Annual irrigation operation gives rafters 12-17 miles of rapids

 

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s annual flip-flop in reservoir water releases is again making the Tieton River in Yakima County a popular whitewater river rafting destination for the next month.
The operation in the Yakima River Basin gradually reduces flows out of the Lake Cle Elum Reservoir into the Yakima River in Upper Kittitas County and increases flows from Rimrock Reservoir, in the Yakima River’s lower arm going into the ...more