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Lite IPdiDioad (PirAetf A ffitenrew rafy Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District AmoinDol sleeting Program 27th Year TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1971 7:30 P.M. LEXINGTON GRANGE HALL 1. Film "ATOMIC POWER TODAY: Service With Safety" 2. Opening Meeting 3. Business Meeting 4. Election of One Supervisor 5. Introduction of Guests 6. Review of Columbia Blue t 1 . . ' -..Z' I -.-..-rw k. ur4K fiti rfik st Lak Ptnland Project. ThU dik -ill b. approximate 400 lett long and nor. spillway tom th. north end. (SCS Photo). Long Range Program Planning Important To Morrow County Future RCGrD projects - Gerald George TALK: ROLE OF NUCLEAR PLANTS By Dr. Alan H. Robinson, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Oregon State University Br HAROLD KERB ! County Extension Agent ! Have you heard your friends Sand neighbors talking about ILRPP (Long Range Program . . . j planning)? If not you and they Mountain1 should be, because the nineteen different committees are talking about your future, and the fu ture of Morrow County. The Long Range Planning ef 'fort is sponsored by the Morrow County Extension Advisory i ....... on4 .Via Vnrrftu. ! County Extension Sen-ice and is a joint endeavor of these groups and the Heppner Soil & Water Conservation District. "The various committees and within our county, the crops and feel free to attend any commit livAstoek situation, the health and educational aspect in our county and the potential for growth and development. Also, considerable attention is being given to the human resources of our county. Groups are study ing family stability, youth, con sumer competence, housing, nu trition, senior adults, and job opportunities for women. These committees with a to tal of 154 members, after review ing the general situation and exploring various avenues avail able, are making a list of rec ommendations for the future. tee which you are interested In. The Long Range Planning meetings will be drawing to a close ' around March 1, as the Extension Advisory Council has that date as a target dead line for completion of the long range planning enort. A public meeting for the en tire countv will be held in Ap ril at which time committee chairmen will have an opportu nltv to eive a reDOrt on their committee's recommendations A Long Range Planning Report will be printed and distributed , . 'Will UC Will uv.w-.v- ThTSSS GaXSeTis to all interested individuals and -u 1 groups. me various cuninuuTO n "ri""- 7 I mum sub-committees are studying the earning a schedule each 'k,B"1' general economic conditions 1 or committee hkximibj. REFRESHMENTS Compliments of Heppner Soil ond Woter Conservation District Rhea Creek Project Feasible District Objectives for 1971 1. Oirr.vU'' Lfc Pw.1l'iJ rivjw. 2. Continue tr;phi M8 survey fyr Morrow County. 3. AiKit Rhea Creek wnm in Renin: feasibility study com pleteri; n-jut Vtt-4tn Uow wavy t'-rr mouth of Rhea Ciek 4. EncMiraK plarinlriK fvr irrigation 6rflj',mr fit of North Mor row Ojtinty. 5. Comilct ufdatitiK of disirkl I'roKram and Objectives. 6. AnuM Morrow County JlanninK Cominiion on comprehens ive land uw ttian. 7. Eril?r Ooodycar cwiwrvatiyn cntst. 8. CoriiuMn the f-aiil)IIity and work plan for city of lon water ulied, 9. Coiillmie cmpliaxix on corwrvation education, including Krailu Kchoul tours. 10. t;r construction futidinK be made available for Rock Creek Wuleilnd and Willow Creek Project. Zf BETCE XXENE Tlie State Engineer's office ijej;an its study of the Rhea rft-k project during the sum mer of 1968. Of ttie 11 sites included in the preliminary survey, the site 1 the Ruggs ranch tjelow the .fjtifiuei!'