columbia basin development league

The Columbia Basin Development League announced that they’ve invited David Palumbo, Deputy Commissioner of Operations, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, to be the keynote speaker at their conference and annual meeting.   Palumbo has been part of the water management team in the West for 12 years including projects in Colorado and Mexico as well as Hoover Dam.   T...

Registration is open for the 53rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Columbia Basin Development League where attendees will get an opportunity to see the new short film CBDL is in the midst of producing.   The event is November 2nd from 9:00 a.m. u...

The irrigation season is underway across Central and Eastern Washington which means work on the Columbia Basin Project has greatly slowed, but it is ongoing.   Mike Schwisow with the Columbia Basin Development League said coming into this past winter, they had nearly completed working on widening East Low Canal, and finished fashioning three siphons.  ...

The Columbia Basin Development League as a new leadership team for 2017.   Kevin Lyle of Othello will move from the Vice Chair role and become the new League Chair stepping in for Orman Johnson.   Odessa’s Jeff Schibel will become the new Vice Chair and Clark Kagele is the new Secretary.   Remain...

Earlier this month, at the Columbia Basin Development League’s annual conference, the League presented three awards recognizing area leaders who have played key roles in the development of the Columbia Basin Project (CBP). Nominations for the awards were submitted by CBP stakeholders and recipients were selected by a committee of League Trustees.  ...

The Columbia Basin Development League has elected two new trustees to serve in 2017.   Chip Dobson of Mattawa and Shawn O’Brien of Moses Lake will join the board January 1st.  Chip Dobson took over his family’s farm, Rosebud Vineyards, with his wife Kathy in 2014.  The property is 500...

The 52nd Annual Conference of the Columbia Basin Development League takes place on Thursday, November 3rd covering topics like supply forecast, financing the next projects and more.   Sara Cornell said most of the issues surrounding the Columbia Basin Project are complex and this provides them a forum to communicate.  ...

The early-bird deadline for the Columbia Basin Development League’s Annual Conference is Friday, October 21st.   The conference takes place November 3rd at Big Bend College in Moses Lake and will discuss a variety of water topics including forecasts, updates on projects, the political climate and much more.   T...