水 正规赌博手机软件 Takes Center Stage in Columbia Basin Meeting

Access to adequate water supplies is critical to Simplot and to our growers who help us contribute to feeding our world. 水就像土豆和磷一样对我们的生意至关重要.

最近, 比较正规的赌博软件参加了在摩西湖的会议和游览, 华盛顿, highlighting the importance of securing additional federal funding to complete the 敖德萨地下水替代计划(OGWRP). This essential collaborative project seeks to preserve the existing Odessa aquifer by replacing irrigation water currently being pumped from the aquifer with water from the Columbia River. 它致力于保护工人, 农民, and communities who depend on Central 华盛顿's robust agricultural sector, 确保干净, 现在和未来可用的水.

旅游, which highlighted some recently constructed infrastructure for the program, started at the 华盛顿 Potato Commission headquarters in Moses Lake. 该小组从那里参观了抽水基础设施工地, including pumping stations and a siphon that moves water across low spots in the land. The group then returned to the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District (ECBID) board room to debrief.

Simplot Regional Raw 箴curement Manager Dan Robinson is excited about the progress of the expansion project. “It is centered around our key potato storage crop growing region. This is an important time to supply adequate volume and quality water to our ever-expanding growing base in the Columbia Basin,他指出.

The Columbia Basin Conservation District (CBCD) and the ECBID organized the event. 在大约30名与会者中, 包括Simplot, 特里·考斯比局长是谁, head of the USDA's Natural 资源 Conservation Service (NRCS). Cosby told tour attendees that there is significant federal money available to help complete the project and he encouraged everyone on the tour to continue lobbying the federal government to obtain a portion of the funding.

“J.R. Simplot公司 has long been involved in efforts to improve access to water in the Columbia Basin including our ongoing support of the Columbia Basin Development League,肯·戴伊说, Simplot的政府和公共事务总监. “It was very encouraging to see Chief Cosby’s support and encouragement for our efforts. It was clear from those who attended that there is strong non-partisan support at both the state and federal level to make this long-standing goal a reality.”

参加这次访问的还有华盛顿州议员, 华盛顿州参议员, and representatives of the 华盛顿 State Department of 农业 and 华盛顿 State Department of Ecology. 各城市代表, 灌溉地区, 羔羊韦斯顿, 垦务局也出席了会议. 土地owners, conservationists, and leadership of the host organizations rounded out the group.

Simplot relies heavily on growers in the Columbia Basin to provide raw product to its potato and vegetable processing plants. Completing the project will help protect the water supplies for communities in the region, while also providing existing irrigators with quality water from the Columbia River and potentially opening additional acres for irrigation in the region.

Simplot’s Moses Lake Field Operations Manager Jeramy Whitaker summed up the benefit nicely. “The opportunity to expand the Columbia Basin Irrigation 箴ject will open up a new land base and put less pressure on deep wells in a declining aquifer.”

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Simplot与哥伦比亚盆地的33个种植者合作. The 公司 has two food plants in the area – one in Moses Lake and one in Othello – and recently broke ground on a third.