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Imperial Irrigation District to meet water transfer requirements by stopping canal spills

Posted by: Maven on July 29, 2009 at 7:16 am

From the Imperial Valley Press:

The Imperial Irrigation District is going to need to begin construction on conservation methods by this fall, in order to meet water transfer obligations, according to a workshop Tuesday evening.

“The water must be generated by efficiency conservation,” said Charles Burt, a chairman at CalPoly University that oversees irrigation training and research.

Burt was part of a team that put together the System Conservation Plan, a series of upgrades to IID canals designed to stop spills. The move will save between 60,200 and 74,300 acre-feet per year in water that is otherwise wasted in IID’s canal system. That water will then be transferred to other Southern California water districts as part of the Quantification Settlement Agreement.

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July 29, 2009 · Filed Under Imperial Valley

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