Summary
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) prepared a Watershed Plan-Environmental Assessment by for the East Fork Irrigation District Modernization Project with Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) as a cooperating agency. The project would convert the open irrigation canals to closed, pressurized irrigation infrastructure to improve the efficiency of the irrigation district. BPA would fund a portion of the project to improve the Eastside Lateral Pipeline in Hood River, Oregon, part of the East Fork Irrigation District’s distribution infrastructure. In November 2020, BPA adopted, as DOE/EA-2118, the final EA issued by NRCS in August 2020, and issued a BPA FONSI and Mitigation Action Plan.
For more information, see https://www.bpa.gov/efw/Analysis/NEPADocuments/Pages/East-Fork-Irrigation-District-Modernization-Project.aspx and https://oregonwatershedplans.org/east-fork-id#1e8e12a6-f681-4c77-80f3-02c7c56df605.