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Yakima Basin Integrated PlanGWPC Annual Forum 2016September 13, 2016 Orlando, FL
+Funding:The Yakima River Basin
+Yakima Basin Overview
• Basin size: 6,155 sq. miles
• Population: 360,000
• $4 billion agriculture economy
• Historically, second only to
Snake River in supporting
salmon and steelhead runs
+Yakima Basin Overview
+Yakima Basin Water
Management
• Managed by Bureau of Reclamation
• Five Reservoirs
• Capacity 1 Million acre-feet
• Average annual runoff:
3.3 Million acre-feet
• Irrigation deliveries:
• 1.7 million acre-feet
• Snowpack functions as “sixth
reservoir”
+Resource Challenges
• Surface Water is over-appropriated
• Not drought-resilient, droughts in 1992-94, 2005, and 2015
• Prorateable (junior) irrigation districts and fisheries struggling
• Junior irrigations districts reduced to as little as 37% of
allotments
+ Yakima River Basin Projected Supply and
Demand in 2030
+• Historic salmon and steelhead run:
• 800,000 fish
• Average run since 2000:
• 15,000 – 20,000 fish
• Native Coho, Sockeye and summer Chinook
extirpated
• Coho: reestablished
• Sockeye: in process of reestablishment
• Spring and fall Chinook:
• Seriously reduced
• Steelhead and Bull trout
• ESA threatened species
+ Reduced Fisheries
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+Climate Change Forecast
2040 Projected Climate Change Impact on Summer Flows by Basin
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(Earman and Dettinger, 2005)
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(Earman and Dettinger, 2005)
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+ Climate Change Impacts
+The Yakima Plan:A balanced package of actions
supported by:
• The Yakama Nation
• Federal Agencies
• Bureau of Reclamation
• US Fish and Wildlife
• US Forest Service
• State Agencies
• Dept of Ecology
• Dept of Agriculture
• Dept of Fish and Wildlife
• Irrigation Districts
• KRD
• Roza
• KID
• Sunnyside
• Yakima-Tieton
• Environmental & Recreation Groups
• American Rivers
• Trout Unlimited
• The Wilderness Society
• Local Governments
• Counties
• Cities
++ Integrated Plan Grew from the YRBWEP
Program
+Seven Key Elements: Projects & Cooperation
Fish Passage
Structural Operational
Changes
Surface Storage
Groundwater Storage
Habitat Restoration
Market-based Reallocation
Water Conservation
Seven Key Elements: Projects & Cooperation
Three 10 year phases
+ The Yakima Plan is:
• A 30-year strategy
• Three 10-year phases
• First, “Initial Development Phase” ongoing
• ~$3 billion projects
• Meet all stakeholder needs
• Address all interests equally
+ Enhanced Water
Conservation
Sealing canals, installing pipes, eliminating leaks, building re-regulation reservoirs
Portion of conserved water
returns to creeks for instream
uses
85k acre feet conserved
annually by 2023, in addition to
irrigators conserving ~100k to
date
+Fish Passage
Begun construction of fish passage at Cle Elum Reservoir
Tieton-Rimrock passage to
begin in next 7 years
Studies underway at all other
Yakima reservoirs
1-2.5K Sockeye reintroduced in
2009-2010, 85K smolt out-
migrants in 2011, 25K adults
returned in 2014
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+Surface Storage
Need to make up 1.5 million acre-foot difference in snowpack and storage
Accessing inactive storage at
Kachess Reservoir
Potential storage site at
Wymer/expanding Bumping
Reservoir in later phases
+ Structural/Operational
Changes
Reducing diversions at power stations
Kachess-to-Keechelus
Conveyance
Raising Cle Elum reservoir
pool 3 ft – 14,600 acre feet of
water
+Habitat Restoration
Teanaway Community Forest –50,241 acres, WA’s first community forest
Restored 5000+ acres of
floodplain & shrub steppe
Reconnected several miles of
side channels
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+ Market Reallocation &
Groundwater Storage
Working to develop guidelines
City of Yakima recharging
aquifer, pilot site
KRD recharging groundwater
through passive inundation
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USGS SIR 2007-5007
Predevelopment Current Conditions
+ Mean Annual Groundwater Recharge
+Legislative
Reauthorization
Senate Bill 1694
o Cosponsored by Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), passed Senate in Nov 2015
o Unanimously attached to Energy Bill
House of Representatives Bill 4686
• Cosponsored by Representatives Dave Reichert
and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
These bills:
• Endorse the YBIP and authorize its Initial
Development Phase (first 10 years)
• Establish 50/50 state and federal/private cost
share
• Irrigation districts and water users to fund
infrastructure projects with interest
• Authorize agricultural conservation, habitat
restoration and water use efficiency projects
+Funding:
•State
• $163 million since 2013
•Federal
• Senate Bill 1694:
authorizes $92 million
• Companion House Bill:
Feb 2016
•Private
• Water users funding
storage & infrastructure
projects
+ Funding
Support for YBIP Legislation
Federal Agencies Tribal
NOAA/NMFS
USFS
US Bureau of
Reclamation
Yakama Nation
State Agencies Political Committees
WA Dept. of Ag.
WA Dept. of Ecology
WA Dept. of Fish and
Wildlife
Kittitas County Democrats
Yakima County Democratic
Committee
Yakima County GOP
Elected Representatives Irrigation Districts
Governor Inslee
Sen. Cantwell
Sen. Murray
Sen. Warnick
Rep. Dent
Rep. Manweller
Rep. Newhouse
Rep. Reichert
Kennewick Irrigation District
Kittitas Reclamation District
Roza Irrigation District
Sunnyside Valley Irrigation
District
Washington State Water
Resources Association
Yakima Tieton Irrigation
District
Local Governments Businesses Conservation
Groups
City of Cle Elum
City of Ellensburg
City of Grandview
City of Granger
City of Harrah
City of Kittitas
City of Mabton
City of Moxee
Town of Naches
City of Roslyn
City of Selah
City of Sunnyside
City of Tieton
City of Toppenish
City of Union Gap
City of Wapato
City of Yakima
City of Zillah
Yakima County
Commissioners
Kittitas County
Commissioners
Benton County
Commissioners
Red’s Fly Shop
Suncadia Resort
Tamarack Guide
Service
Emerging Rivers
Guide Service
Ellensburg
Canyon Winery
Fremont Brewing
Roy Farms
Charlton Farms
Valicoff Farms
Kittitas Co.
Chamber of
Commerce
Yakima Co.
Chamber of
Commerce
Tri-City Regional
Chamber of
Commerce
Port of Benton
Port of
Grandview
Port of
Sunnyside
American Rivers
Conservation
Northwest
Forterra
Kittitas
Conservation Trust
National Wildlife
Federation
Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation
The Nature
Conservancy
Trust for Public
Land
The Wilderness
Society
Washington
Environmental
Council
Trout Unlimited
Cowiche Canyon
Conservancy
Yakima Fly Fishers
Headwaters
Chapter TU
+ The Yakima Plan:
An integrated plan that applies a
balanced package of actions
designed to provide:
• Water Supply Benefits
• Improve drought year supplies to junior
irrigation districts up to 70% of
allotment
• Provide water for growth for municipal
and domestic uses
• Improve security of junior water rights
in the basin
• Ecological Benefits
• Improve stream flow conditions
• Improve operational flexibility to
manage flows and adapt to climate
change
• Improve connectivity/viability of bull
trout populations
• Improve habitat in floodplain, riparian
zones and forested watersheds
• Increase and restore populations of
Chinook, Coho, Steelhead and
Sockeye
