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12/30/2025Brian PosewitzWaterWatch of OregonThe application should be denied because the "proposed" reservoir would have significant detrimental impacts on existing fishery resources, as shown in comments from ODFW, and because proposed conditions cannot adequately address those impacts. Conditions proposed by ODFW would address, at most, impacts to flow outside the recommended storage season of November through May. However, some water will undoubtedly reach the reservoir from June-October, whether by rain or from upstream flow, and the application shows no way to keep that water from being stored unless the reservoir level is above the standpipe and/or overflow channel, which it likely will not be (because the no-storage season will be the drier months). Moreover, even if water reaching the site were not "stored," it would need to travel through this in-channel reservoir. In reality, previously stored water would be released to offset the new water, and it would be too warm and tooo low in dissolved oxygen to meet water quality standards and/or to be consistent with the TMDLs for those parameters. (On Google Earth, the reservoir currently appears to be green from algae or plant growth, indicating the water is warm and lacking dissolved oxygen. There are no proposed conditions to address those impacts and there is little to no likelihood that any of the proposed general water quality conditions would or even could be enforced to address those problems. This is not just a theoretical problem. The reservoir appears to be very close (within about one-half mile) to the Pudding River, which already fails to meet water quality standards for temperature and dissolved oxygen, as indicated by the TMDLs. OWRD simply needs to stop approving applications like this if Oregon is to have any hope of protecting its fish populatioins and addressing its water quality problems. Thank you for considering these comments.