How to Successfully Use Data Analytics to Make HR Decisions
Human resources (HR) is an important field for any organization, irrigation districts included. Finding the right employees and making sure they are performing at the top of their abilities is crucial to an organization’s success. While gut instinct always plays a role in personnel decisions, data analytics are playing an increasingly important role as well. […]
RH2 Engineering: Finding Ways to Make Irrigation Infrastructure More Reliable and Long Lasting
RH2 Engineering, Inc., has been providing civil engineering, planning, and environmental services to municipal and irrigation clients across the Pacific Northwest for 40 years. RH2 can provide irrigation district clients with designs for full facility upgrades or evaluations of their assets that allow them to pinpoint crucial pieces of infrastructure to repair or replace. RH2’s […]
Daren Coon: Insights From a Career at NMID
Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District (NMID) is the largest irrigation district in Idaho, covering 69,000 acres and serving 100,000 water users. Over recent decades, its area has undergone a dramatic process of urbanization, necessitating the construction of a pressure urban irrigation system. It also went through the title transfer process with the Bureau of Reclamation […]
Reclamation’s Successes in the Pacific Northwest
Lorri Gray, the director of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Columbia–Pacific Northwest Region, has been working for the agency since high school. With experience working for Reclamation in Nevada; Washington, DC; and Idaho in a wide range of positions, Director Gray knows the agency inside and out. In this interview with Irrigation Leader, Director Gray discusses […]
Mark Zirschky: Pioneer Irrigation District
Years worked in irrigation: 27 Years as manager: 12 Number of employees: 16 Service size in acres: 34,000 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 150,000 Main crops: Alfalfa hay, sugar beets, potatoes, onions, corn, grain, wheat, seed crops Irrigation methods: Gravity, drip [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top issue […]
Murray Turner: Waitaki Irrigation Management Ltd.
Years working in irrigation: 40 Years as manager: 7 Number of employees: 2 Size of service area in acres: 17,000 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 21,100 Main crops irrigated: Pasture crops for dairy farming, horticulture, feed crops Predominant irrigation methods: Spray, flood [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top […]
Dan Temple: A&B Irrigation District
Years working in irrigation: 44 Years as manager: 22 Number of employees: 28 Size of service area in acres: 82,000 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 210,000 Main crops irrigated: Malt barley, sugar beets, potatoes, alfalfa, corn, beans Predominant irrigation methods: Sprinkler [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top issue […]
Dave Solem: South Columbia Basin Irrigation District
Years working in irrigation: 37 Years as manager: 36 Number of employees: 115 Size of service area in acres: 230,000 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 800,000-1,000,000 Main crops irrigated: Alfalfa, potatoes, apples, wheat, corn, grapes Predominant irrigation methods: Center pivot, sprinkler, drip [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top […]
Ángela Rojas Escudero: Río Choapa Joint Board of Control
Years working in irrigation: 20+ Years as manager: 6 Number of employees: 17 Size of service area in acres: 39,536 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 62,873 Main crops irrigated: Pisco grapes, walnuts, avocados, citrus fruits, apricots, pasture Predominant irrigation methods: Drip, furrow [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top […]
Jesús Reyes: El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1
Years working in irrigation: Lifelong Years as manager: 16 Number of employees: 108 Size of service area in acres: 69,010 Amount of water diverted for irrigation per year in acre-feet: 370,000 Main crops irrigated: Pima cotton, pecans, alfalfa, winter onions Predominant irrigation methods: Flood [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Irrigation Leader: What is the top issue facing your […]