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Heppner Soil and Water
Conservation District
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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
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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