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