The Oregon Water Coalition has asked Laura Schroeder to present Chet Prior with its annual “Friend of Farmer” award on January 27, 2009, in Hermiston, Oregon.
The Oregon Water Coalition actively supports water development projects including the recently funded research to develop aquifer recharge and aquifer storage in the critical ground water areas located in Morrow and Umatilla Counties.
Attorneys Cortney Duke and Therese Ure presented a half day seminar at the January 27 Hermiston meeting on “hot topics” in water law including: exempt well use, sharing and stacking groundwater exemptions; critical groundwater regulation and compliance; forfeiture of water rights in critical groundwater areas; reclamation contracts and jurisdiction; Overlap of Division 33/Peak Flows, Division 9 and Scenic waterways; and Oregon water courts. Many of these topics may be considered in the 2009 session of the Oregon Legislature and in the Oregon administrative rule making process.
