Due to the depleted water supply, the District will be shutting off canals on August 19th. It will take a few days to ramp down the system so you may see residual flow in some areas through the weekend. This has been the most challenging season in our history with the continued extreme drought and lowest water allotment in our southern supply. The District understands the need for solutions to the…

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We have increased our release out of Emigrant and Fish lake to get water through to our lower-end users. Our excavators are cleaning moss out of the canals to help with flow. We anticipate seeing return flows from TID towards the end of this week. We are shutting off water users that have already irrigated on the upper system to give the water users on the lower end the opportunity to irrigate…

The District Board met this morning to discuss water supply and decide on a date for storage releases. MID will begin releasing water out of Fish lake this week. We intend to ramp up the flows in the canals throughout the week and begin flushing laterals in anticipation of scheduling deliveries starting Monday the 27th. Once the system is up and running, the ditch riders will be setting up…

The District intends to continue running any available streamflow through the system this week. The weekend rain event postponed a start date for storage supply out of Emigrant lake. We intend to run our allotment of water out of Emigrant at the same time as Talent Irrigation District. They plan to meet again on Monday the 20th. If they determine a start date at that time, we will provide an…

Live streamflow in Little Butte creek is tapering off and the district would typically shift to our storage supply in Fish Lake at this time. We have been getting canals wetted this month with the streamflow, and leaks have been more prevalent than ever. The Drought has taken its toll on the canal banks and we have been working hard to plug rodent holes and target seepage areas as we find them. We…

Our primary supply reservoirs are at 27% of the full pool and 44% of the average for this date. Our allotment in the southern supplemental supply is only at 5%. We will continue to assess the snowmelt/runoff into the reservoirs as we go into May and make a determination on the number of weeks we have in storage and a start date for the beginning of those releases. After the last few storms moved…