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October 27, 2017
Washington to revive
war on gypsy moths
WSDA seeks
funding to spray
1,300 acres
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Dan Wheat/Capital Press File
Andrea Mora and Rosa Vega place Red Delicious apples
on trays for packing at Custom Starr Ranch Growers in
Wenatchee, Wash., on March 10. Among the food safety issues
the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing is whether a
packing house is technically a farm or a processor. Different
rules apply to each type of facility.
Two European gypsy moths found in early August in Pierce County, Wash., sit on the thumbs of a Wash-
ington State Department of Agriculture worker. The department tentatively plans to spray a total of 1,300
acres in Pierce and Kitsap counties next spring to eradicate an outbreak of the leaf-eating pest.
to WSDA. The moths spread
by laying egg masses on out-
door belongings transported
across the country. WSDA has
sprayed for gypsy moths nu-
merous times since 1979, but
did not this year.
The Oregon Department
of Agriculture also did not
spray this year and won’t next
spring, department spokes-
man Bruce Pokarney said
Monday.
The department trapped 10
European gypsy moths this
year, including five in Benton
County, in or near Corvallis.
“We’ll have to keep an eye
on that next year,” he said.
“We’ll put more traps out.”
The department also
trapped two gypsy moths
south of Eugene and three at
scattered sites in Portland.
None of the three were caught
in the 8,800 acres in Portland
the department sprayed in
2016. “That’s the best news of
all,” Pokarney said.
The gypsy moth trapping
season was more lively in
Washington. In a first for
Washington, WSDA found
about 100 gypsy moths
laying eggs in a Puyallup
neighborhood. Female gypsy
moths can’t fly, so only male
gypsy moths are snared in the
traps.
WSDA said the discovery
likely curbed a serious out-
break. Still, the department
has put in a budget request
to the governor’s office for
$230,000 to spray and to put
out traps to see whether the
operation worked. The de-
partment also hopes to receive
$715,000 from the USDA.
WSDA trapped 87 gypsy
moths in Pierce County and
17 in Kitsap County. Gypsy
moths also were caught in
Clark, King, Island and What-
com counties.
Neither Washington nor
Oregon trapped an Asian
gypsy moth this year. Female
Asian gypsy moths fly and are
considered a greater danger to
spread than European gypsy
moths.
Washington would spray
Bacillus thuringiensis kusta-
ki, a biological pesticide ap-
proved for organic use.
Suspension of Winter Water Savings opens door to recharge
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho
— The U.S. Bureau of Rec-
lamation has waived its usual
requirement that Palisades Res-
ervoir storage holders shut off
their canals throughout winter,
which should open new aquifer
recharge opportunities for the
state.
Under the agency’s Win-
ter Water Savings Program,
space-holders are obligated to
close their canals for 150 con-
secutive days following the
irrigation season, allowing the
reservoir to fill.
However, Upper Snake
Reservoirs are entering this
winter with far more storage
than necessary, following an
exceptionally wet water year.
Water District 1 officials re-
cently calculated that flows at
the Heise gage, located above
the Snake River’s first diver-
sion, were the second highest
in recorded history — second
only to 1997 — during the wa-
ter year that ended Sept. 30.
The district also estimated
its reservoirs have 1 million
acre-feet of available space,
compared to 1.7 million acre-
feet of inflows form the poorest
refill on record.
The Bureau will suspend
the Winter Water Savings re-
quirement for at least three
months. Corey Loveland, an
agency official, said usual
winter releases from Palisades
range from 900 to 1,100 cubic
feet per second. Releases have
already been heightened from
Palisades, and Loveland ex-
pects the Bureau to keep them
around 3,000 cfs throughout
winter.
“We’ll definitely have to
move a large amount of water
to make room for flood-con-
trol space,” Loveland said.
“Water will be available to
use for recharge (in the Up-
per Snake Valley) this fall and
throughout winter.”
The state has a special wa-
ter right that remains in prior-
ity throughout winter in the
Lower Snake — downstream
of Minidoka Dam — for aqui-
fer recharge, which involves
paying canal companies to
run water through their un-
lined systems or dump it into
adjacent spill basins so that it
may seep into the aquifer and
restore declining groundwater
levels.
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Wes Hipke, who coordi-
nates the Idaho Department
of Water Resources recharge
program, has already started
recharging 61,000 acre-feet
of storage water provided by
the Surface Water Coalition.
The coalition received the
water from junior groundwa-
ter users and food processing
companies as mitigation for
a call, but it won’t be needed
this season. The Bureau’s an-
nouncement will enable some
canal companies to continue
recharging the storage water
for the state into November,
when they’d normally be re-
stricted by Winter Water Sav-
ings.
