History of Storage Study

• US Congress and Washington State funded Yakima Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study

• • In 2003 Congress appropriated funding for Reclamation to study increasing water storage in the Yakima Basin with emphasis on Black Rock Reservoir.
  • YN wrote Congress in support of the study
  • State also appropriated funds (without “emphasis on Black Rock”)
  • Purposes to improve fishery, irrigation supply, municipal supply