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Title page 116
Relation River in Common
Date 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 227.468 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Implementing the Umatilla Basin water exchange was harder than might have been expected. Because the Umatilla Basin Project Act contemplated changes in water rights, approval by the Oregon Water Resources Department was required. However, when the change applications were filed, environmental groups protested. The groups supported the Act's stream flow restoration objectives but were concerned, among other things, that water users in the Umatilla Basin would "spread" exchange water to...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1340

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