Water Starts To Flow For Roza Irrigation

The 2018 irrigation season got underway for the Roza District Thursday.  Roza began Yakima River diversions into the 95 mile long main canal.  Crews also used the new reregulation reservoir north of Sunnyside for the first time Thursday.  The reservoir allows the canal to be primed at a point 55 miles down the system.

Water deliveries will begin by the middle of next week.  Travel time from Roza dam to the bottom of the system is over four days.

Over 9 miles of lateral canals were piped this past winter.  Roza was able to use grant funds from the state and federal governments to seal the concrete in over a mile and a half of concrete lined sections of the main canal. Over a half mile of geotech canal liner was installed in terrace Heights as well. Doing so reduces leakage and allows the district to be more water efficient.

Roza provides irrigation water to 72,000 acres from east Selah to Benton City.

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