities. EL 79.2 10,000 $31,384,844 In April 2013, the OGWRP completed APPOINTED TO CRPAG The U.S. economy is at a standstill and sliding the work necessary to qualify as “shovel EL 86.4 5,000 $9,024,332 quickly into recession, or worse. Congress ready.” As such, the program offers a and the Trump Administration have pumped phenomenal opportunity for infrastructure The League’s Chairman and Lincoln County Commissioner, Mark Stedman, was TOTAL: 74,000 (approx.) $255,500,000 (approx.) trillions of dollars into the economy to help investment in an authorized project, to appointed to the Columbia River Policy Advisory Group, which advises the Office of until the COVID-19 pandemic has passed. address a nationally-recognized economic, Columbia River (a part of the Washington State’s Department of Ecology) on policy environmental and social crisis, while issues regarding the development of new water supply for Eastern Washington. The Infrastructure investment programs, as stimulating the state and federal economies group includes representatives from state, local, federal, and tribal governments, In 2001 Washington Gov. Gary Locke The project limited itself to an acre-for-acre part of a stimulus package, are designed to by rescuing a vibrant rural economy now irrigators, businesses, and environmental groups. launched the Columbia River Initiative to look replacement of ground water supplies from immediately affect the economy by putting dependent on a declining aquifer. It should for more water that would address needs of the Odessa aquifer with water from the as many people to work in as short a period be included in any infrastructure stimulus Eastern Washington. A study by the National Columbia Basin Project, with no new irrigated as possible. The most recent example program. Academy of Science found that additional land. was during the 2008 Great Recession. water wasn’t available for diversion from the Congress enacted the American Recovery Columbia River during some parts of July and The program, OGWRP, has two large and Reconstruction Act of 2009. ARRA was August. After 15 months of negotiations with construction elements: 1) expansion and a $787 billion economic stimulus package the Bureau of Reclamation and Columbia improvement of the East Low Canal to add funding investments in infrastructure, energy,

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In December 1980, crews completed the Second Bacon Siphon and In 2017, the League worked with a local film Project is the foundation for our livelihood, This film informs, engages, inspires, and is Tunnel, allowing the U.S. to supply First Phase Continuation water company, to produce “Waiting for Water”, our quality of life, a secure tomorrow. appropriate for viewers of all ages. To watch, to the PBS area without impacting fish and wildlife populations or a 10-minute documentary film about the visit www.cbdl.org, click on Support, then Project lands south of the Potholes Reservoir bank storage area. The Columbia Basin Project (Project). Keep the story alive by sharing the click on Documentary Film and then click on term First Phase Continuation water describes the additional water documentary on social media, at your local Watch the Documentary. The direct link is supply available as the result of the construction of the Second Bacon “Waiting for Water” follows a family of service clubs, in the classrooms, and with https://www.cbdl.org/support/film/watch- Siphon and Tunnel and other facilities. farmers in the Columbia Basin region- a your family and friends. By sharing this the-documentary. land of great potential, against a backdrop documentary, you are helping to inform, The Bureau of Reclamation has determined that users may withdraw of challenges - to share the story of the secure the future benefit of the Project for THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FILM up to 17,500 acre-feet or up to 5,000 acres of First Phase Continuation Columbia Basin Project. our region, state, and nation. Water annually from artificially stored groundwater in PBS. SPONSORS! The history of the CBP begins with an arid The Bureau of Reclamation issues water service contracts, effective desert and an opportunity to make history. for 20 years and subject to renewal for a similar period, for the use Dedicated visionaries persevere over 80 of First Phase Continuation Water in the PBS area. The contracts years, transforming the once desolate land specify quantities (not to exceed 3.5 acre-feet per acre per year), into a flourishing community. Family farms rates, terms, and conditions according to Reclamation Law and Bureau thrive. Vibrant bio-diverse wetland habitats Policy. are created and form part of the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. A hallmark If you are located within the PBS Area and want to sign up, send a power and irrigation system is born. Ample Photo of Potholes Reservoir by Joe Mabel, Wikipedia, license CC written request by email to [email protected] or by mail to Bureau of recreational opportunities draw three Reclamation, Attn: Joslin Kier, 32 C Street NW, Ephrata, WA 98823. million visitors to fish, hunt, camp, swim, Got water? We do. The Bureau of Reclamation still has water Please include the number of acres in question, what purpose the and explore its land and waters each year. available in our Potholes Bank Storage Additional Artificially Stored water will serve, the legal description and parcel number for your The once arid desert now generates over Groundwater Program (PBS). If you are in the Mae Valley/South property, and your contact information. $5 billion of cumulative economic activity Frontage Road area, you may be eligible for a PBS groundwater every year. But the future of the Project is in service contract. jeopardy.

