Repairs began Monday on the Salvation Ditch, which was shut off Saturday after a ditch walker spotted water pooling that turned out to be a small sinkhole, an official said. The sinkhole is located in ...

The ditch irrigation system took a lot of maintenance and labor. Syphon tubes needed to be started quickly or the ditch would break out. Weeds and rodents were a problem for ditch irrigation. The ...

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The source of water — and whether there’s enough to go around — is at the heart of concerns about a proposed agritourism development for some local residents and Garfield County officials. Nutrient ...

A big push is underway in Jackson County and Oregon to replace open-ditch irrigation canals with piping to reduce water loss through seepage and evaporation. The mission by irrigation districts to ...

That canal or ditch next to your back yard is not a convenient trash disposal system as a place to dump your lawn clippings, old tires, household trash, or debris from landscaping. That’s the message ...

Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...