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		<title>Wyden bill to up water quality for Hermiston, Umatilla River</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 4, Senator Ron Wyden made the following statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate on legislation he is introducing to authorize the City of Hermiston to participate in a water reclamation program. Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to provide more clean water for the city of Hermiston, for irrigators in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=989&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hermiston waste treatment plant now 30 years old</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been upgraded many times of over the years to stay in compliance with environmental requirements most related to the disposal of treated effluent onto pastureland as irrigation water and into the Umatilla River. The Hermiston Waste Water plant treats a million gallons of effluent per day. The City will install a membrane barrier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=991&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 summer steelhead run third best in 70 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Columbia River basin’s 2009 “upriver” summer steelhead run is muscling its way toward elite status as the count of the silvery spawners climbing Bonneville Dam’s fish ladders approaches 400,000. Only two yearly summer steelhead counts at the dam have surpassed 400,000 – the record total of 630,200 in 2001 and a follow-up run of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=993&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DOE notifies Yakima water rights defendants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington’s Department of Ecology has published legal ads today in three central Washington newspapers notifying 6,630 lawsuit defendants of a court hearing on water right claims in the Yakima River Basin adjudication. The legal notification ads are required by law. The ads are one of the final stages of the adjudication of surface water rights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quagga mussels threat called &#8216;biological wildfire&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Northwest Power and Conservation Council was told last week that it needs to get more involved itself, and use its influence to stir up others, if the Columbia River basin is to dodge the looming threat of invasive quagga mussels. Idaho state Rep. Eric Anderson admits to borrowing a phrase when he said a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=1002&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Largest Snake River fall chinook run in four decades predicted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fishery managers predict this year will see the largest Snake River fall chinook salmon run in four decades with as many as 28,000 adults expected to cross Lower Granite Dam on their way back to Idaho. Most of them are headed for the Snake River above the mouth of the Clearwater River, and Idaho Fish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=995&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NW wind power reaches new milestone on BPA system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind has arrived. In early August, for the first time, the Bonneville Power Administration’s transmission grid reached a milestone, carrying more than 2,000 megawatts of wind power for more than an hour. On Aug. 6, after flirting with the 2,000-megawatt threshold for weeks, total wind generation on BPA’s system blew right past that level at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=997&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill to study impacts of lower Snake dam removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jim McDermott, D-WA, and Rep. Tom Petri, R-WI, have introduced the “Salmon Solutions and Planning Act.” H.R. 3503 calls for studies of the issues affecting salmon recovery efforts, including scientific analysis of the impact of the removal of the four Lower Snake River dams, energy replacement alternatives should the four dams be removed, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing rising water temps in lower Snake River</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The settling in of this summer’s heat has forced salmon and hydro system managers to sprint through the steps of their plan for holding down water temperatures in the lower Snake River for migrating salmon and steelhead. At a meeting July 15 of the Technical Management Team (TMT), it was decided water temperatures rising to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=961&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former representative Chuck Norris, 84, dies July 20 in FL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Chuck Norris served five terms in the Oregon house, between 1987 and 1997, representing District 57, which included Umatilla and Morrow counties. During his career in the legislature, Norris served on a several committees concerned with natural resources, and chaired House Water Policy in 1991, 1993 and 1995. He was born in Pasadena, California, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oregonwater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2141157&amp;post=945&amp;subd=oregonwater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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