Bad Decade at Black Rock

Just The Way It Happened

Outline of Talk

History of Storage Study

Storage Study History (cont)

Black Rock Before the Storage Study

Why Storage?

Water Management in the Yakima River Basin

PowerPoint Presentation

Where Storage Headwaters v. Lower Basin v. Columbia River Water

Bumping Gets Bumped

YN Staff Scoping Comments It’s Not Just About Storage

Fish Passage at Reclamation Storage Reservoirs

Cle Elum River Above Dam

We can share what we got of yours, cuz we done shared all of mine. Grateful Dead - 1972

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Reclamation EIS limited analysis to two main alternatives (Black Rock and Wymer)

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No Action Alternative

DEIS

The Seventy Percent Solution

For a Few Dollars More: Black Rock Geology

Pumping Costs: The Gift that Keeps on Taking

A Fishful of Dollars

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YN on DEIS It’s Not Just About Storage

So why aren’t we pouring concrete? One explanation from YHR (4-27-08)

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WA DOE is Finishing Supplemental EIS on alternative proposal

Back to the Future The Bambrick YRBWEP Work Group