Public hearings this week on Odessa Sub area draft EIS
Washington Ag Today November 15, 2010 There will be two opportunities this week to provide oral testimony on the Odessa Sub area Special Study Draft Environmental Impact Statement. The study looks at the feasibility and environmental consequences of providing Columbia Basin Project surface water to some deep well irrigators within the project area whose wells are drying up.
The hearings this week will run from three to seven p.m. and will be held November 17th at the Coulee Dam Town Hall and November 18th in Moses Lake at the ATEC Building at Big Bend Community College.
Chuck Carnohan of the Bureau of Reclamation explains what happens after the public input process is complete.
Carnohan: “We will of course review all those comments and take into consideration all the recommendations and ideas and alternatives and revise our environmental document to address these things, and possibly do additional analysis or look at additional alternatives and come up with a preferred alternative in the final environmental impact statement and we are looking to have that out sometime in the summer of 2011.”
The EIS includes four alternatives for partial replacement of well water and four alternatives to full-replacement.
Again, the public review and input process will run until December 31st of this year.
I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.
?
