The Columbia River Policy Advisory Group helps the Washington State Department of Ecology identify policy issues and priorities for developing water supply.

Our meetings are open to the public.

2019 Meeting Schedule

Meeting Materials (Handouts, Presentations, Agendas, Etc)

December 13, 2018

• Agenda
• Presentations and handouts
  • 2019-20 Office of Columbia River Capital Budget Request
  • Walla Walla Integrated Plan
  • Strategic Planning
    • Ideas for PAG to Discuss 2019: Follow-up from Strategic Planning discussions in 2017
    • CR-PAG Strategic Planning Summary
• Meeting Notes

September 6, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations and handouts
  • OCR Budget and Legislative Updates
  • Switzler Reservoir EIS Scoping
  • Upper Columbia Forest Restoration/Snowpack Decision Support Tool
• Website referrals
  • Columbia River Treaty - US Dept of State
  • Switzler Reservoir Water Storage Project
  • Washington Waters

June 7, 2018

• Agenda
• Presentations and handouts
  • The Office of Columbia River’s 2019 – 2021 Capital Budget Development
  • Icicle Creek Water Resource Management Strategy
  • Washington Waters

March 1, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations and handouts
  • Draft strategic planning document
  • Cle Elum Pool Raise and Fish Passage

December 6, 2017

• Agenda
• Presentations and handouts
  • Lake Roosevelt Permitting Progress
  • Columbia River Policy Advisory Group History
  • Action items for improving the 2021 Columbia River Basin Long-Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast
    
    • Presentation
    • Handout 

September 7, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations
  • 17-19 OCR Capital Budget as of Sept. 6, 2017
  • Initial Work on the 2021 Columbia Basin Long Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast

June 1, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations
• Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program
• OCR Budget and Legislative Update
• Methow River Instream Flow Improvement Project
• Project Overview - Trout Unlimited
• Methow Valley Irrigation District
• Solving Twisp's water shortage problem
• Video about the project

March 9, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations
  • Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan - Cle Elum Reservoir Projects
  • Declining groundwater levels in domestic wells - DOH Response to Aid Municipal Water Suppliers in E. WA
  • Oregon’s Water Resources Development Program

December 8, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Presentations
  • Columbia River Treaty - Info about the Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statement
  • Yakima Basin DC Leadership (federal agency) Group Meeting
  • Office of Columbia River 2017-19 Budget and Proposed Legislation
    • Presentation
    • Handout about proposed legislation - Focus on Columbia River Water Supplies
  • Icicle Creek Water Resource Management Strategy
  • Videos
    • Cle Elum Fish Passage Ribbon Cutting
  • What  national agency leaders are saying about the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan.

CR-PAG Meeting Archives

Meeting materials from 2006-2016 are archived on our CRPAG partnerweb site. Agency policy requires such sites to be secure. Request access by clicking the link below or by emailing tim.hill@ecy.wa.gov

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Office of Columbia River Policy Advisory Group (PAG) Members

Below is a database listing all of the documents linked above.