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Water
Dry March hampers Oregon water outlook
Southern basins
feeling impact of
drought
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
The 2021 irrigation sea-
son is shaping up to be a tale
of two Oregons.
River basins in the north-
ern part of the state are in
comparatively good shape,
with snowpack at or above
normal from Mount Hood
to the Wallowa Mountains,
according to the latest out-
look from the USDA Natu-
ral Resources Conservation
Service.
Southern Oregon, how-
ever, is another story.
Exceptionally dry weather
has pushed the region deeper
into drought, threatening
water supplies for both farms
and fish. Local irrigation dis-
tricts, facing all-but-certain
shortages, are doing what
they can to stretch what lit-
tle water they have stored in
lakes and reservoirs.
“It is looking to be a
pretty dire year, particularly
in Southern and Central Ore-
gon,” said April Snell, exec-
utive director of the Oregon
Water Resources Congress.
“It doesn’t look like we’re
getting much moisture in
those areas where we need
it.”
Scott Oviatt, snow sur-
vey supervisor for the NRCS
in Portland, said March was
particularly dry. Total pre-
cipitation statewide fell from
99% to 90% of average for
the water year dating back to
Oct. 1.
“The month itself was
below normal and below
average in all cases, just due
to the lack of storm impacts,”
Oviatt said.
Though snowpack across
the state has held steady at
111% of average, measure-
ments show a clear disparity
from north to south.
On the north side, the
Hood, Sandy and Lower
Deschutes basins have 135%
of their average snow-wa-
ter equivalent — the amount
of water that is contained in
snow. The Umatilla, Walla
Walla and Willow basins
are also well above normal
at 132%, and the Grande
Ronde, Burnt, Powder and
Imnaha basins are at 120%.
The Willamette Basin,
home to the majority of Ore-
gon’s high-value and spe-
cialty crops, is also faring
well at 121% of the average
snowpack.
Meanwhile, the Rogue
and Umpqua basins in south-
west Oregon are at 85%
snowpack, the Klamath
Basin is at 77%, the Owyhee
Basin is at 78% and the Lake
County and Goose Lake
basins are at 67%.
Oregon’s snowpack typ-
ically peaks around mid-
March, Oviatt said. That
means time is running out
to make up any significant
ground.
“We’re past that now,”
Oviatt said. “Those oppor-
tunities have gone by the
wayside.”
Many reservoirs in South-
ern Oregon are sitting well
below 50% full. Streamflows
are also below 50% in some
areas, ahead of the hot sum-
mer months.
Gov.
Kate
Brown
has already declared a
drought
emergency
in
Klamath County. Jack-
son, Lake and Baker coun-
ties have requested drought
declarations.
Irrigators in the Klam-
ath Project, which serves
approximately 230,000 acres
of farmland in Southern Ore-
gon and Northern California,
anticipate their water allo-
cation will be 130,000 acre-
feet, less than one-third of
historical demand.
Inflows into Upper Klam-
ath Lake, which feeds the
Klamath Project, were just
74% of normal since Oct. 1,
making it the worst year on
record since 1981.
Jim Pendleton, manager
of the Talent Irrigation Dis-
trict in the Rogue Basin, said
they are facing a similarly
critical situation.
Normally, the district
stores 80,000-85,000 acre-
feet of water in three reser-
voirs — Hyatt Lake, Howard
Prairie Lake and Emigrant
Lake. This year, the three res-
ervoirs combined have just
17,000 acre-feet of water,
their lowest totals since 1961.
“Just running the num-
bers, we may not even start
the system until the first of
June,” Pendleton said. “Even
at that, I think we’ll be lucky
to make it to mid-August.”
Looking east to the
Owyhee Basin, Jay Cham-
berlin, manager of the
Owyhee Irrigation Dis-
trict, said board members
approved a reduced water
allocation of 3 acre-feet
per acre. Growers typically
receive 4 acre-feet per acre
during a full water year.
Owyhee Reservoir is cur-
rently 60% full, and Cham-
berlin said they will likely
draw the reservoir down sig-
nificantly in 2021.
“We’re going to empty the
tank,” he said. “That really
sets us up for a bad situation
next year. We won’t carry
over any storage if we pull it
all down to cover this year’s
demand.”
The district started releas-
ing water on April 6, which
is several days early. Cham-
berlin said growers needed
moisture on the ground to
allow their onion and sugar
beet crops to break through
the dry, crusty soil surface.
