irrigation

Irrigation customers in Yakima that get water via the city's system will be shut off tomorrow (Oct. 13)

The joy of irrigation always brings the occasional hiccup in the first few months of the year. The City Of Prosser is reporting an irrigation outage on some city streets. You can check out list below to see if you are affected by the outage.

BOISE (AP) — A little-known federal program that avoids publicity to protect from looters the thousands of Native American sites it's tasked with managing has been caught up in a big net. The Federal Columbia River System Cultural Resources Program tracks some 4,000 historical sites that also include homesteads and missions in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana...

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell has introduced legislation aimed at ensuring a reliable supply of water for farmers, municipalities, fish, tribes and others in the Yakima River Basin. The Democratic senator from Washington was in Yakima Wednesday to announce a bill that moves ahead with a long-term water management plan for that region...

Work on a revamped irrigation system in the West Valley area is expected to be completed prior to the spring irrigation season in 2015.

In a heavily irrigated Washington valley where fish, crops and people often compete for water, biologists are turning to one of nature's best engineers to help restore streams and salmon habitat. Landowners typically trap or kill beavers that block irrigation canals and flood homes in the Yakima Valley...

Residents who use the Lenox or Ninth Avenue systems of Yakima's irrigation system will notice reduced pressure early this week.