Bipartisan forum on watershed management tonight

The pursuing is simply a news merchandise from nan candidates for Bonneville County Commissioner District 1.

IDAHO FALLS — Water is proving to beryllium a basking taxable this governmental season. A bipartisan forum connected watershed guidance will beryllium held Thursday, Aug. 29, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. astatine nan Tingey Auditorium astatine University Place successful Idaho Falls

Rather than attraction connected nan existent conflict betwixt definite groundwater and aboveground h2o users, this chat will look much broadly astatine nan guidance of aboveground and groundwater betwixt Palisades and American Falls reservoirs. Speakers will research nan imaginable costs and benefits of various guidance actions to some region residents and downstream users. They will screen issues related to cultivation irrigation, hydropower, DCMI (domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial) uses, and food and wildlife residence arsenic affected by h2o management. Also of liking is caller investigation into nan imaginable for flood irrigation to enactment arsenic an effective intends of aquifer recharge successful nan enarthrosis seasons erstwhile elder surface-water h2o authorities are available. Featured speakers are:

• Jeff Raybould, Chairman, Idaho Water Resource Board
• James Cefalo, Regional Manager, Idaho Department of Water Resources Eastern Region
• Mayor Rebecca Casper, City of Idaho Falls
• Dr. Rob Van Kirk, Science and Technology Director, Henry’s Fork Foundation
• Dr. Christina Morrisett, Climate Adaptation Program Manager, Henry’s Fork Foundation

Background connected November’s Bonneville County Commissioner race

As Commissioner Roger Christensen wraps up 30 years of work to Bonneville County this year, section voters will look a prime betwixt 2 enthusiastic candidates vying to switch him.

Last May, Republican Karl Casperson and Democrat Jan Brown won their respective primaries and will compete successful November for Christensen’s District #1 Commission seat. After gathering successful person, nan candidates agreed that section and location challenges are champion resolved done collaborative approaches, truthful they decided to effort thing different to scope retired to voters – and to do it together.

The candidates are organizing 2 bipartisan, acquisition forums connected existent topics that will beryllium unfastened to nan public. The forums will delve into Snake River watershed guidance challenges connected Aug. 29 and connected Sept. 18, nan attraction will beryllium nan impacts of accelerated maturation connected Bonneville County residents.

In addition, Brown and Casperson want to study much astir residents’ concerns pinch outdoor recreation entree and opportunities wrong Bonneville County, truthful they are tentatively readying a bid of bipartisan listening posts astatine cardinal nationalist recreation sites successful nan Swan Valley vicinity connected Saturday, Sept. 28.

Finally, nan candidates are arranging a circuit of nationalist and backstage discarded guidance and recycling accommodation successful Bonneville County for Friday afternoon, Oct. 11. One of nan stops connected this projected self-guided circuit will item INL’s engagement successful processing caller technologies for coagulated discarded recovery.

Brown and Casperson dream these acquisition opportunities will build enthusiasm for nan November predetermination and promote much citizens to get engaged successful region authorities and readying processes.