Amazing the stuff you find when you clean out old emails. I ran across this one that I emailed on 12 December 2015. It’s a response to an email from former Oregonian reporter Kelly M. House. who wanted to (and ultimately did) interview me for her exceptional summer 2016 series, Draining Oregon. Here’s my review of that series and some modest proposals about groundwater in Oregon. Note the italicized text. Or not. Hi, Kelly. Sorry I have been uncommunicative. I am in Corvallis, but preparing for the upcoming week at the National Ground Water Association’s Annual Groundwater Expo in Las Vegas – I leave early tomorrow and will be gone through 17 December. I am running several committee and other meetings and have been preparing materials for same. I would love to chat with you about groundwater. I must first advise you that I am in my second 3-year term on OWRD’s voluntary Groundwater Advisory Committee (GWAC).It is an appointed position. I don’t get to Portland much these days; I even fly out of Eugene when I can. I don’t see Oregon lapsing into a California-type situation vis-a-vis groundwater. Oregon is wise enough to manage SW and GW…