Southern Willamette Valley Groundwater Management Area

Featured 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 your well? Albany Democrat-Herald, May 14, 2002