The Cascade Locks City Council unanimously approved an application to the Oregon Water Resources Department for a cross transfer of water rights between the City and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.  Cascade Locks would transfer a half-cubic-foot per second of the City’s Herman Creek water rights to ODFW, which will apply to give the same amount of their Oxbow Springs water right to the City.  It’s designed to shorten what has been an on-going process to provide Cascade Locks with the spring water necessary for Nestle’s proposed bottling water plant in the city in exchange for the creek water to enhance fish production in low flow periods.  City documents project the cross-transfer process could be finished by mid-2017.  Approval of each one is contingent on approval of the other.  A number of environmental groups oppose the proposed bottling plant.