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Article: Dam repair spillover is worry for farmers.(Agriculture)(Engineers are working with growers to determine their need for Fern Ridge water)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2005
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Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard
Engineers and farmers met Thursday on the need to fix Fern Ridge Dam and wrestled with a difficult question: How much water is enough to irrigate crops?
The volume of water available for irrigation will drop substantially after July 1 once the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins repairing the failing 64-year-old dam in June, said Mark Dasso, project manager, during a meeting at Lane Community College.
Although the corps must drop the water level in the reservoir to repair the dam, farmers can count on a release of 30 cubic feet of water per second until July 1 - generally considered adequate - but at that ...