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Deadline to Support for Flow Protections for North Willamette is Today at 5 p.m.

Sept. 26, 2024 We need your help TODAY to support new legal protections for instream flows for fish in Oregon’s beloved Willamette River system! Comments are due today at 5 p.m., so please TAKE ACTION NOW. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has applied for 269 new instream water rights, including 102 in the […]

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Our Victories

Our Victories Annual Accomplishments Reports 2024 Groundwater Allocation Success; Pomeroy Dam Removal; Williams-Whalen Dam Removal; Winchester Dam Campaign; Support for New Willamette Instream Water Rights; Ongoing Collaborative Efforts Learn More 2023 Defense of Drift Creek; Lovelace Dam Removal; Takelma Dam Removal; Winchester Dam Campaign; Groundwater Allocation Rules; Legislative Successes; Lake Abert; Crooked River; Factory Farms

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2015 Legislative Roundup

2015 Legislative Roundup With the help of WaterWatch members, the 2015 legislative session ended with critical agency funding intact, the defeat of a slew of bad water bills, and the elevation of a number of important policy issues. We could not have done it without you! Your voices were critical to our success this year.

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Nine-month construction delay on West Linn water treatment plant angers neighbors, surprises project managers

Nine-month construction delay on West Linn water treatment plant angers neighbors, surprises project managers by Michael Bamesberger The Oregonian/OregonLive February 12, 2015 The Lake Oswego-Tigard Water Partnership, which is about half-way completed, will deliver Clackamas River water to both communities next year. Last month, neighbors in West Linn’s Robinwood neighborhood were surprised to learn construction

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PGE nears deal on dams

PGE nears deal on dams By Jim Kadera Oregonian November 28, 2005   ESTACADA –Under an agreement nearing completion after years of study and negotiation, Oregon’s largest utility would spend an estimated $200 million on environmental improvements in exchange for a 45-year relicensing of four dams on the Clackamas River. The spending would rival amounts

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Currents

CURRENTS Currents (June 20, 2025) Final push to get SB 1153 over the finish line, state water programs evade major cuts, the Trump administration abandons the landmark 2023 Columbia River Deal, exploring the Klamath River by kayak, summer block party next Saturday in Portland, an Oakshire Inspires event July 15th, and we’re sharing an aquatic

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The Statesman Journal: January 2020: “Proposal to Demolish Crumbling Scotts Mills Dam Gaining Momentum”

by Bill Poehler, Statesman Journal | January 2020 | The Statesman Journal The first time Anna Rankin went to the Scotts Mills Dam, she noticed crosses and flowers on the banks below the dam. When Rankin, the executive director of the Pudding River Watershed Council, asked about the markers, she learned there had been a

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The Statesman Journal: December 2019: “Farmers Band Together to Stop Dam from Being Built on Drift Creek”

by Bill Poehler, Statesman Journal | December 2019 | The Statesman Journal Joel Rue welcomed a group of fellow farmers and friends into his home in Victor Point, located in a canyon between Silverton and Silver Falls State Park, in 2005. Over the next few hours, the farmers from around Mt. Angel explained how for

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