. .tt Balm f'ork and Khea Cwk was the most feas ible. This site has a drainage muu ,r W) Kntirf mileK ana would prov ide a yield of 8800 j sponsor of this project showed oer 95 per cent of the farmers were interested in stor ed water. A further study of lo cal interest, is in progress at this time, and it is indicated from the State Engineers' of fice, if this study is favorable, further work will be conducted on the site during the summer of 1971. and water Oeneral chairman of the LRPP is Bob Jepsen. Committee chair men are: Public Health. Clar Ptiro Rosewall: Recreation and Tourism. Orville Cutsforth: Wa ter Resources, Ken Turner Crop Production & Marketing, Don Peterson; Public Affairs, Gene Pierce; Forestry Production & Ma rketinn. Frank Rasmussen & Bruce Malcom; Livestock Pro duction & Marketing, Ned Clark; Dairy, Kurt Gantenbein; Sheep, Shirley Rugg; Public Lands, Marv Chitty; Human Resources, Jean Nelson; Sub-Committees of the Human Resources-consumer Wafer Storage Potential Offers Recreational Use By DALE B0NEI OUtrict CoaMrratlonUt Soil Consorratloa Srl t.nif at nv man of Morrow County and there aren't any res ervoirs or lakes snown ko.- . .nrfsro area of over five acres (not counting the Colum bia). Yet each year during me ...inior and occasionally the summer, excess water runs off the land and down the creeks to the Columbia River. ink a Penland will be a first tha Unnnner Soil St Water ,U1 nw - - j-1 - Conservation District and Mor row County. Construction of this man-made reservoir was started In August of 1970 and was 70 completed before freezing wea ther came. The design prepared by the Soil Conservation Service shows a roanrvnlr with 67 SUrfaCe BCrOS being created by building a 28 foot high eartn 111! dam. ine ernst length of the dam will be 395 feet and the impoundment will noid DM) acre-ieei ui waitr. Lake Penland Corporation, a non-profit organization, la finan cing the total cost of the land m tf . o . : 1 Conservation District is the Competent. Bonnie iow.u. TWO OI.et nutrition, r.vcijrn u acre leet on an w per cent ciiance. Since 19G8 a study has been made on Rhea Creek to determ ine local interest. The study the District Supervisors are ing, nev. r,u uiu..B, ""' Rhea Creek farmers, and they Stability, Dorris Graves; Senior nlL-lon nf ttirPP . AdUITS. JUSUIie WMiiiciiuiw, farmprs actini? as a steer ing committee. Job Opportunities, Donna Berg- strom; Youth, rrancine Mans, Heppner SGrWCD Supervisors KEN TURNER. CHAIRMAN BRYCE KEENE, VICE CHAIRMAN DICK McELLIGOTT. SECRETARY ED GONTY. TREASURER ALBERT WRIGHT RUDY BERGSTROM DAVE BAKER Advisory Supervisors D. O. NELSON O. W. CUTSFORTH PAUL PETTYJOHN C. W. RUDDELL and construction with the In tention of the project being used ... . . i 1 solely lor recreation. The dam Is located on public land and an agreement wa made to give the public access to approximately 13 of the shoreline and the reservoir aur face. This access will be by a standard gravel road built by Morrow County. Campgrounds, restroom facilities, boat ramp and parking will be developed by the U. S. Forest Service and IlSn Will OB siuincu ujr uio wic- gon State Game Commission. The visitor-day use of Lake Penland has been estimated to be 20.GO0 per year. This figure. Is taken from a Forest Service, report and Is based on location and actual counts maae on win parable reservoirs. For compari-, son, Bull Prairie which is a slightly smaller reservoir but has better access had an actual count of 44,000 visitor-days for 1969. The people who are spending this time are spending money, and a percentage of the recre ational dollar will be going to the businesses of Morrow Coun ty for gasoline, groceries and fishing supplies. The county it self will be receiving larger tax revenues from the building of summer homes and other devel opments that may occur adjac ent to these reservoirs. From a USDA report on Wa ter and Related Land