The Idaho Department of Water Resources defended its method of measuring
water withdrawals, while assuring the region that the 427,000-acre feet
of flow augmentation is reaching lower Snake River dams.
Karl Dreher, director of Idahos Water Resources, defended his departments
water withdrawal measurement practices on the Payette River at an Implementation
Team meeting last week. He specifically attended the meeting to challenge
the findings of a 1999 study by Roy Koch, professor of …
