COLUMBIA BASIN DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
Annual Conference
“Where the Hell’s my Water?”
Thursday November 7, 2013
ATEC, Moses Lake, WA
12:50 Registration
1:20
Welcome
Vicky Scharlau, Executive Director, Columbia Basin Development League
Chris Voigt, Executive Director, Washington State Potato Commission—Presenting Sponsor
1:30
How the Ice Age Impacted Central Washington
Nick Zentner, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg
2:00
Columbia Basin Project Progress Panel: A View from the Canals
Introduced by Jeff Schibel, League Secretary
Tim Culbertson, Manager, Grand Coulee Project Hydroelectric Authority, Ephrata
The Changing Environment of Hydropower on Irrigation Canals
Stephanie Utter, Field Office Manager, US Bureau of Reclamation, Ephrata
Managing Reclamation Projects in a Time of Declining Resources
Darvin Fales, Manager, Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Quincy
Crisis Management… Preventing Canal Breaches
Craig Simpson, Manager, East Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Othello
Overview of Current CBP Irrigation District Issues
Dave Solem, Manager, South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Pasco
Coordinated Response to Potential ESA Listing
Q&A
3:00
BREAK
3:15
Setting the Stage
Milt Johnston, CBDL Board of Trustees Chair
3:25
Moving From the Aquifer to Surface Water…We’ve Come a Long Way Baby
Introduced by Jake Wollman Jr, League Treasurer
How We Got Here and Where We’re Going--Is There Federal Funding for the Future?
Mike Schwisow, Director of Governmental Affairs, Columbia Basin Development
League, Olympia
Commitment to the Project--The State Investment
Derek Sandison, Director, Office of Columbia River, Department of Ecology, Yakima
Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program
Levi Johnson, Development Coordinator, East Columbia Basin Irrigation District,
Othello
Getting Water to Landowners--Pipeline Development
Craig Simpson, Manager, East Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Othello
Financing Public Infrastructure Projects
Susan Musselman, Director, Public Financial Management, Inc., Seattle
4:25
Water Supply Considerations as part of the Columbia River Treaty Review
Matt Rea, Program Manager, Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 Review U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District
4:50
Completing the Rest of Project
Mike Schwisow, Director of Governmental Affairs, Columbia Basin Development League,
Olympia
5:05
Reception
5:50
Raffle Drawings
6:00
Dinner
Invocation by Jake Wollman, Jr., League Treasurer
6:45
CBDL Annual Meeting
Milt Johnston, CBDL Chair of the Board of Trustees
Awards, trustee election, other business
7:15
Keynote Address
Introduced by: Orman Johnson, League Vice Chair
Alex McGregor, President, The McGregor Company, Colfax
8:00
Safe Journey Home!