Crooked River Federal Reclamation Project
(Prineville Reservoir), Oregon


Beginning in April 2022, information relating to storage allocations, reports, procedures, and associated information concerning storage and delivery of water from Prineville Reservoir will be posted to this website.

Requesting and Delivering Storage Water

Date: May 24, 2025

The following procedure describes the process for requesting and delivering storage water from Prineville Reservoir. To allow flexibility to adapt to changing hydrologic conditions or other circumstances, the procedure set out below is subject to change. The latest version of the procedure can be found here.

Anyone with questions regarding this procedure, or who would also like to receive email notifications of procedure updates, should contact David Weidinger, Reclamation Bend Field Office Manager, at dweidinger@usbr.gov or (458) 218-5229. Weekly storage reports will be posted on Reclamation’s website.

  1. To request storage water, contractors must contact the Ochoco Irrigation District (OID) office (541-447-6449) prior to each Tuesday by 12:00 pm PT, requesting their desired storage water flow rate from Prineville Reservoir for the subsequent 7-day Wednesday through Tuesday period.
  2. OID, Reclamation, and the Watermaster will coordinate on Tuesday afternoons to determine the final flow rate target from Prineville Reservoir with consideration of the storage water flow rate orders from Step 1, reservoir inflow, and other pertinent factors.
  3. OID will travel to Prineville Reservoir and will set the outflow to the flow rate determined in Step 2 to the extent practical on Wednesday morning, unless conditions dictate otherwise.
  4. Reclamation will compute storage water remaining for each contractor based on the contractor’s storage allocation and to-date storage water delivered from Prineville Reservoir. A Weekly Storage Report will be posted on Reclamation’s website above as soon as practical each week.

For questions contact:
Bend Field Office
1375 SE Wilson Ave, Suite 100
Bend, OR 97702
541-389-6541


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