Last month, the Source Weekly published a story illustrating community concerns about the effects of irrigation improvements on groundwater levels and private wells. Piping canals has been a controversial topic in Central Oregon over the past several years. For many decades, these canals have been part of the landscape, winding their way through our dry […]
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High and Dry
Outdated water management policies leave thousands of fish dead on Upper Deschutes
Thousands of fish now lie dead on the banks of the Upper Deschutes, stranded after the Oregon Water Resources Department reverted to extremely low winter flow rates last week. Perhaps worse, no laws were broken—current water management policies allow for such low flows, which in this case resulted in the death of approximately 3,000 brown […]