About Us

Put an empty tuna can in your yard and run your sprinklers 1/2 inch in the can should be plenty for your yard per day this is just a guideline you can adjust up or down depending on your type of lawn and the weather. Too much water takes all the nutrients and flushes them out of the soil and into the local water table.

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Providing Irrigation water to approximatley 10,000 acres in three districts<

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East Unit

Services more than 4500 acres of land in East Wenatchee,water is pumped from the columbia river and lifted 677 feet to a regulating reservoir and is distributed throught the district.

Brays Landing

Services about 2000 acres of land 25 miles north of Wenatchee.

_{Howard Flats}

Services around 1000 acres of land in Chelan County northeast of the town of Chelan

We are overseen by five board members which live within the District boundries.

We currently have 7 employees

Secretary / Manager

Assistant Secretary

Office manager

Howard Flats Operator/Electrical

Brays Landing Operator/Electrical

2 East unit Operators/Electrical.

Photo shows District Property Brays Landing

Company History

The District was built by the U.S.Bureau of Reclamation in the 1960's and was intended to water farm crops in 1985-87 the district was expanded and upgraded.The District is constantly trying to upgrade and improve our methods of pumping and delivering water. Water

conservation has been and is a big thing with all irrigation districts,as we move into the future water conservation will continue to be an issue.

Water Rates

Water rates are regulated by the cost to supply water to the users, as costs to pump and deliver water increase the price for water will increase.There are lots of factors that go into the costs of delivery of irrigation water to just list a few would include Power ,Repair ,fuel, Weed control,

regulation, equipment, Administrative, Upgrade

Power

Most of the districts electric motors are powered by the B.P.A. which sells the district power at a rate set by congress.

Repair

We repair water meters on a 3 year rotation basis we rotate our pumps through at least every 7 years and our motors every 5 years. We have several hundred pressure reducing stations, valves, miles of underground pipe, overhead power lines, 9 reservoirs, 7 tanks and numerous other equipment to maintain.

Fuel

7 trucks a large boom truck and a back hoe along with other equipment

Administrative

Meetings for sub divisions, Leagl,

Federal, State, County regulations,

Customer service, records, billing,

Utility Locates,

Upgrade

We are constantly trying to deliver water more efficiently and safely

RATES

The District rates have remained relativly low for the past 30 years and we hope to continue to deliver water at resonable rates. One of the biggest drivers of rate increases are the demands on the district to police district resources with the advent of urbanization we really need to keep ahead of the changes of land use and where our easements are.

Our district has New Ag and Old Ag lands. New is lands in the district after 1985,Old is lands in the district before 1985. this is important because we pay the USBR according to your land classification.

New Ag rates $155.50 including $39.00 account charge

Old Ag $137.50 including $39.00 account charge

LID fees $22.00

Projects

We always have projects in progess, its our way of keeping the district current and in operation.

Currently working on an upgrade to the Howard Flats operating control system. We have gotten a matching funds grant from the USBR to bring the system up to date.

Past projects would include new computer controlled operating systems in the East Unit and Brays Landing

Radio control for the starts and stops of the pumps.

and G.I.S. mapping to bring our old paper maps onto computer which is an on going project.

Look for more information and updates in the future as time will allow.

Greater Wenatchee Irrigation District

Water conservation in action