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From: "Crapo News Release (Crapo)" newsclips at crapo.senate.gov
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:32:23 -0700
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Subject: WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT PROJECTS APPROVED

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (Crapo)  Susan Wheeler (202) 224-5150

September 25, 2007
(Craig)   Dan Whiting  (202) 224-8078

 

 

WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT 

PROJECTS APPROVED 


Improvements on Boise River, Dworshak, Port of Lewiston, Wood River
planned


 

Washington, DC - The United States Senate has authorized a number of
water projects for Idaho in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA),
H.R. 2864.  Idaho Senators Larry Craig and Mike Crapo voted to support
the WRDA Conference Report, which passed on a vote of 81-12. 

 

WRDA authorizes programs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is
generally passed every two years. However, the last WRDA bill Congress
enacted was in 2000 when Crapo was chairman of the subcommittee on
Fisheries, Wildlife on the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee. 

 

"Passing this bill for the first time in seven years will finally
authorize critical water infrastructure projects for Idaho," Crapo said.
"These are important projects to both the livelihood of Idahoans and the
future of our water resources." 

 

"Without water projects like the ones included here, the West dries up,
literally and figuratively," Craig said.  "It is critical that these
needs are met so growing states like Idaho can continue to keep up with
ever-increasing water demands."

 

WRDA projects in Idaho include: 

 

*	Dworshak Reservoir - Improvements for recreation near Orofino,
including upgrades to boat ramps, fishing access and campgrounds. 
*	Little Wood River - Rehabilitation of the Gooding Idaho Channel
Project for flood control and for ecosystem restoration. 
*	Boise River - Provides for new studies on flood control,
ecosystem restoration, and water supply.
*	Port of Lewiston - Lifts restrictions and allows the use of fill
material to raise some (non-wetland) low areas above flood elevation to
meet project standards. 
*	McNary Lock and Dam, McNary National Wildlife Refuge - Directs
the Secretary of the Interior to have jurisdiction over the land
acquired from the Fish and Wildlife Service for the McNary Dam Project. 
*	Snake River Project - Authorizes studies and ecosystem
restoration and improvements for fisheries and wildlife through changes
to the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan for the Lower Snake River. 

*        Eurasian Milfoil study - Eurasian Milfoil is an invasive,
aquatic weed that has become quite a nuisance in northern lakes,
including Idaho. WRDA authorizes a national study, whose results will be
applicable to Idaho, on how to control the weed. 

*        Fish Creek Dam - Dam safety improvements at the Fish Creek Dam
in Blaine, County.  The water in the reservoir is used for irrigation,
recreation, flood control, and fish and wildlife habitat.

*        Riley Creek Recreation Area - Modernizing the recreation area
located near the Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille River, including
campsites, restrooms/showers, boat docks and ramps, fishing piers,
picnic shelters, roads, sewer system, and parking.  

 

                                                                   

 
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http://crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/release_full.cfm?id=284075

 

 

 

 

 

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