Vote: NO – Signed into law by Gov Kotek on March 20, 2024
Status (overview) of bill: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1567
Committee assigned to bill: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Committees/SVEMFW/Overview
The Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan is a 30-year plan to improve stream flows and water supplies in the Walla Walla watershed. Senate Bill 1567 directs the Water Resources Department to collaborate with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the State of Washington to implement and guide bistate water management in the Walla Walla River Basin pursuant to the Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan, with advice from a Walla Walla River Basin advisory committee.
An ongoing flow study that began April 2021 will also be wrapped into the strategic plan. This Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council study looks at how to maintain water supply for agriculture while increasing in-stream flows for fish populations.
The Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan, human existence in the 21st Century requires abundant electricity (ask any Tesla owner); hydro-electric generation from dams is the greenest method of producing that asset. Those of us concerned with saving the fish can support the investment of rushing them up and
over dam heads with a Whoosh Salmon Cannon device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTNTTbafg0 <= For the sake of all that’s great while living in the Pacific Northwest, all Snake & Columbia River dams must remain and maintained in place ad infinitum. It’s an established scientific fact that fish and
humans CAN coexist! Please vote ‘No’ on SB 1567 and oppose all dam-removal considerations in any other proposed legislation.
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