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Black Rock Reservoir
 

Looking west toward Yakima
Land speculators
bet Black Rock
will be built
If Black Rock reservoir is built, it will be a world-class draw for tourists.
 
People will want to buy subdivided parcels to build boatdocks, campgrounds, convenience stores, and everything a tourist's heart is known to desire.
 
Investors Zine A. and Najiba Badissy, of Kirkland, Wash., and Linda Lohse, of Glenn, Calif. have recently purchased lion-size chunks of property at the edges of the proposed body of water. Their hundreds of acres of sage land lie at the west end of the proposed reservoir, on the Yakima side, away from the proposed damsite. That's where the goodies would be located.
 
Other nearby landowners include Marti Martinez of Simon Livestock, Lynn Andrew Tayor, and Claude Christy.
 
 
 
 
 
 

County map BELOW shows where the Badissy / Lohse properties are located (red circles);. The TOP map shows the general location of the proposed reservoir in relation to Yakima. Both the Badissys and Lohse have paid millions to the land's former investors, the Prudential Insurance Company. The giant parcels likely would be worth 10 or more times as much if subdivided after the reservoir is built.

Biggest promoter of Black Rock Reservoir construction is the Yakima Basin Storage Alliance, headed up by former U.S. Rep. Sid Morrison. See Yakima Valley Map.