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1999 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
Active Projects

PROJECT INFORMATION:
The Midvale Irrigation District serves about 73,000 acres irrigated by about 700 individual irrigators. There is one incorporated municipality, Pavillion, within the district. The assessments range from $14.50 to $16.05/acre depending on the class of the land. Irrigators within the district typically grow high value crops such as sugar beets, beans, barley, corn and alfalfa hay.

The project was one of the identified options in the Wind River planning efforts that could reduce diversion requirements and increase efficiency by saving water that presently exits the district as operational waste or as flow from the drainage system. The project will conserve 22,000 acre-feet of water by constructing approximately 66,000 lineal feet of pipe. The savings will be realized by delivering irrigation water through gravity pressured pipelines rather than the traditional open canals. The water savings will provide increased carryover in Bull Lake Reservoir or reduced direct flow diversions from the Wind River.

Construction of the project is about 99% complete. The new pipeline was tested in the fall of 1998 and will deliver water beginning with the 1999 irrigation season.

RECOMMENDED LEGISLATIVE ACTION:
No legislative action is required on this project.