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OGWRP Newsletter Archives

This page provides a convenient, easy-to-browse collection of all past OGWRP newsletters. Here, you’ll find updates on project milestones, funding progress, community engagement, and other key developments that have shaped the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program over time. Click any issue below to explore the full newsletter or public notice.

Louis Aspey, the Associate Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), listens to Doug Allen, a Resource Planner Specialist with the Columbia Basin Conservation District, about how NRCS has supported the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program (OGWRP) through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (WaterSMART initiative), Regional Conservation Partnership Program, and the PL-566 Small Watershed Program, to help convert 87,500 acres of irrigated farmland from groundwater to surface water. (USDA/NRCS photo by Nate Gallahan.)
2025​
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Louis Aspey, the Associate Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), listens to Doug Allen, a Resource Planner Specialist with the Columbia Basin Conservation District, about how NRCS has supported the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program (OGWRP) through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (WaterSMART initiative), Regional Conservation Partnership Program, and the PL-566 Small Watershed Program, to help convert 87,500 acres of irrigated farmland from groundwater to surface water. (USDA/NRCS photo by Nate Gallahan.)
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2024
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Robert Bonnie, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation, along with Roylene Comes At Night, State Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington, along with many state leaders, toured multiple sites associated with the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program throughout central Wash. June 6, 2024. (USDA/NRCS photo by Nate Gallahan.)
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Terry Cosby, Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), toured multiple locations across Washington June 11 to 13. Dignitaries accompanying the Chief included Astor Boozer, NRCS regional conservationist for the West Region; Roylene Comes At Night, Washington State conservationist; Washington State Representatives Tom Dent, Mary Dye and Joe Schmick, Washington State Senator Judy Warnick, Derek Sandison of the Washington State Department of Agriculture, Tom Tebb of Washington State Department of Ecology’s Office of the Columbia River, landowners, and leadership of the host organizations. (USDA/NRCS photo by Nate Gallahan.)
 
2023
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Leadership from across federal and state agencies toured the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project site Nov. 3, 2022. The delegation shared progress to date regarding the Odessa Aquifer rescue mission and expressed their appreciation for NRCS’s support of this critical effort. Tour participants included Astor Boozer, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) regional conservationist for the West Region; Roylene Comes At Night, Washington state conservationist, State Senators Schoesler and Warnick, Representatives Dent and Dye, Washington State Department of Agriculture Director Derek Sandison, and representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), East Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Columbia Basin Development League, and OGWRP landowners. (USDA/NRCS-WA photo by Nate Gallahan.)
2022
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Leadership from across federal and state agencies toured the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project site Nov. 3, 2022. The delegation shared progress to date regarding the Odessa Aquifer rescue mission and expressed their appreciation for NRCS’s support of this critical effort. Tour participants included Astor Boozer, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) regional conservationist for the West Region; Roylene Comes At Night, Washington state conservationist, State Senators Schoesler and Warnick, Representatives Dent and Dye, Washington State Department of Agriculture Director Derek Sandison, and representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), East Columbia Basin Irrigation District, Columbia Basin Development League, and OGWRP landowners. (USDA/NRCS-WA photo by Nate Gallahan.)
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2021
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