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SUNDAY • August 21, 2022 • Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $3 NEED FOR SPEED Mountain View High’s Diggory Dillingham set to compete in Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Hawaii • SPORTS, B1 HUNNELL ROAD Bend PRIZED WATER SUPPLY Homeless: Firearm incidents cause concern Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin photos A water gauge is placed on the edge of Arnold Irrigation District’s main canal. Irrigation district, residents, tangle over seeping canal BY JOE SIESS The Bulletin Homeless residents living on Hunnell Road in Bend are wondering if they were targeted earlier this month when they say someone fired multiple rounds from what sounded like a high-caliber rifle at their campsites. While nobody was injured, the res- idents said they are unsure if the shots were from an individual being negligent with a firearm, or if someone was pur- posefully shooting at them from a neigh- boring property. Witnesses said shots were fired twice: first from the west at around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 5, and then again, between 7:30 and 8 p.m. that day from the northeast, not far from U.S. Highway 97. The first episode was the most intense, striking vehicles and dumpsters and ric- ocheting off the street for about 15 min- utes, they said. During the first shooting, residents said they took cover in their tents and dwellings, laying on the ground to avoid being struck. Kierra Jackson, who lives on Hunnell Road, said bullets whizzed past her head. She took cover behind ve- hicles and couches along the road. “I could see the bullet, it was going like three or four inches from my head,” Jack- son said. “It was literally at head height. It would’ve been a head shot.” See Homeless / A5 A small section of Arnold Irrigation District’s main canal is lined with concrete near Bend. BY MICHAEL KOHN • The Bulletin F rom above, the Arnold Irrigation District main canal appears like a serpent, meandering in gentle green curves along the southern fringe of Bend. At ground level, the canal is lined with shrubs and ponderosa pine trees, perfect cover for mule deer and other wildlife. It seems idyllic. But just below ground is a highly prized water supply that is under fierce debate. The water supply that feeds this ecosystem is the result of water seeping into the ground from the canal, which was in- stalled more than a century ago by settlers who could not predict the problems, debates and environmental impact their irrigation projects would cause later generations of Bend residents. Arnold Irrigation District wants to stop the seepage with a $34 million pipeline. Piping, the district says, could have kept irrigation water flowing until September this year. In- stead, the district ran out of water a month ago, leaving the canal bone dry. Geoff Reynolds, left, and Mark Elling stand above a short section of Arnold Irrigation District’s main ca- nal that has been lined with concrete near Elling’s home. Save Arnold Canal, a community-led grassroots move- ment, wants the canal lined with concrete to con- serve some water but also allow a percentage to seep into the ground to charge the shallow aquifer. See Water / A6 “We think for everyone’s sake, whether it’s keeping water in the reservoir for threatened species habitat in the winter time or transferring water to North Unit in Madras, we think there are other ways to achieve that, which don’t have the collateral damage of the pipeline.” — Mark Elling, president and board member of Save Arnold Canal Partly sunny High 94, Low 57 Page B6 INDEX Business/Life Classifieds Dear Abby C1-8 B5 C8 Editorial Horoscope Local/State A4 C8 A2-3 Lottery Market Recap Obituaries Will logging save giant sequoias? BY JOSHUA PARTLOW The Washington Post KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Every June, Tony Cap- rio and his wife Linda hike into the Sugarbowl — a cluster of giant sequoias high in the Sierra Nevada — to admire the profusion of wildflowers and walk among Doc um some ent 3. of qx the d oldest 2/ 22/ and 05 tallest 1: 07 PM trees on the planet. See Sequoias / A7 B2 B4 A9 Puzzles Sports Yesteryear C5 B1-6 C4 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 30 pages, 4 sections SUN/THU TODAY’S WEATHER Ryan Christopher Jones/for The Washington Post Fire ecologist for the National Park Ser- vice, Tony Caprio, spends time in a patch of burned forest called Sugar Bowl in Kings Canyon National Park. U|xaIICGHy02330rzu Pa ge 1
