SAN LUIS — When the water is flowing down from the mountains, Joe Lobato wakes up most mornings and drives from his home in San Luis to his fields spread across the valley where his family has farmed ...

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A big push is underway in Jackson County and Oregon to replace open-ditch irrigation canals with piping to reduce water loss through seepage and evaporation. The mission by irrigation districts to ...

WHAT: History program on “Flumes, Ditches & Canals, the Irrigation Story,” silent auction, beverages and desserts. Irrigation projects gave rise to agricultural roots such as Corbin Ditch, Newman Lake ...

The source of water — and whether there’s enough to go around — is at the heart of concerns about a proposed agritourism development for some local residents and Garfield County officials. Nutrient ...

In his truck, as he makes his morning rounds of the Mesa County Irrigation District, Dave Voorhees checks a program on his computer tablet that shows him where each property lies, who owns it, and ...

SEQUIM — A group of neighbors, stakeholders and Sequim residents continue to push back against an effort to enclose more than 10,000 feet of original irrigation ditch in pipe through the city and many ...

For well over a century, the Corbett Irrigation Ditch carried water from Tanque Verde Creek to the old Fort Lowell neighborhood, where it nourished farmland and helped to sustain a thick forest of ...

That canal or ditch next to your back yard is not a convenient trash disposal system as a place to dump your lawn clippings, old tires, household trash, or debris from landscaping. That’s the message ...

If you like hiking alongside western Nevada County’s irrigation ditches, you’re on the same page as Sterling Honea, Ron Mathis and Nancy Weber. Or, if you view ditch-side hikers as trespassers who ...