A pair of eastern Washington irrigation districts are pursuing a plan
that would, at an estimated cost of $52 million, equip them to pull water
from the Columbia River and, in exchange, leave water in the Yakima River
to enhance salmon and steelhead habitat and passage.
The Kennewick Irrigation District is proposing that an authorized irrigation
pump electrification project, also designed to cut down on water diversions
from the lower Yakima, be stalled. The district instead would like …
