League of Women Voters
of Umpqua Valley

This page is for LWVOR Water Study work.

Please click on any of the references listed below. Some are offsite links, some are Word documents or pdfs to be downloaded.

Please email me if you have trouble with any of the listed items.

• This is not an official League Link, but this is a good book we're encouraging water study members to read: "The Oregon Water Handbook: a Guide to Water and Water Management" by Rick Bastasch. We've ordered two copies for the group to share. They will be in the Salem office to check out and it's available at Amazon.com.
  


• Issues for Action 2008-2009. LWVOR positions, important to read water-related pages 73 - 81. Pdf, 117 pgs.


• Official Scope of LWVOR Water Study 2007 - 2009 (word doc)


• Official scope of the Lane County Water Study (word doc)


• Focus on Oregon's Drinking Water. LWVOR study done in 1976. New pdf from scan, 4 pgs.


• LWV of Curry County's Water Study: Water Sources and Uses in Curry County, 7/06, 15 pages. Updates their 1993 study.


• November 2005 Lane County League Report on Water Quality and Quantity. Word document, 12 pgs, 102k, dated 5/15/06.


• LWVUS and water resources background (offsite)


• Impact on Issues (pdf) from LWVUS all position statements for 2006 - 2008, see pages 3 and 45 to 46 for specific water positions/actions.


• Download LWVOR Water Study Meeting Minutes (some are word docs, some are pdfs):
  

  10-09-07 10-23-07 11-07-07 12-04-07 01-17-08 02-06-08 03-19-08 04-24-08

  05-22-08

  Non-League Links:

• Oregon's Revised Statutes 2005 (ORS)


• An Introduction to Oregon's Water Laws: Water Rights in Oregon. OWRD, 8, 2006. 48 pg pdf.


• USGS water budget – has a section on Klamath Lake


• This article reports on a study of nitrates from septic systems in Oregon:
  http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1816
  http://or.water.usgs.gov/proj/or186/


• Brownville Dam Chart. Regulatory requirements for the Brownsville Dam Removal Project. 2 pgs.
  
  
• SYMPOSIUM ARTICLE: SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION: n1 OREGON'S INSTREAM FLOW EXPERIMENTS, 37 pgs.
  
  
• Session Title: Broadening Support to Protect the Future. Institute for Water and Watersheds, 9/25/07, 14 pgs. water.oregonstate.edu.
  
  
• Before I use this, I may need this. Pamphlet by Department of State Lands, 9/05, 2 pgs, tells where to get different kinds of permits and the online addresses of relative agencies.
  
  
• True Grit: Gravel, Grain & GIS. The Aggregate Mining/Farmland Consensus Group Experience. Institute for Natural Resources, OSU. 34 pgs, a powerpoint presentation. Goes fast, but is a bit cryptic without narration for the novice.
  
  
• Ltr to Mrs. Tamra Mabbott, Umatilla County Planning Department, 12/01/06, signed by Michael F. Ladd, Region Manager, Water Resources Department of Oregon (WRD). 6 pgs.
  
  
• State Water Related Permits User Guide. By the Department of State Lands and 6 other departments. 69 pgs.