Odessa Subarea seeks more funding for water expansion

From the Capital Press

Lawmakers and other officials say they’ll consider all funding sources to reduce the cost of bringing Columbia River water to Odessa Subarea farms.

The sentiment was expressed several times during the Columbia Basin Development League’s annual meeting last week.

Farmers in the Odessa Subarea want to replace shrinking groundwater supplies with surface water from the federal Columbia Basin Project. The project now serves 671,000 acres of the 1,029,000 acres originally authorized by Congress in the 1930s. Read the rest of the story here.