Dryup?

This is a dry canal.

It happens every year at this time. The irrigation districts have to drain the canals completely every so often to be able to maintain them well. They chose to do it this time of year when the need to irrigate is low. So what is that to us? We don't have flood irrigation. Ah, but we do like to brush our teeth, and take a shower. Do you know what this is?

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Does this help?


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Most of the water we drink most of the time comes from the large water treatment plant north of Higley Groves West 1/4 mile. And it gets its water from the canals. It can get the water from either Salt River Project, right next door, or from RWCD, using the laterals. But this time of year we are probably drinking a little more well water and a little less treated river water. Either way, the Town is making sure we always have plenty of clean, safe water in our homes.

The other thing that comes up during dryup is construction. The ditches will not be used for four weeks. That makes it the right time to move, cross, and rebuild those ditches. We have some of that to do. The following picture is of a manhole near the Town Center Lake where the RWCD lateral will make a turn and tie into the existing buried pipe. That will happen during the RWCD dryup, which starts this week, Dec. 15th.