The Phase 1 report is an overview of the complex water quantity and quality information and issues specific to Benton County. It is a first step toward assessing and planning for future water quantity and quality within Benton County and provides a template for regional water planning. The report details...
Increasing demand for exploitation of natural resources
in federal-municipal watersheds in the Western United
States has caused conflicts involving municipalities, the
U.S. Forest Service, and community interest groups. Better
understanding of the resource management process is needed
to help resolve these conflicts.
The objectives of this study were to document...
A rapid expansion of population and industrialization in recent
years has created new and difficult problems in water resources
management. Prudent management of water quality will require that
more efficient methods be developed for evaluating large volumes of
data on complex river systems, and tabulating the results in a form...
This research provides details of water resource conflict and cooperation in Oregon between 1990 and 2004 by using an event database methodology. Events were concentrated in four of 18 basins. No basin accounted for more that 25% of the total water rights events, the most evenly distributed issue type. Overall...