Odessa Aquifer Groups Explore Common Goals

Columbia Basin Herald -- By Matthew Weaver

"COLUMBIA BASIN -- Aquifer-minded organizations are coming together to coordinate efforts to preserve the Odessa Sub-Area Aquifer. Such groups as the Columbia Basin Development League, Odessa Aquifer Replenishment Coalition, Washington State Potato Commission and Northwest Food Processors Association are part of the Odessa Aquifer Coordination Team, or OACT. The team is a group working on projects to maintain irrigated agriculture in the Odessa Ground Water Management Sub-Area of Central Washington, including those replacing ground water with surface water and those reducing water withdrawals from the aquifer."