Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Valmont Industries, Inc. is a large, publicly held American manufacturer of Valley center pivot and linear irrigation equipment, windmill support structures, lighting and traffic poles and steel utility poles. Their corporate office is in Omaha, Nebraska. Their plant and aviation department is in Valley, Nebraska.
The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) is an irrigation district that serves the Imperial Valley and a large portion of the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert region of Southern California. Established under the State Water Code, the IID supplies roughly 500,000 acres (200,000 ha) of Imperial Valley farmland with raw Colorado River water ...
The Pueblo people of the Rio Grande valley had developed initial irrigation systems in the Rio Grande valley by the 10th century AD. [2] These systems used a main acequia (shared irrigation ditch) into which water was diverted from the river, with secondary ditches leading off the main channel named for specific families.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Irrigation Command Area (Gross): 569,000 hectares (5,690 km 2) Irrigation Potential Created: 364,000 hectares (3,640 km 2) Canals: 2,494 km (1,550 mi) 30,000 hectares (300 km 2) of land in the upper valley is being irrigated, every year by lift irrigation with the water available from 16,000 (approx) check dams constructed by DVC.
Aug. 17—Thousands of irrigation customers will lose water after dwindling supplies force the Talent Irrigation District and Medford Irrigation District to shut off water to their canals Friday.
Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company Flume No. 6, near Cortez, Colorado, was built in 1921.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. [1]It is a creosote and wood-frame construction, built by the Montezuma Canal Co. and the Continental Pipe Manufacturing Co. [1]
Collins Lake's founding organization, Browns Valley Irrigation District (BVID), was established in 1888. Demand for irrigation water in the area quickly exceeded availability. As early as 1919 BVID began exploring the idea of damming the water flowing through Virginia Ranch in order to satisfy Browns Valley and Loma Rica.