A partially covered section of the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District's main canal. Located at the base of a hillside that sustained significant damage from the Rimrock Retreat Fire, the area has been ...

The first US pilot that will site solar panels over irrigation canals is going to deploy long-duration iron flow battery storage. Project Nexus is a $20 million pilot in California’s Turlock ...

(Update: Repairs done, power restored but fire-related power outage cut service to some) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Repairs are complete and water service is being restored to most of the 1,800 affected ...

Predictive control techniques, particularly Model Predictive Control (MPC), have emerged as a transformative solution in the management of irrigation canal systems. These methods allow for the ...

In this op-ed, American Vegetable Grower Editor Carol Miller shows how the principles of irrigation haven’t changed. The ...

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Oregon has released a Final Watershed Plan-Environmental Assessment and a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Arnold Irrigation District ...

Two regional water distribution districts in Arkansas are racing to the first phase finish line on multimillion-dollar canal system projects designed to deliver water from the Arkansas and White ...

TWIN FALLS — At this time of year, the common sights and smells of smoke rising from farm ground signal the coming of the irrigation season. But the annual process of burning laterals and ditches is ...

The cooler, wet March has allowed a brief delay in the start of irrigation season the Gem County, but with temperatures starting to push into the 70s, that’s about to change. Water began flowing into ...

SISTERS, Ore. — When Marc Thalacker first walked into Central Oregon’s Three Sisters Irrigation District Office in 1988, he was taken aback. The dilapidated office had no running water, a sputtering ...

Irrigation canal seepage management encompasses the careful assessment and mitigation of water losses through the porous canal beds and banks that characterise many traditional and modern irrigation ...

Editor's note: This story ran in Yakima Magazine in March 2019. We are rerunning it in lieu of the "It Happened Here" history column this week because of heightened interest in the canal in light of ...