On Jan. 8, 1975, the Department of Ecology established the Quincy THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION STILL HAS The Project is not fully developed, and Basin Subarea, comprised of commingled public groundwater and WATER AVAILABLE IN OUR POTHOLES BANK it is aging. And, in the process of phased artificially stored groundwater (ASGW). development, a declining aquifer presented STORAGE ADDITIONAL ARTIFICIALLY STORED yet another threat to the foundation upon In general, both types of groundwaters have been fully appropriated GROUNDWATER PROGRAM (PBS). IF YOU which much of central-eastern Washington and no water remains available for withdrawal under the surface- ARE IN THE MAE VALLEY/SOUTH FRONTAGE has been built. and-groundwater codes of the State of Washington. Reclamation ROAD AREA, YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A PBS developed the Quincy Basin ASGW management program with the If you live, work, or play in Washington, the Department of Ecology to appropriate its groundwater. As of today, GROUNDWATER SERVICE CONTRACT. Columbia Basin Project impacts you. It is our Quincy Basin ASGW is fully appropriated and has a long waiting list. shared responsibility to ensure that we can continue to do so, that future generations can do so. Shared responsibility begins with increased awareness and understanding. The

VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER l 6 7 l VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER THREE NEW TRUSTEES APPOINTED TO LEAGUE BOARD TRANSFERRING WATER RIGHTS As part of the Odessa Ground Water Replacement Program In January, League members voted to elect Christina Wyatt and Besides farming, Cochrane works as an Optometric Physician with (OGWRP) Kelly Cochrane to join the CBDL Board of Trustees. Then in April, JC an office in Kahlotus. His community activities include volunteering Baldwin stepped down from her position, and the board appointed to provide vision care via medical missions to various Third-World The Odessa Subarea Special Study’s (OSSS) By transferring water rights to lands in Alan Loebsack. countries, serving as a Franklin County volunteer fireman, serving main intent is to maximize the replacement the OSSS closer to the East Low Canal, the as Chairman of the Kahlotus School Board, and serving as an active of groundwater supplies with Columbia Basin OGWRP will: member of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers. Project (CBP) surface water supplies. Christina Wyatt of Big Bend Electric 1. Maintain consistency with previously Cooperative has more than 14 years With that in mind, East Columbia Basin established environmental review; of utility experience including previous Alan Loebsack of Waterville is Irrigation District (ECBID) recognized the 2. Preserve continuity and proper roles as manager of engineering and a Chelan-Douglas Regional Port need to have replacement lands as close implementation of the OGWRP program; distribution engineer. Her duties Authority Commissioner since to the East Low Canal as possible to keep 3. Use valid water rights for replacement include coordinating long term power 2016 and Port of Douglas County development costs low. Allowing transfers purposes to benefit the declining aquifer; supply issues with Bonneville Power Commissioner since 1986. He of water rights from anywhere in the Odessa 4. Add certainty for transfer of water rights Administration and other power graduated from Waterville High Subarea to lands in the OSSS boundary will to move and serve eligible project lands; providers, and monitoring proposed School, and in 1976 he graduated allow the infill in areas cheaper than the and energy legislation according to its from Eastern Washington University existing location of water rights. 5. Maximize economical groundwater potential to impact the cooperative. with a Bachelor of Arts degree in replacement deliveries. Wyatt’s duties include coordinating Business Administration, and a minor Due to construction and cost constraints, the electrical and power supply needs in Economics. After graduating, he one needs to identify and transfer water In summary, this issue requires an of the East Columbia Basin District’s worked as a fisherman in the king rights during the design period. By allowing adjustment, so it may preserve the aquifer Odessa Ground Water Replacement crab industry and began farming transfers now, ECBID will help reach the and optimize water delivery. Program with the needs of other agencies. Prior to joining BBEC, full-time on his wheat farm in 1978 maximum number of acres receiving water she worked as a consultant to several Northwest utilities. She after being airlifted off his boat in the Bering Sea for an emergency using economical pump systems. Land owners wishing to transfer their water is a Northwest native and has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical appendectomy. The Loebsack farm, northeast of Waterville, has rights should contact Kevin Brown with the Engineering from Gonzaga University. remained in the family for four generations and produces wheat, The transfer of water rights seeks to serve Department of Ecology in the Spokane office. canola, dry peas, and barley. lands in the “Odessa Subarea Special Study Call (509) 329-3422 or email kevin.brown@ Area” (which focused on lands closer to ecy.wa.gov. Kelly Cochrane of Kahlotus is a fourth- Alan and his wife, Marjorie, have five children and served as foster the East Low Canal, serviceable by the CBP, generation dryland wheat farmer in parents for 18 years while their children grew up. The Loebsack family for the nearest irrigation replacement). northern Franklin County. A significant remains involved with the Badger Mountain Ski Area, Waterville The existing water rights within the entire amount of his farm ground lies within Young Life Club, and Waterville High School. “Odessa Groundwater Management Subarea” the unfinished Columbia Basin Project. can now be utilized to benefit groundwater He farms with his wife Becky, brothers replacement lands of the OSSS Area and Brian, Casey, and his son Ben, part of a Welcome, Christina, Kelly, and Alan! OGWRP. fifth generation. He has caught himself echoing the same “someday the water will come” proclamation that his grandfather espoused more than 50 years ago regarding completion of the CBP.

VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER l 8 9 l VOICE OF THE PROJECT NEWSLETTER SAVE THE DATE! MYTRI 2030 AG COUNCIL UPDATE By Gary Ballew, myTRI Agriculture Council Vice Chair COLUMBIA BASIN DEVELOPMENT We are still planning for in-person attendance. Stay tuned to LEAGUE 56TH CONFERENCE & our website and social media pages for updates on agenda topics, speakers and guests. By the time the Ag Council held its first meeting of the year at the end of March, we were just ANNUAL MEETING starting to see the enormity of what lay ahead. As many of the members of the committee are Learn more at: www.cbdl.org in essential industries, and were in the midst of identifying completely new ways to keep food Thursday, November 5, 2020 on the shelves of America’s grocery stores, the group decided to pause our myTRI 2030 efforts and meet the COVID-19 challenge at hand.

As we now roll through the mid-year, the group looks to come together (socially distanced and virtual of course) to jumpstart our myTRI 2030 efforts. The challenge is much greater now, as we look to rebuild a growing, processing and logistics system stressed by the past two months. We believe that myTRI 2030 will provide the roadmap for recovery and resiliency, and that as we move forward, we will identify opportunities to increase prosperity across the Tri-Cities.

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Earlier this year, the myTRI 2030 Agricultural expert and leader”, and nominated her for a Inclusion, Energy, Education, and Agriculture. Council invited the League to become position on the Agriculture Council. a member. MyTRI 2030 is a Tri-Cities, Late last summer, six all-day workshops community-based, Regional Vision Project During the last year, more than 5,000 Tri- took place, and people identified the top that seeks to provide a unified strategy and a Citians came together wanting to create a 10 high-level strategies and ideas for each shared vision for the future. shared vision for the region. The process area. These ideas will inform the decisions was exhaustive, comprehensive, inclusive of future Opportunity Area Councils. These The Regional Affairs Committee (RAC) of and designed to ensure success. The group is councils, comprised of passionate experts the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce intentionally populated with specific sectors and leaders, will identify actions and teams provides staffing and leadership for the including: producers, processors, ports, ag that will bring myTRI 2030 to fruition. The myTRI 2030 Regional Vision Project. Chris groups, economic development groups, rail, agriculture summary appears on pages 4 and Rivard (Moss Adams, retired) serves as two- and four-year education institutions. 5. Note that finishing the Columbia Basin Regional Affairs Council liaison in the Project appears as the idea for the strategy Agriculture Opportunity Area. Part of See more here: www.myTRI2030.com. to “ensure a thriving future for growers”. This the responsibility of the liaison includes is a key reason why myTRI 2030 invited the identifying and nominating potential The insights gathered from the people, League to participate. members of the Agriculture Council. He combined with comprehensive research, identified Vicky Scharlau (as Executive resulted in six unique opportunity areas that Director of the League) as a “passionate the region must pursue: Prosperity, Life,

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