Removing a century-old barrier

Removing a century-old barrier

CTUIR removes a century-old water line to restore Coonskin Creek and reopen habitat for steelhead MISSION — The pipeline carried water, just not for the people whose land it crossed. Now crews are removing the abandoned line from beneath the Umatilla Indian Reservation (UIR), more than two decades after it stopped supplying Pendleton’s municipal water system and became a barrier to fish passage.  Workers unearthed the pipeline on July 7 as part …