Volume 12 Issue 10 Nov/Dec Arizona Edition
Bob Lynch: The 101st Senator for Water and Power By Kris Polly As the tier 1 cuts under the Drought Contingency Plan start to bite, all Arizonans are aware of the reduction in water resources caused by the Colorado basin drought. However, the drought is not just cutting into agricultural and municipal water supplies, […]
Whooshh Innovations’ Proposal for Fish Passage on the Lower Snake River
Whooshh Innovations, based in Washington State, manufactures innovative fish passage structures that safely move migratory fish through tubes over dams in seconds, rather than the hours or days required by conventional fish ladders. In response to recent multibillion dollar proposals to breach four dams on the lower Snake River, Whooshh has countered with a $67 […]
Craig Simpson: Implementing the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project at the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District
The East Columbia Basin Irrigation District (ECBID), based in Othello, Washington, is one of the three districts that form the Columbia Basin Project (CBP). Since 2001, the ECBID has played a major role in implementing the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project (OGWRP), an initiative to build out the CBP to its full dimensions and bring surface […]
Volume 12 Issue 10 Nov/Dec Washington State Edition
Aquifer Rescue in Odessa By Kris Polly Since 2011, the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District (ECBID) has played a major role in implementing the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project (OGWRP), an initiative to build out the Columbia Basin Project to its full dimensions and bring surface water to the Odessa subarea, where groundwater pumping has […]
Evans Equipment: Selling Top-Quality Refurbished Work Equipment to Irrigation Districts
Evans Equipment Inc. buys, refurbishes, and sells Caterpillars and other heavy work equipment, often disassembling the machines to the frame and completely rebuilding them. This allows the company to sell top-grade equipment at 50–60 percent of the cost of new machines. Evans’s customers include irrigation districts, and it is interested in working with more in […]
How Moleaer’s Nano-Scale Aeration System Can Benefit Irrigators
Moleaer has created a novel aeration system that is vastly more effective than traditional models. It injects air in the form of miniscule bubbles only 100 nanometers in size—thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt—that, unlike larger bubbles, spread throughout a water body and do not float to the surface. This allows water […]
The Gering–Fort Laramie Irrigation District: Responding to Catastrophic Failure and Uniting to Support Aging Infrastructure
The Gering–Fort Laramie Irrigation District (GFLID) is one of the major districts on the North Platte Project, located in Nebraska and Wyoming. After suffering a major infrastructure failure, the irrigation district had to make huge changes and updates to support the water users. In this interview, Rick Preston discusses the infrastructure failure and all the […]
Volume 12 Issue 10 Nov/Dec
Cuts on the Colorado By Kris Polly In August 2021, the severe drought in the Colorado basin triggered a tier 1 shortage under the terms of the Drought Contingency Plan, resulting in automatic cuts to lower-priority water users in Arizona and Nevada. Further drought threatens to result in further cuts. Not only is this […]
Director Tom Buschatzke of the Arizona Department of Water Resources: Dealing With the Tier 1 Shortage on the Colorado River
Arizona is an arid state whose productive farmland and major urban areas are supplied by carefully husbanded water from the Colorado River, among other sources. The severe, decades-long drought in the Colorado basin has now triggered a tier 1 shortage under the terms of the Drought Contingency Plan (DCP) and, with it, automatic cuts to […]
WGM Group: Finalist in the Bureau of Reclamation’s Canal Safety Challenge
Hunter Morrical, a project engineer at the Bozeman, Montana–based planning and design firm WGM Group, took interest in the Bureau of Reclamation’s Canal Safety Challenge and entered the competition. WGM’s design, the Hydro Scoop, earned it a spot as one of the three finalists that have each been awarded $50,000 to build a prototype. In […]