The City of White Salmon’s application to purchase water rights from the White Salmon Irrigation District has gone through a 90-day waiting period with no comments being filed, and the City now has 90 days to file a management plan with the Washington Department of Ecology.  Mayor David Poucher says the irrigation district is selling two cubic feet of water rights to the City, and that will serve as mitigation for the water the City draws from Buck Creek.  Poucher says with this arrangement the City will be able to stop leasing water right from Klickitat PUD, hopefully within a year.  He believes White Salmon will now have a secure water right for 100 years.  Poucher also noted the City is working with the Ecology Department on tests of aquifer storage recovery that would take excess water from Buck Creek in the winter and put it into an existing well to use during low flow periods in the summer.