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Slowngreen
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Well yesterday was officially the last day for irrigation water for my area. A company, Simplot, owns generators at Magic Damn Res. and last fall they found a small oil leak in a tank. Instead of figuring out how to go under water and fix it, they threatened to sue the local Canal Co. for a million bucks a day until they agreed to dump around 30,000 acre sq.ft of the water.
Of course, they agreed because it wouldnt have done anything except make them go out of business and everyone lose their jobs. So this year when water got turned back on it had only raised back up around 15k.
Anyways yesterday it was turned off with only 5k left in the resi. Most of the guys I haul hay for only got one crop. Our oats luckily made it to head but once their cut thats obviously that and now everyone who runs irrigation water for their lawns will need to start likeing the color yellow lol. Sucks.
Bright side is we will have until next May for it to fill as much as possible so hopefully we'll be closer to normal.
Just wanted to share. They screwed everyone over who has water rights this year and apperently theres nothing that can be done about it.
Of course, they agreed because it wouldnt have done anything except make them go out of business and everyone lose their jobs. So this year when water got turned back on it had only raised back up around 15k.
Anyways yesterday it was turned off with only 5k left in the resi. Most of the guys I haul hay for only got one crop. Our oats luckily made it to head but once their cut thats obviously that and now everyone who runs irrigation water for their lawns will need to start likeing the color yellow lol. Sucks.
Bright side is we will have until next May for it to fill as much as possible so hopefully we'll be closer to normal.
Just wanted to share. They screwed everyone over who has water rights this year and apperently theres nothing that can be done about it.