Hipke said he’s also been
making calls to find more
recharge partners, hoping to
expedite recharging of the
storage water to free capacity
for excess Palisades releas-
es. Factoring in water that
won’t be needed because a
power turbine isn’t in ser-
vice at Minidoka Dam, Hipke
said the Bureau estimates he
should have at least 800 cfs
of flood releases available for
Upper Valley recharge this
fall and winter, though it re-
mains to be seen if he’ll find
the capacity to put that much
water to good use.
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
YAKIMA, Wash. —
Northwest growers should
not make any changes to
their water quality plans
and testing while the Trump
administration reviews agri-
cultural water rules adopted
by the Obama administra-
tion, says Kate Woods, vice
president of the Northwest
Horticultural Council in Ya-
kima.
The Food and Drug Ad-
ministration is also trying
to clarify whether packing
houses are farms or proces-
sors, Woods said.
The FDA announced
Sept. 12 a 60-day review of
a proposed rule to extend
deadlines for compliance
with agricultural water re-
quirements of the Produce
Safety Rule of the Food
Safety Modernization Act
by two to four years while
the requirements are re-
viewed. The Produce Safety
Rule was announced by the
Obama administration on
Nov. 27, 2015.
“The FDA received a lot
of feedback from growers,
including from the North-
west, that the rule was pretty
impractical,” Woods said.
The rule requires in-
creased testing of irrigation
water and a particular sam-
pling method few laborato-
ries were equipped to han-
dle, Woods said.
The FDA is proposing
to review methodology,
amount and standards for
sampling, she said. The
agency has not said how
long its review will take
and what changes might be
forthcoming, she said.
“We certainly view cur-
rent requirements in the
Produce Safety Rule as un-
necessarily burdensome and
onerous. We think the num-
ber of samples and sample
requirements could certainly
be made more flexible and
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE STATE OF OREGON
COUNTY OF MARION
Probate Department
IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF
Katina Elizabeth
Hatzantonis, Deceased
No. 17PB06169
NOTICE TO
INTERESTED PERSONS
DATED and first published
this 6th day of October, 2017.
Personal Representative:
ROCCO FAREN
Attorney:
L. E. ASHCROFT
510 SW Fiftth Ave, 6th Flr
Portland, OR 97204
practical,” Woods said.
Whether irrigation wa-
ter can be tested at a single
point in a canal or at multi-
ple diversion points will be
reviewed, as will a require-
ment that growers establish
a microbial water quality
profile by conducting 20
tests on each surface wa-
ter source over two to four
years, she said.
NHC and other indus-
try organizations across the
country have been meeting
with FDA Deputy Commis-
sioner Stephen Ostroff quar-
terly regarding the water
rule and will attend an FDA
agricultural water summit
early next year, Woods said.
A Jan. 26, 2018, com-
pliance date for the rest of
the Produce Safety Rule
remains and growers need
to have at least one person
trained on safety curriculum
by then, she said. Growers
already adhere to most of
the requirements as part of
private food safety audits,
she said.
Also at issue is whether
packing houses that basi-
cally do nothing more than
clean, grade, sort and pack
produce are considered a
farm or a processor, Woods
said.
“We think if you have a
whole apple coming in and a
whole apple going out, you
should be considered a farm,
not a processor,” she said.
Farms fall under the
Produce Safety Rule. Pro-
cessors are under the Pre-
ventive Controls for Human
Food rule, which requires
more risk analyses and plan-
ning, Woods said.
The latter rule defines
farms partly by ownership
structure. NHC believes
whether a packing house is
a farm or processor should
be “based on activities per-
formed, not extraneous is-
sues like ownership struc-
ture that have nothing to do
with risk,” she said.
“FDA told us in Septem-
ber that they are looking to
review the farm definition,
think they have a good solu-
tion and are aware it needs
to be fixed before the Jan. 26
compliance date,” she said.
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By JOHN O’CONNELL
Capital Press
Growers hope
administration
changes water rule
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The Washington State De-
partment of Agriculture tenta-
tively plans to aerial spray an
insecticide over two westside
counties next spring to kill
gypsy moth larvae, respond-
ing to the largest outbreak of
the leaf-eating pest in more
than 20 years.
WSDA has trapped 117
European gypsy moths since
July, the most since 1995.
Most of the catches were in
the neighboring cities of Puy-
allup and Graham in Pierce
County and Bremerton and
Silverdale in Kitsap County.
The department has not
proposed a detailed plan, but
has started to line up state
and federal funding to spray
a total of approximately 1,300
acres.
Washington and other
Western states take a hard
line against gypsy moths.
The moths are entrenched in
19 Eastern states and reputed
by federal and state agricul-
tural officials to be the most
destructive forest insect ever
introduced in North America.
If established in Washing-
ton, gypsy moths would be
especially threatening to the
timber, nursery and Christ-
mas tree industries, according