CELP is Washington’s Water Watchdog 

CELP brings its water law expertise and passion to help citizen groups and tribes throughout Washington to protect their rivers, streams and aquifers.   From what we learn from people working on the front lines, river by river, aquifer by aquifer, we advocate for science based, sustainable water management in the legislature, in the courts and with government agencies.   Kayaking Hanford Reach, Columbia River.

CELP and other river advocates sue to keep water in the Similkameen River and Coyote Falls.   

Okanogan PUD wants to begin generating power from the long-dormant 100 year old Enloe dam, reducing the river, a major tributary to the Columbia, into a mere trickle.  Regrettably, the Department of Ecology certified this ill-devised plan, violating its duty to protect aesthetic flows and recreation for the public.  Trial is set for mid-April 2013 before the Pollution Control Hearings Board.