webfoot
Well-known member
Melting snow means high water when there is a lot of snow. The river is supposed to be to the left of the trees in the first picture. It should also be about 5 feet shallower. From the looks of the corral I should be raising rice or water buffalo. Maybe both. The mud puddles in the driveway have grown with assistance from the river. The head gate on the irrigation ditch is closed. But there is so much water running over it that the ditch can't handle all of it. Water it running out of the ditch back into the river. Ditch to the right and river to the left. The 3 foot culvert under the driveway can't handle all the flow from the ditch so it is also running over the driveway. We have genuine "flood irrigation" in the front field. Good thing there isn't any hay left in the stack yard because the bottom bales would be sitting in 8-10 inches of water. Actually me and all of the neighbors have every tap wide open. We need to relieve pressure in the ditch. There is a lot more water going down the ditch than it was designed to handle. We don't want the dike to wash out. That would create even more problems. One of the good things is the down the ditch guys aren't complaining that we are taking too much water.
