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Go With the Flow: River Conservancy has made quiet progress
on flow restoration
Testing the waters below bend.Kyle Gorman remembers a time,
not so long ago, when many folks in Central Oregon viewed
concepts like water conservation with
By Eric Flowers
· Testing the waters below bend.
Testing the waters below bend.Kyle Gorman remembers a time,
not so long ago, when many folks in Central Oregon viewed
concepts like water conservation with suspicion, if not outright
contempt. Water flushed down the river was water wasted.
Gorman who now serves as the regional manager for the Oregon
Water Resources Department was the Deschutes Basin
watermaster back in the early 1990s. His job was to make sure
that water right holders each got their allotment of water from
the regional irrigation districts - a sort of water sheriff for
farmers and ranchers.
When asked how the landscape of water and conservation has
changed over the past decade and half, Gorman allows that he
has a standard anecdote. Back then, said Gorman, if anybody
spotted water in Squaw Creek (now Whychus Creek) in Sisters
during irrigation season, a phone call was sure to follow letting
Gorman know that he wasn't doing his job: water was going to
waste, flushed away.
These days said Gorman, if anybody spotted a dry creek bed in
Whychus, heads would be rolling as people lined up to find out

3. why the RIVER wasn't getting its water.
"That's 180 degrees difference from when I started working here
until now," Gorman said.
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Perhaps the most visible difference has been on the Deschutes
River where summer flows have roughly quadrupled over the
past eight year, thanks in large part to the work of Deschutes
River Conservancy, a federally chartered, local non-profit
whose sole mission is to restore our region's rivers which have
been depleted over the past century by water withdrawals for
irrigation.
There isn't any one group that deserves all the credit for the
progress that's been made to date. Farmers, irrigation districts,
the federal government, have all had a hand in the work. But
those who are familiar with river restoration issues
acknowledge that it wouldn't have happened without the
leadership of the DRC. The decade old organization was born
out of an initiative by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
that identified restoration of rivers as one of the tribes' top
environmental priorities. Today it comprises tribal interests, as
well as local government, farmers, irrigation districts and river
advocates. As the group celebrates its, roughly, 10 year
anniversary, it stands at the precipice of some of its most
ambitious work to date - a multi-year plan that will bring the
group close to, or perhaps beyond, its goal of increasing flows
on the middle Deschutes River to nearly ten fold of their
historic average during irrigation season. If the group's track
record to date is any indicator, they've got a decent shot at
getting there. This year, the DRC in concert with its partners
including farmers and the irrigation districts, has kept roughly
120 cubic feet per second (cfs), or about 900 gallons per second
in the river below Bend. That's a remarkable improvement over
just a few years ago when the districts typically allowed a

4. maximum of 30cfs to remain in the river below Bend where the
last of the canal diversions take from the river. The result was a
river that ran nearly dry during the hottest months of the year,
severely impacting native fish populations and other wildlife
that count on the river as a refuge.
"Those really decreased summer flows in the past have created
conditions where we have had temperatures in the 70-80 degrees
realm. Even the redband trout, a very much adapted species has
a hard time surviving those temperatures. So the water quality
has been limited at low flow," said Ted Wise, an Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist in Bend.
The department, said Wise, has set a minimum target flow for
the middle Deschutes River at 250 cubic feet per second, which
is closer to the summer flow of the Crooked River than the
relative historical trickle of Deschutes below Bend in irrigation
season.
Lower flows caused the river to fall out of compliance with
federal and state pollution guidelines. In short, the river
between Bend and Lake Billy Chinook was a mess. While the
problem was clear, the solution was not.
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When the River Conservancy was formed in the late 1990s there
was no blueprint in Oregon for the kind of work that
organization was setting out to do, said Scott McCaulou,
program director.
"We found we basically had to invent the wheel in terms of
putting water in stream," said McCaulou, one of the
organization's original two employees. In those early days the
staff worked out of their home trying to cobble together projects
using obscure and untested water laws that allowed water right
holders to allocate all or a portion of their water rights to the
river. That may not seem like a big deal, but it was a seismic
shift in the irrigation world where the labyrinth of water laws
had been designed for more than a century solely to serve the
interests of farmers and ranchers.

