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Conservancy board warns Pasco transfers and Ecology's 50814 handling could reshape local water rights
Summary
Franklin County Water Conservancy Board members told commissioners March 12 that recent municipal water-right transfers to Pasco, rising denials from the Department of Ecology and planned changes to Columbia River operations could have large economic effects on local irrigators and county water users.
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Wash.
At a March 12 workshop the Franklin County Water Conservancy Board and invited guests briefed the county commissioners on a suite of water-right and river-operation issues they said could affect farms, municipalities and county planning.
Mark Nielsen, treasurer of the Franklin County Water Conservancy Board, and Lynn Hall, the board chair, reviewed recent transfers of irrigation water to municipal use, noting that Pasco submitted dozens of applications in recent years and that the transfers have economic consequences both where water is used and where it is reallocated. Dr. Daryl Olsen, chair of the Benton County Water Conservancy Board, joined the briefing and described parallel regional issues.
Nielsen said the…
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