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Coastal and small-city officials urge $5 million boost for drinking-water source protection fund
Summary
Officials from Reedsport, Port Orford, Rockaway Beach and Depoe Bay and advocates urged the committee to appropriate $5 million to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection Fund to finance forest-land acquisition, easements and other protections for small community drinking-water sources.
Sustainable Northwest and local coastal officials told the House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water that additional state funding is needed to protect small-community drinking-water sources by enabling land acquisition or conservation easements in sensitive watersheds.
Daniel Whalen, government affairs director for Sustainable Northwest, testified in support of House Bill 3341, which would appropriate $5,000,000 to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s Community Drinking Water Enhancement and Protection Fund. Whalen said demand for funding from small water providers exceeded the initial allocation created in 2023: “Demand for the original funding allocation of $5,000,000 being…
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