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Article: Black Rock backers build reservoir of support
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- May 30, 2005
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By LEAH BETH WARD
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
SUNNYSIDE -- On a recent spring evening here, Granger farmer Tom
Carpenter hoped to make a connection with 13 ordinary people on the
need for the Black Rock reservoir.
"You and I exist because we have been able to sustain our lives
with the irrigation system built 100 years ago," Carpenter, a folksy,
bearish man, told a Head Start board that sets policy for the
Washington State Migrant Council.
"Now we're running out of water. We need a system for the next 100
years."
It seemed an unlikely group to troll for political support, the
sons and daughters of immigrants who have worked on farms like
Carpenter's for decades. The proposed dam's epic size -- ...