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Home My WebLink AboutRE: Irrigation Season Mike Plane From:Rob Bohling Sent:Tuesday, March 29, 2022 08:53 To:Joshua J. Palmer Subject:RE: Irrigation Season That should work Josh. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "Joshua J. Palmer" <jpalmer@tfid.org> Date: 3/29/22 8:19 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org>, Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org> Subject: Re: Irrigation Season Sounds good. Anyone opposed to the edits below: DRAFT: Pressurized Irrigation Customers to Begin Receiving Water May 2; Curtailment In Effect Homes connected to the City of Twin Falls’ Pressurized Irrigation system (PI) will begin receiving water April 25 and all subdivisions are expected to be operating May 2. Residents connected to PI are encouraged to check sprinkler systems for breaks and set watering schedules to avoid overwatering. The process of charging and activating the City’s 22 PI stations can take up to one week to complete. Residents can check the status of their subdivision’s pressurized irrigation on the city’s website at tfid.org and selecting ‘Pressurized Irrigation Update.’ Due to severe drought conditions, the Twin Falls Canal Company will start the 2022 irrigation season by delivering 5/8” to City Pressurized Irrigation Stations. Residents should expect additional curtailments, depending on drought conditions. Homeowners who winterized their sprinkler systems will need to access a valve — generally near the sidewalk — for water to flow from the city pressurized irrigation lines to the home’s sprinkler system. Once activated, residents should check for damaged sprinkler heads, ‘bulging’ lawn turf that may indicate an underground leak, and spots that feel spongy due to overwatering. Residents should schedule watering times over a 24-hour period to avoid overwhelming and shutting down pressurized irrigation stations. When too many homeowners irrigate at the same time — typically during mornings and evenings — the station serving the subdivision will shut down to prevent burnout. When this occurs, customers will receive little or no water to their sprinklers systems. 1 The city’s pressurized irrigation system reduces demand on the aquifer’s limited water supply by utilizing canal water for non-potable purposes — on average it has reduced Twin Falls’ demand on the aquifer by nearly 5 million gallons per day. Pressurized irrigation water is not safe to drink, as it comes from an open canal system and it is not treated. For more information about pressurized irrigation, please visit the city’s website at tfid.org or call 208-736-2275 Rob can I swing by the Public Works Emporium at 2:30 today to shoot the video? From: Robert Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 7:05 AM To: Palmer Joshua <jpalmer@tfid.org>, Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org> Subject: RE: Irrigation Season th WE will start working on them the 25 of April Josh. That’s when Canal Co will open our headgates and some of them will be able to be turned on then. We will work on them from that date forward until they are all on and running. I’m free later today if you want to do a video. Thanks, From: Joshua J. Palmer <jpalmer@tfid.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 7:00 AM To: Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org>; Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Subject: Re: Irrigation Season nd Sounds good. Rob, is that May 2 date okay? Also, do you have 5 or 10 minutes today for a quick YouTube video? From: Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org> Date: Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:02 PM To: Palmer Joshua <jpalmer@tfid.org>, Robert Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Subject: RE: Irrigation Season I like it assuming the dates are correct. Thanks Josh! Joshua R. Baird city engineer | city of twin falls phone: (208) 735-7273 jbaird@tfid.org From: Joshua J. Palmer <jpalmer@tfid.org> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 4:18 PM 2 To: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Cc: Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org> Subject: Re: Irrigation Season Rob; Sorry this took so long… crazy day. Can you look over the draft below and let me know of any changes that need to be made? Thanks! DRAFT: Pressurized Irrigation Customers to Begin Receiving Water May 2; Curtailment In Effect Homes connected to the City of Twin Falls’ Pressurized Irrigation system (PI) will begin receiving water May 2. Residents connected to PI are encouraged to check sprinkler systems for breaks and set watering schedules to avoid overwatering. All subdivisions on city irrigation are expected to have pressurized water no later than Monday, May 2. Residents can check the status of their subdivisions pressurized irrigation on the city’s website at tfid.org and selecting ‘Pressurized Irrigation Update.’ Due to severe drought conditions, the Twin Falls Canal Company will start the 2022 irrigation season by delivering 5/8” to City Pressurized Irrigation Stations. Residents should expect additional curtailments, depending on drought conditions. Homeowners who winterized their sprinkler systems will need to access a valve — generally near the sidewalk — for water to flow from the city pressurized irrigation lines to the home’s sprinkler system. Once activated, residents should check for damaged sprinkler heads, ‘bulging’ lawn turf that may indicate an underground leak, and spots that feel spongy due to overwatering. Residents should schedule watering times over a 24-hour period to avoid overwhelming and shutting down pressurized irrigation stations. When too many homeowners irrigate at the same time — typically during mornings and evenings — the station serving the subdivision will shut down to prevent burnout. When this occurs, customers will receive little or no water to their sprinklers systems. The city’s pressurized irrigation system reduces demand on the aquifer’s limited water supply by utilizing canal water for non-potable purposes — on average it has reduced Twin Falls’ demand on the aquifer by nearly 5 million gallons per day. Pressurized irrigation water is not safe to drink, as it comes from an open canal system and it is not treated. For more information about pressurized irrigation, please visit the city’s website at tfid.org or call 208-736-2275 From: Robert Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 1:53 PM To: Andrew Henderson <ahenderson@tfid.org>, Armando Aspeytia <aaspeytia@tfid.org>, Brent Sanders <BSanders@tfid.org>, Chris Milam <cmilam@tfid.org>, Dustin Peterson <dpeterson@tfid.org>, Justin Ash <jash@tfid.org>, Masyn Malmstrom <MMalmstrom@tfid.org>, Paul Benavidez <pbenavidez@tfid.org>, Phil Bowman <pbowman@tfid.org>, Roger Horton <RHorton@tfid.org>, Rustin Thompson <rthompson@tfid.org>, Shawn Shropshire <sshropshire@tfid.org>, Uriah Holloway <UHolloway@tfid.org>, Keith Simmons <ksimmons@tfid.org>, Kody Reinstein <KReinstein@tfid.org>, Mona Richmond <mrichmond@tfid.org>, Paul Steen <psteen@tfid.org>, Austin Allen <AAllen@tfid.org>, Drew Foster <DFoster@tfid.org>, Jeff Malina <Jmalina@tfid.org>, Ryan Baumann <Rbaumann@tfid.org> Cc: Palmer Joshua <jpalmer@tfid.org>, Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org> Subject: Irrigation Season 3 Afternoon, th The Canal Co will deliver water (5/8” to start) to the City PI stations on April 25. We will start to turn on PI stations after that date as water clears up from charging the system. As always we will get them up and running as soon as we can, but it will be into first or second week of May probably before we have them all on and running steady. We always seem to have leaks to fix and will be down a full crew at start-up this year. Josh Palmer, can we run some media info on this in the next few weeks leading up to this date? People will be screaming if it turns off hot now. Thanks, 4