Irrigators make progress on private system
CBH Columbia Basin Herald Local News
MOSES LAKE — The Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association is hoping to start construction on their privately funded irrigation system this summer.
The group wants to construct a system of pressurized pipes to bring surface water from the East Low Canal to parcels of land north and south of Interstate 90 that are currently using Odessa subarea groundwater.
They are mostly ready to begin the first portion of the project, which will bring Columbia River water from the canal to a little over 14,000 acres of land, Darryll Olsen, of the irrigation association, said Friday.
Landowners and their lenders committed the $48 million needed to move forward with the project. There is also a new secondary use permit issued by the state Department of Ecology to the Bureau of Reclamation to move Columbia River water to more acres in the Columbia Basin Project.
Olsen said the association is in the process of negotiating a new water service contract for landowners, the last thing they have to do before construction on the irrigation system can start.
For more on this story, read Monday's Columbia Basin Herald
—Staff report
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