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Evaluating Elements of the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan
Priest Rapids Dam
Figure 1. From Kent, C (2004). Water Resource Planning in the Yakima River Basin: Development vs. Sustainability.
irrigation
Figure 2. From http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5205/figure25.html
Seasonal Irrigation Demand in the Columbia Basin – Historical and Projected
Figure 3. Normandeau Associates (2014). Technical Review: Yakima River Basin Study Proposed Integrated Water Resource Management Plan.
Yakima River Basin Agriculture Stats
· Produces more than $1.8 billion/yr in crops.
· $1.4 billion/yr in food processing sales.
· Supports more than 5,700 jobs.
· Most crops are irrigated.
· Demand for irrigation water by existing users significantly exceeds supply in dry and drought years.
· Water rights in the basin are fully appropriated.
· In a typical year, five reservoirs and stream runoff provide agriculture with 2.7 million acre-feet of water.
· In a typical year at mid-21st century, the amount is forecast to fall an average of 20 to 40 percent.
· The expected losses to agriculture along in the Yakima Valley over the next several decades will be “between $92 million at 2° C warming and $163 million a year at 4° C,” or up to nearly a quarter of total current crop value. (http://ybsa.org/climate-change / )
YRBIWRMP Role Play Part 1 - Stakeholder Groups Conference
· What are the primary concerns of your stakeholder group with regard to upcoming water resource changes and challenges? (5 min)
· What worries you?
· What will constrain the possibilities for what you hold dear?
· What are the primary interests/goals of your stakeholder group? (5 min)
· What do you want to fight for?
· What are your primary values?
YRBIWRMP Role Play Part 2 – Gauging Support for Specific Plan Proposals
We’ll take them on one by one. Follow the steps below as you work through each decision:
· Articulate your stakeholder perspective on each plan to your group. Be persuasive and give everyone a chance to speak their piece. The Government Representative should serve as the moderator to keep everyone on task and ensure that all stakeholders provide input. (10min)
· Respond to the prompts on the submission sheet (page 5). Everyone will turn in their own submission sheet, so fill out the blanks as you go. (10min)
· If your group is done wrestling with the decision/plan on the table, consider the difficulties in coming to consensus. If your group came to a decision to support or not support, but there were dissenters to that decision, why did their perspective not win out? Can you think of some alternative to the plan that could get all stakeholders on board?
1. Bumping Lake Reservoir Enlargement
· Current storage capacity is 33,700 acre-feet (13% of basin’s supply)
· The new dam would expand it to 190,000 acre-feet and inundate 2,700 acres of land
2. Black Rock Reservoir Diversion Project
· The Bureau of Reclamation could divert water from out of the reservoir behind Priest Rapids dam on the Columbia River and pump it several miles uphill (1400 foot elevation gain).
· The Black Rock Reservoir would contain 1.3 million acre-feet of water (423 billion gallons).
· Cost estimates for Black Rock’s pump-pipeline-dam-reservoir-canal construction > $4 billion
3. Targeted Watershed Protection
· Program to acquire and protect sensitive lands.
· Initially, $10,500,000 from the State of Washington would be used to secure an agreement for purchase of 46,000 acres in the Teanaway drainage and ~10,000 acres in the Naches watershed.
· Need up to $135 million altogether.
· This land otherwise is likely to be subdivided and developed
4. Market Reallocation
· Water Rights could be bought, sold, or leased.
· Would allow water transfer between districts.
· Substantial change to existing water law required.
· Currently all or part of a water right is subject to relinquishment if it is unused.
· The proposed plan would allow one to retain a right without using the water so that the right can be used by someone else
Evaluating Elements of the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan
Submission Sheet Name _____________________ Stakeholder Group_________________
1) The primary concerns of my stakeholder group are: ________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
2) The primary interests/goals of my stakeholder group are: ___________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
Bumping Lake Reservoir Enlargement Proposal
3) My stakeholder perspective on this alternative is: ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
4) The consensus decision of my group was: Support Don’t Support Couldn’t Come to Consensus
5) Which of the key forms of natural, social, and economic capital are at risk if the project does go forward? ________________________________________________________________
6) Which of the key forms of natural, social, and economic capital have the potential to be better sustained if the project does go forward? ___________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
7) With regards to questions 5 and 6, what is most important to your stakeholder? _________
______________________________________________________________________________
8) Are your stakeholder values at odds with your own? If so, in what ways? _______________
______________________________________________________________________________
Black Rock Reservoir Proposal
3) My stakeholder perspective on this alternative is: ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
4) The consensus decision of my group was: Support Don’t Support Couldn’t Come to Consensus
Targeted Watershed Protection Proposal – Teanaway Purchase
3) My stakeholder perspective on this alternative is: ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
4) The consensus decision of my group was: Support Don’t Support Couldn’t Come to Consensus
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