Southern Willamette Valley Groundwater Management Area

FEATURE STORIES

• "Underground Treasure" in Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine, Fall 2006 Special Issue on The Willamette Basin, published by OSU Ag Experiment Station.
• Graduate Students Partner with OSU Extension to Answer Groundwater Management Questions , PNW Water 89, Summer 2006 (A topic issue news sheet produced by UDSA CSREES & Land Grant Universities in the PNW)

Press releases we've issued for the project

• 6/01/07 How to Protect Water Quality in Your Own Back Yard
• 5/22/07 For Amphibians' Sake Be Careful with Fertilizer
• 10/10/06 Well and Septic System Class Offered for the New Groundwater Protection Area
• 10/5/06 Southern Willamette Valley GWMA Committee To Hold 5 Open House Meetings
• 6/9/06 Rural Residents Asked to Participate in OSU Study of Well Water
• 4/24/06 New Report Examines Residential Sources of Nitrate in S. Willamette Groundwater
• 1/25/06 OSU Extension Recommends Ways To Protect Wells and Septics During Floods
• 5/25/05 Oregon DEQ Announces Creation of Southern Willamette Valley GWMA
• 10/6/03 DEQ Schedules Public Meetings & Hearings for GWMA in Southern Willamette Valley
• 4/8/03 DEQ Finds Some Pesticide Contamination in Southern Willamette Groundwater
• 10/31/02 Class for Coburg on Septic System & Yard Care to Protect the City's Drinking Water
• 5/2/02 DEQ Launches Second Phase of Groundwater Study

Media Coverage

• Coburg wins federal funds for sewer, The Register-Guard June 30, 2007
• With water safety in question, monitoring program a hit, The Register-Guard. June, 2007
• Committee devises plan to cut high nitrate levels, The Register-Guard, Oct 13, 2006
• State plans to target nitrate pollution, The Register-Guard, May 26, 2004.
• Likely Declaration of a Groundwater Management Area in the Southern Willamette Valley, by Denise Kalakay, Oregon Insider Environmental News Journal, November 15, 2003, Envirotech Publications
• State officials ponder problem of polluted groundwater, KMTR-TV Channel 16 News, October 3, 2003
• High levels of nitrate in Willamette Wells on Oregon Considered, KOPB public radio, October 3, 2003
• State Issues Warning on Well Water, by Scott Maben, The Register-Guard, October 3, 2003
• Water management area may flow from well tests Corvallis Gazette-Times, August 15, 2003
• Well tests prompt plan for water management area Albany Democrat-Herald, August 14, 2003
• Water table causes health concerns Daily Barometer, April 29, 2003
• State lifts water warning near OSU fish lab Albany Democrat-Herald, February 10, 2003
• How well do you know our well? Albany Democrat-Herald, May 14, 2002