Editorial -- Celebrating 100 Years -- Bureau of Reclamation, Water Pioneers Created Our Valley's Prosperity

From: Yakima Herald-Republic | Date: June 16, 2002 | Copyright information

As the federal Bureau of Reclamation prepares to observe its 100th anniversary Tuesday, we can only say this: What a century of incredible accomplishment it has been.

For openers, let's note that we all sit smack dab in the middle of one of the bureau's huge reclamation success stories, the Yakima Irrigation Project. Without the five bureau-managed reservoirs that feed the Yakima River Basin, this area as we know it would not exist.

Yakima might be a village still clustered ar...

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