13. UMATILLA BASIN PROJECT NEARS COMPLETION

Construction of a nine-year, $56-million federal water-exchange project
should be completed this month, about the same time that an estimated 3,000
to 5,000 adult fall chinook and coho salmon and summer steelhead begin
their return to the Umatilla River.
The Umatilla Basin Project, prompted when the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation claimed their reserved water rights, delivers
Columbia River water to three irrigation districts, which, in exchange,
leave water in …

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