| Water (H2O) related topics, information, and resource links to assist you with your water needs and enable you to answer your water related questions. Water is a limiting factor in enhancing your investment and environment. When every drop of water counts, we need to use it wisely!
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How Water Wise Are You?
Take a few minute to complete this checklist. Add up the number you circled as answers in each column to find your total. Use the information on the back to see how your agricultural water quality awareness measures up.
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Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area
In 1990 the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) declared the Lower Umatilla Basin a Groundwater Management Area (LUBGWMA) because nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in many area groundwater samples exceed the federal safe drinking water standard of 10 mg/l.
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Umatilla Basin Critical Groundwater Areas
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Umatilla County contains four of the seven Critical Groundwater Areas (CGWA) in the state of Oregon (Stage Gulch Basalt, Butter Creek Basalt, Ordnance Basalt, Ordnance Gravel). Law mandates that the Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) declare a CGWA when the usage of groundwater exceeds the long-term natural replenishment of the aquifer. To protect the groundwater supply, strict restrictions are enforced.
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Revisions to the Umatilla River Subbasin Ag.WQMA Plan & Rules
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In the Seond Biannual Review the Local Advisory Committee (LAC) agreed to make changes to area rules to clarify and simplify requirements for meeting Agriculture Water Quality Standarts.
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Weather Forecasts, River Data, and Current Water Supply
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Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB)
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PUT A SALMON ON YOUR PLATE!
When you buy a new or used vehicle, tell the salesperson you want a salmon license plate, or when registering your vehicle ask the DMV for a salmon plate. You may also choose to replace your exisiting plates at anytime, or you may request a salmon license plate when you renew. For more information about how to purchase a salmon plate, visit the Oregon DMV Website.
WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT THE SALMON LICENSE PLATE PROGRAM?
Putting a salmon on your plate is a great way to become a partner in the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. When you pay an additional $30 for your two-year passenger car license plate, $15 is granted by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board directly to projects that address road-related impacts to salmon and trout streams. The remaining $15 goes to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to promote the Oregon Plan and support fish habitat restoration in state parks.
Since the beginning of the salmon license plate program in 1997, OWEB and OPRD have each invested more than $2.5 million.
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