In addition, Chamberlin
said the district will immedi-
ately begin pumping supple-
mental water from the Dun-
away Pumping Station along
the Snake River.
Idaho water
supply low in spots
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
Most Idaho reservoirs
likely will fill despite a
mostly dry end to winter,
USDA Natural Resources
Conservation
Service
hydrologists say.
But low snowpack and
expected runoff in the
Wood River and Lost River
basins, in the east-central
mountains, likely mean
water-supply concerns for
irrigators, dryland grazing
operations and people who
rely on natural streamflow,
the NRCS Water Supply
Outlook Report said.
Agricultural
water
shortages in these basins
this summer are likely. The
amount of water stored in
Magic Reservoir is well
below normal.
NRCS said it expects
sufficient reservoir sup-
ply for irrigators across all
Snake River basins except
Oakley and Salmon Falls,
where agricultural water
shortages are predicted.
Drought conditions likely
will persist during spring in
central and southern Idaho.
Dry soils around Idaho
have concerned water
managers almost since the
snow-accumulation sea-
son began Oct. 1. Runoff
saturates soil on its way to
reservoirs. Unusually dry
ground reduces inflow.
“Across much of the
state, folks can attest that
soil moisture is a little shy
of adequate, with the fore-
cast looking to get drier,”
State Soil Scientist Shawn
Nield of NRCS Idaho told
Capital Press. “Should that
trend continue, the soil pro-
file will take extra water in
the early season.”
He said ground with
a standing cover crop or
good residual cover over
winter tends to offer bet-
ter moisture conditions
than bare ground by better
trapping snow, preventing
pore packing and plugging
during rains, encouraging
infiltration and reducing
evaporation.
Washington snowpack deepest in nearly a decade
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specialist Scott Pattee said
Thursday. “Once we got
through January and into
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NORTH AMERICAN BREWERIES INC
BBL FLEET CO - LESSOR
Washington are typically
cold and wet. The climate
phenomenon, in which cool
ocean temperatures trigger
changes in the atmosphere,
typically brings warm and
dry winters in the southern
U.S. tier.
Drought classified as
“exceptional” grips sections
of Nevada, Utah, Arizona,
New Mexico and Colorado.
The Climate Prediction
Center reported Thursday
an 80% chance that La Nina
will yield to neutral condi-
tions in May.
Looking far ahead, the
center projected a 40%
chance La Nina will return
next winter, compared to
a 47% chance that neutral
conditions will prevail and
a 13% chance an El Nino
will form.
Predictions this far out
are tentative. El Nino win-
ters are typically warm and
dry in Washington. The
“snowpack drought” in
2015 occurred during an El
Nino.
snowpacks, typical for a La
Nina winter.
Snowpacks
started
building later in the win-
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Washington’s snowpack
entered April at 131% of
normal, according to the
Natural Resources Conser-
vation Service, the fourth
deepest in the past 30
years and a good omen for
irrigators.
The April 1 figure aver-
ages snow measurements at
sites throughout the state,
which can vary greatly.
This year, basins all over
Washington have healthy
peak this month and start
melting into streams and
reservoirs. The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s Climate
Prediction Center fore-
casts that April, May and
June will be cooler than
average in the Cascades,
another benefit to summer
irrigation.
Although a rough mea-
surement, the state’s April
1 snowpack receives ample
attention. The snowpack
has been above average for
eight of the past 10 years.
The snowpack was
137% in 2012 and 115%
in 2011, back-to-back La
Nina winters. Snowpacks
in 2008 and 1999 also sur-
passed this year’s.
Pattee cautioned against
seeing a long-term trend in
the April 1 snowpack aver-
age. “Trying to use that
number as to whether we’re
seeing a depleting snow-
pack or climate change, that
you can’t do,” he said.
La Nina winters in
February, it slammed us
with La Nina.”
Even though snowpacks
are high, 17% of Eastern
Washington suffers from
a “moderate” or “severe”
drought, the U.S Drought
Monitor reported Thursday.
Washington State Assis-
tant Climatologist Karin
Bumbaco said the region
has been getting even less
precipitation than usual.
“Looking at March pre-
cipitation numbers, they’re
very low for some areas
of Eastern Washington,”
she said. “It’s not an issue
for irrigated agriculture
because the snowpack is so
great.”
The National Weather
Service forecasts Columbia
River flows at The Dalles
this summer will be 91%
of normal. The U.S. Bureau
of Reclamation reported
Wednesday that conditions
are promising for Yakima
Valley irrigators to have
their full water allotments.
Snowpacks
typically
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
