Downloadable
Technical Reports
Technical Memorandum: Water Conservation Assessment
High-level summary estimates of water conservation potential and associated costs for the eight irrigation districts in the study area; addresses piping district-owned canals, piping private laterals, and on-farm conservation.
Technical Memorandum: Market-Based Approaches as a Water Supply Alternative (LPE Task 7)
Evaluates the potential for market-based approaches as water supply options; addresses price incentives to promote efficient water use and reallocation of existing supply relative to potential water management objectives.
Technical Memorandum: Assessment of Potential Enhances or New Storage Opportunities
Provides information about potential approaches, additional storage volumes, and costs for new water storage opportunities; helps inform evaluations of storage options as a possible element of future water management strategies.
Technical Memorandum: Water Right Assessment: Historical Diversions and Instream Water Rights in the Deschutes Basin (Task 1A)
Summary of existing information on water rights and water use (irrigation, municipal, quasi-municipal and instream) in the Upper Deschutes basin.
Technical Memorandum: Water Right, Legal and Policy Opportunities and Impediments for Stored Water, Forbearance, Instream Flow Protection, and Mitigation (Task 2, Part 2)
Evaluates potential water right opportunities for managing reservoirs to increase streamflow in the Upper Deschutes outside of irrigation season and to establish mitigation credits (note: Task 2, Part 1 was not implemented per BSWG decision as additional information became available).
Technical Memorandum: Water Right, Legal and Policy Opportunities and Impediments Associated with Options for Water Movement (Task 4)
Explores potential ways to move water rights and/or water supply to meet various needs.
Technical Memorandum: Water Right Opportunities and Impediments for New or Expanded Reservoir Storage (Task 5)
Identifies opportunities and impediments for new or expanded water storage from water rights/legal perspective.
Technical Memorandum: Groundwater Mitigation under the Deschutes Basin Groundwater Mitigation Program; A Summary of Projected Supply and Demand (Task 6)
Evaluates the projected supply of, and demand for, mitigation credits for allowing new uses of groundwater.
Technical Memorandum: Evaluate Water Right, Legal and Policy Opportunities and Impediments Associated with Several Potential Actions in Whychus Creek (Task 3)
Considers potential groundwater-surface water exchanges and below ground storage opportunities in the Whychus Creek basin.
Technical Memorandum: Current Hydrologic Forecasting, Potential Improvements, and Next Steps
Evaluation of opportunities for improvements in hydrologic forecasting approaches that could enhance water management operations in the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River basins.
