Water Select
SF 70 status: Enacted — Assigned Chapter Number 73 (updated Mar 7, 2026).
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2026 Construction ProjectsAlpine Well #4 Transmission Pipeline 2026Cloud Seeding: Wind River and Sierra Madre mountain ranges 2027 (ground‑based)Gillette Red Hills Tank 2026LaGrange Well Connection 2026Little Snake River Battle Lake Modification and Forest Management Demonstration Project 2026Small Water Development Projects – New Development 2026 2026 Rehabilitation ProjectsBig Horn Canal ID Five Mile Pipeline 2026Cody Canal ID Lead Diversion Rehabilitation 2026Cowley Transmission Pipeline Replacement 2026Deaver ID Rehabilitation Phase II 2026Elk Water Users ID Roan Wash Spill Rehabilitation 2026Glenrock Transmission Pipeline 2026GID 3.6 East Springer Pipeline Project 2026GID 29.4 Pipeline Project Phase III 2026Greybull Tank and Phase I Pipeline 2026Greybull Valley ID Upper Sunshine Outlet Works 2026Newcastle Transmission Pipeline 2026Owl Creek Re-Lift Pump Station and Dempsey Diversion 2026Powder River ID Fifteen Mile Siphon 2026Riverton West Main Street Transmission Pipeline 2026Shoshoni Well #6 and Transmission Pipeline 2026Sidon ID Byron Lateral 2026Small Water Development Projects – Rehabilitation 2026Tillard Canal Rehabilitation and Pump Station 2026 Amendments to Prior ProjectsEthete Water SupplyArapahoe Pipeline and TankArapahoe Water Supply 2016Broken Wheel Ranch Water Supply 2017Alkali Creek ReservoirMelody Ranch Water System Improvements 2018Austin-Wall Reservoir Rehabilitation 2019Interstate Diversion Structure Rehabilitation 2019Interstate Irrigation and Reservoir Irrigation District Improvements 2021Hoback Junction Public Water System 2025 Authorizing a transfer of funds from water development account I to water development account II. Authorizing a transfer of funds from water development account II to water development account I. Providing for the transfer of the test well Sheep Mountain No. 2 to the city of Douglas. Providing for a study to quantify how forest management treatments under the Little Snake River Battle Lake Modification and Forest Management Demonstration Project 2026 affect evapotranspiration and potential water yield. Providing for a study of the small water project program by the Wyoming Water Development Office. Comments: Requires a report on the study of forest management treatments to the Select Water Committee not later than November 1, 2030. Requires a report on the study of the Small Water Project Program to the Select Water Committee not later than November 1, 2026.
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The environmental impact of forest management treatments for water yield remains experimental.
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