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The Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District Office in Nampa, Idaho, is a 1-story brick and concrete building designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel and completed in 1919. The building features tall, narrow window fenestrations topped by large, vertical keystones with sidestones.
The Surface Water Coalition, including the Twin Falls Canal Company, is the senior water user named in the ongoing water call that requires groundwater users to deliver over 74,000 acre-feet of ...
In 1889, Idaho Mining and Irrigation Company manager Charles H. Tompkins Jr., estimated that the canal would be seventy miles (110 km) in length and irrigate about 350,000 acres (550 sq mi; 1,400 km 2), with an estimated capacity of 2,915 cubic feet (82.5 m 3) per second, but he admitted that only two miles (3 km) of the canal had been completed.
On Thursday evening, the Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment order that could, as soon as Monday, cut off agricultural groundwater pumping in much of Idaho’s prime farmland ...
The Snake River Aquifer is a large reservoir of groundwater underlying the Snake River Plain in the southern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. Most of the water in the aquifer comes from irrigation recharge. Measuring about 400 miles (640 km) from east to west, it is an important water source for agricultural irrigation in the Plain.
Last week, a curtailment order that had cut off groundwater irrigation throughout much of central and eastern Idaho was lifted. The order had been in place for only a short time, so the Gem State ...
The Treasure Valley is a valley in the western United States, primarily in southwestern Idaho, where the Payette, Boise, Weiser, Malheur, and Owyhee rivers drain into the Snake River. It includes all the lowland areas from Vale in rural eastern Oregon to Boise , and is the most populated area in Idaho.
Unfortunately, it appears some have forgotten that eastern Idaho is not the only recipient of this essential resource from the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer — all southern Idaho farmers rely ...