Resources for the Umatilla Drainage Basin 18 possible reservoir sites are shown in Morrow County. All of these could be as large as i akA penland and several could be much larger. This does not consider all the smaller reservoirs and ponds that could be built for recrea tional purposes. Many small ponds have been built and stocked with fish in the past, however, very few in the last couple of years. A new program. Rural Environmental Assistance Program (REAP) administered by the Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service, has a practice for construction of ponds and dams for wildlife with a federal cost share of 80. Recreation Is big business and will be getting bigger every year as people have more leis ure time and more money to spend on recreation. Water Is the major resource which draws the public to an area to par ticipate in the various forms ol recreation it provides, and Mor row County has a great oppor tunity here. District Annual Report Number Now Ovperators ' 1 gorvtam to Individual .,' ...i 333 Detailed Soil Survey Conservation Pinna 1 Units of Government Asslntod 6 Services to Groups 21 BruHh Control , Chlsttllug & SulwolllnR Conservation Cropping System Contour Farmlna Crop Rilduo Management DubrU Basins T Deferred Grazing Diversion rpmut 2 Qrassed Waterway Irrigation Pipeline Land Leveling Land Smoothing Pasture & Huylund Management Pasture A Haylaml Planting Proper Giiulng Use ItAngO Seeding Open Channel IndAdequately Treated ""irrigation Water Management Critical Area Planting Units 43,000 acre 74,610 acres 788 acre 56 acres 1,482 acres 1,884: acres 264 acre 2,682 acres 210 acres 169,715 feet 7.0 acres 2,120 feet 75 acre 15.4 acres 516 acres 343 acres 3,297 acres 638 acres 15,277 feet H 7.H acres 590 acres 46 acres District Achievements for 1970 L Aasl.teJ I" completion of tlm Columbia Blue Mountain RCAD project plan. 2. Lake Penland Project construction started and 70 completed. 8. An additional 5.000 acres were soil surveyed in the northern part of the county. 4. participated In aoll stewardship week and conducted conser vation education tour for grade school children and adults. 5. Soil sample and Infiltration studies made on soils In north ' end of district. . .. THE FOLLOWING ARE HAPPY TO JOIN IN SPONSORING THIS REPORT IN THE INTEREST OF CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT AND IRRIGATION SUPPLIES Morrow County Groin Growers Lexington Padberg Machinery Lexington Highland Machinery Co. Condon Frontier Machinery Co. Pendleton k Stone Machinery Pendleton, The Dalles, Walla Walla Cole Electric - Pendleton Pettyjohn's Farm fir Building Supply - Heppner Dobyns Pest Control - lone Cornett Green Feed - Heppner Murrays Drug - Heppner Rietmann's Hardware - lone Bristow's Market - lone PETROLEUM Mike Gray (Union Oil) Heppner r.,rfr;l,f Irr.Wion - La Grande Ed Dick (Standard Oil) -Farmore Service Center Irrigation "e PPner. Division - Pendleton Lindstrom Bros. - lone T fir C Stomor Grain Bins - lone Columbia Pump fir Electric Pendleton FERTILIZER Heppner Inland Chemical Heppner Bi County Chemical - lone Cenex Plant Foods - lone Paul Pettyjohn (Shell Oil) lone FINANCE Federal Land Bank Association Pendleton MACHINE HIRE Gar Aviation - Lexington White's Grading Service - lone POWER Columbia Basin Electric Heppner INSURANCE Turner, Van Marter fir Bryant Heppner Ruggles Ins. Agency - Heppner -Charles O'Connor - lone AUTOMOTIVE B fir C Repair - lone Ekstrom Trailer Sales - lone -Bank of Eastern Oregon Heppner lone -First National Bank - Heppner -Morrow County Abstract fir Title Co. - Heppner -Pendleton Production Credit Association - Pendleton Heppner Auto Sales - Heppner Farley Motor - Heppner GRANGES Willows Grange - lone Rhea Creek Grange Heppner HEPPNER SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
