UPDATE FOR OUR 2018 IRRIGATION SEASON

I hope that you are all surviving this smoke filled summer.  I thought that I would give you a brief update on how long I believe we will be running water for our 2018 irrigation season.

We are drawing hard on the reservoirs now and historically July and August are the months with the heaviest demand.  July and August will determine how long we will be able to run the canals.  As of now, we are looking at a mid-September shut off.  I know this isn’t perfect but hopefully that will get us through what has so far been a very demanding season.

Please do the best that you can to stay on rotations.  Also please pay attention to the water when it is your turn, keep your irrigation system maintained and head ditches clean.  We ask that you please be diligent and keep water from running off.

Let’s all do our part and hopefully we will have a successful 2018 irrigation season despite the drought conditions.

Thank you,

Brian Hampson   District Manager 

Please call our office at 541-773-6127 to order your water or to find out your rotation schedule.  Because this is a drought year, please remember to call and tell us if you do not plan to use your water so that we can conserve as much water as possible.

Thanks for Pipeline Funding

The Rogue River Valley Irrigation District is pleased to report that we have received the needed additional funding from the Oregon Legislature to install the Bradshaw Drop Piping Project. We plan on starting to lay pipe later this year and should be finished in 2019.

We want to especially recognize Rep. Pam Marsh for all the assistance she provided in getting the funding restored after our project’s funding was initially approved but then canceled last year. Rep. Marsh worked tirelessly to help communicate the benefits of the project to the leadership of the Legislature as well as the governor’s office in addition to working across the aisle to reach broad bipartisan support for our project.

We also want to thank the environmental groups, local municipalities and agricultural producer organizations among other various local entities whose support was integral to showing that this project had wide-ranging benefits for Southern Oregon.

Brian Hampson, RRVID District Manager

Bryan Baumgartner, Board President

Larry Martin, Board Member

Gerald May, Board Member

RRVID was successful in obtaining $1,895,000.00 from the Oregon General Fund to put toward the Bradshaw Drop Piping Project.  We now believe we  have all of the funding in place to put 3.3 miles of open canal  into pressure rated pipe.  RRVID will be making two stream crossings within the in-stream work period between June 15th and September 15th of 2018.  We will then start putting the rest of the canal in pipe after the 2018 irrigation season has ended which will be around the 1st of October.

Click here for information regarding the Bradshaw Drop Project.

The Board of Directors and Management of the Rogue River Irrigation District are pleased to announce that we have entered into a grant agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation to pipe an approximately 1.2 mile section of the Hopkins Canal from Spring Creek to Antelope Creek. RRVID is also looking to obtain additional grant funding for a connected canal piping project that would allow us to provide pressurized water to our patrons along piped sections of the current Hopkins Canal to Bradshaw Drop. We are also partnering with the Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District (JSWD) to look at opportunities for our patrons to receive assistance in converting from flood to sprinkle irrigation systems. We are excited about the benefits this project will have for our District and its patrons.

For more information click here.

View current reservoir levels at the US Bureau of Reclamation Website

Any water user who owns and/or leases irrigated land totaling 40.1 or more acres west of the Mississippi River must annually (or more often) file RRA forms with the District office prior to receiving irrigation water.

If your landholdings change in any way during the irrigation season, which includes, but not limited to: moving your property into a trust or the passing of one or more of the property owners, then it is imperative that you contact the District office to update your RRA forms.

The August 2018 Board Meeting will be held at the District office at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 14, 2018.  

The meetings are open to the public although we ask that you please contact the office at least one week in advance if you have something to present to the Board so that we can place you on the agenda.