The City of White Salmon is still waiting for the permit to allow them to put their aquifer storage recovery project into operation.  Mayor David Poucher says the City thought it would have its permit in hand by the end of 2018, but now the Washington Department of Ecology is proposing a conditional use permit by the end of January.  Poucher says they are anxious to get the go ahead to begin to collect water.  The aquifer storage recovery will collect runoff from Buck Creek in the winter during high water flows, store it underground in the aquifer to be used during the drier summer season.