Hood River County Commissioners unanimously approved an additional easement through the County Forest for East Fork Irrigation District’s plan to place a portion of its ditch into pipe. The impacted area is approximately from Swyers Drive to Fir Mountain Road. District Manager John Buckley told the Commission that best of the part of the project will be water conservation. The district plans to eventually pipe the district’s main canal, and Buckley estimates that in the end they could put 20 cubic feet per second of water back into the Hood River.