WaterWatch of Oregon

Since 1985, protecting and restoring natural flows in Oregon rivers and streams to sustain native fish, wildlife, and the people who depend on them.

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Thanks to the #OregonFlyFishing blog and #CaddisFlyShop in #Eugene for sharing our alert on Thursday's deadline to submit comments supporting new instream water right applications for south #Willamette streams and tributaries. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday. https://t.co/R5AeoXUsCk

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#HappyNewYear! We're back with the first #Currents of 2025 with more on our 40th anniversary, the latest on upper #WillametteRiver #InstreamWaterRight applications, our appearance at the @PatagoniaOregon store, and the #Environmental legacy of #JimmyCarter https://t.co/2SyxdpTOdz

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#WaterWatch secured critical results in 2024, and while it was a busy year we're not slowing down for 2025 given the expected challenges. Can we count on you to make one last year-end gift before midnight to continue the work of preserving #Oregon #Rivers? https://t.co/VzRGpBoykp

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With four days left to make a tax deductible contribution that will count towards your 2024 taxes, consider planned giving like #Distributions, business partnerships, or become a #RiverDefender to incorporate #WaterWatch into your estate plans or will. https://t.co/RkTgyPYPvS

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Happy holidays! It was another busy year with the removal of two fish-impeding dams in the #RogueBasin, our ongoing work to remove #WinchesterDam, the state's adoption of updated #Groundwater rules, new #ISWR applications for the #Willamette, and more. https://t.co/nwqCUyC7XZ

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In this #Currents we've included links to additional press received in the wake of the #PomeroyDam removal, the online edition of our End of the Year Accomplishments, and don't forget to join #WaterWatch at the #Portland #Patagonia location on Dec. 19th. https://t.co/rQVRBw4Cij

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With 2025 less than a month away, #WaterWatch has had another strong year with numerous accomplishments and landmark wins in our mission to protect and restore #Oregon #Rivers, made possible by the continued support of members and supporters like you. https://t.co/Vzp1K1AqYZ

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Support @WaterWatchofOR during @GivingTuesday through 9 p.m.! All donations made via our @GlobalGiving page will be matched proportionately based on final fundraising totals, so make your gift count! Visit our #Linktree or #WaterWatch homepage for more! https://t.co/YgJyxG3aTj

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Our partners at @GlobalGiving are offering an incentive fund to match donations all day during @GivingTuesday from 12 midnight to 9 p.m., with all donations made through our #GlobalGiving page matched proportionately and based on final fundraising totals. https://t.co/YgJyxG3aTj

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This year's #GivingTuesday runs all day Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, and as our @WaterWatchofOR exec. dir. mentioned in our #Thanksgiving greeting, a #WaterWatch #GivingTuesday2024 matching donation opp. is coming together now. Details Mon. the 2nd via email or at https://t.co/R1xjmCrQlD

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Thanks to the #RogueRiver #Watershed council for producing this clip on the removal of #WilliamsWhalenDam earlier this year, and the importance of a free-flowing #EvansCreek, now entirely free-flowing at the former dam site for the first time in 128 years. https://t.co/oT1G59fykF

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Listed among #Oregon's highest-priority fish passage barriers for years, demolition of #PomeroyDam has restored access to over 100 miles of #Salmon and #Steelhead habitat on the #IllinoisRiver, one of the most important #Tributaries of the #RogueRiver https://t.co/HAjxrUo0Os

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A huge success this week as #WaterWatch announced the completion of the #PomeroyDam removal on the #IllinoisRiver, WaterWatch's advocacy for sustainable #Groundwater management in #DeschutesCounty in the ongoing Thornburgh trial, plus #GivingTuesday2024 https://t.co/7mPShJzc5u

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The latest #Currents has arrived with more good news for #KlamathRiver #Salmon, an appeal on the one year anniversary of the #TakelmaDam removal, a great response from YOU on #WillametteRiver #Instream applications, and much more! #VoteTheEnvironment https://t.co/ojz7C87fM9

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Don't forget, TODAY is the last day to submit comments in support of #ODFW's #InstreamWaterRight applications on 67 streams and tributaries in the middle #WillametteRiver basin. You can submit remarks here, but do so now! Deadline is 5 p.m.! Don't wait! https://t.co/GMFXzseE1i

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Featuring a cover photo of the #RogueRiver utilizing #LiDAR technology, our fall issue of #Instream highlights our successful #Groundwater allocation effort, what's next for the #KlamathRiver, tips for #Oregon #Trout #Anglers and more! In mailboxes now. https://t.co/N1vB1GWDlP

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Tomorrow (Oct. 31st) is the final day to submit comments in support of #ODFW's #InstreamWaterRight applications on 67 streams and tributaries in the middle #WillametteRiver basin. Submit remarks here, but the cutoff is tomorrow at 5 p.m.! Don't wait! https://t.co/GMFXzseE1i
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[Yurok Tribe @TheYurokTribe]

Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.

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Help support new legal protections for #Instream flows and #NativeFish in the middle #WillametteRiver basin. Approval falls to the #OWRD so it's important for those of us who love #Oregon #Rivers weigh in with our support — and we've made it easy to do so. https://t.co/JiNbkRWOhR

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For the first time since 1912 (the year the #Titanic sank) biologists with @MyODFW photographed a fall-run #Chinook #Salmon returning to spawn in an upper tributary of the #KlamathRiver above the former #JCBoyleDam site weeks after dam removals concluded. https://t.co/IyegLtjHqT