5. But retiring irrigation rights is a cash intensive and
controversial business. Even in agriculturally challenged
Central Oregon with its dry, thin soil drying up farmland isn't
going to make you many friends in the farming and ranching
community. It also put the Deschutes River Conservancy in
competition with others seeking water rights, including growing
cities and deep-pocketed destination resorts.
Irrigation districts, meanwhile, were concerned about losing
their rate base and reduced flows in their transmission systems,
which could in some cases impact their ability to deliver water
to customers on the gravity fed canal system.
The organization got around the impasse by focusing on a less
controversial approach - temporary water leases. The leasing
program allowed water right holders to temporarily leave their
water in the river without giving up their increasingly valuable
water rights. By fiscal year 2005, the organization had secured
roughly 66 cubic feet per second below Bend, nearly doubled
the historic flow.
In the short term, the leases allowed the River Conservancy to
chip away at the summer deficit, but they didn't do much for the
overarching goal of permanently securing instream water rights
for the Upper Deschutes Basin and the middle river. That
started to change in 2004, said McCaulou when the organization
started focusing on big-ticket conservation projects. Using
funding from a mix of federal and state resources, the River
Conservancy began looking at reducing the amount of water that
irrigators take from the river by improving the efficiency of
their delivery systems. The organization partnered with
Deschutes River Ranch near Tumalo to modernize the
development's entire irrigation system, reducing the amount of
water that the ranch needed to pull from the river. These type of
projects helped the organization chip away at its goal of 250
cubic feet in the river below Bend, but the DRC was looking to
do more than nibble. It needed to take a full bite.
At the same time, the irrigation districts were looking at ways
to improve their delivery system by piping the historically

6. open-air canals and ditches. Tumalo's Swalley Irrigation was
one of the first to seriously explore the possibility of piping -
something that many of its customers didn't readily embrace
because of the prospect of losing "canal views." After several
well-publicized battles and some turn over on the board of
directors, the district began working with the city of Bend on a
project that would have piped several miles of canal in and
around Bend's urban area. The city had hoped that by funding
the project it could free up some of the conserved water, which
would have otherwise been lost to leaks in the canals for future
domestic use, an important step in securing the city's long-term
water supply. The city argued that it would also benefit the
river, as 25 percent of the total conserved water would have to,
by law, remain in the river.
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Unfortunately for the city, the project raised a red flag for the
Water Watch, an environmental watchdog group. Unless all of
the conserved water from the piping project was left in the
upper river, Water Watch would challenge the project in court
because of its potential impact on flows in the lower river where
federally protected salmon and steelhead rely on healthy flows.
Rather than butt heads with Water Watch, the city backed off.
But where the city found only controversy, the River
Conservancy saw opportunity. Using its connections to state and
federal funding streams, the organization became the primary
financial backer of Swalley's $9 million piping project. Because
all of the conserved water, about 20 cubic feet per (or roughly
150 gallons per second) would remain in the river, Water Watch
didn't challenge the revamped project.
To the contrary, Water Watch staff say the River Conservancy
has been a positive force in the basin because of projects like
the Swalley piping project. "From our perspective, DRC has
provided a valuable service to the basin. They've gotten a lot
done in a fairly short period of time. I think the relationships
they've built are both unique and strong," said Kimberley

7. Priestley, assistant director.
That's high praise coming from a group that gives cities and
other big water users fits because of its principled, and rigid
stand on stream flow protection, especially in the Deschutes
Basin where it has challenged some of the only legal tools that
cities have to create additional water rights.
McCaulou says the group has stayed on the right side of groups
like Water Watch because it shares the philosophy that there is
a right way and a wrong way to do conservation projects.
Looking to the future, McCaulou said the group is in the midst
of putting together a 10-year conservation plan that he says will
bring the DRC just shy of the 250 cfs target for the middle river
and 32 cubic feet per second on Tumalo Creek below the
irrigation district diversion, using the Swalley project as a
model. Potential projects with Central Oregon Irrigation District
and the North Unit District on the north end of Bend could pay
huge dividends for the DRC and, in turn the rivers.
"It's always been said, since I've been here at the DRC, that
there is enough that we all agree on that we can make progress,"
McCaulou said.