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Farm manager Zack Stuller makes a call and looks on as Jacob Serna operates a backhoe to build a temporary groundwater basin in Tulare County. The Lindmore Irrigation District is also working to sink water to help area growers.
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to build up credit for the future. And there’s a pos- sibility that when I get this crop off, I will take out more trees and double the size of the pond.” In the past, he has purchased water at $1,700 an acre-foot to get through the season. Considering the difference in price, installing a small proj- ect is common sense and a cushion for future lean times. “There are a lot of growers with their head in the sand who are not thinking about this water situa- tion enough,” he said. “But it’s going to become our reality.” Atkinson said he also used the inexpensive wa- ter for frost protection, running it through his mi- cro sprinklers. “I didn’t really need to have water out there, but it was so cheap we threw it out on the ground,” he said. Farmer Craig Hornung, who also works as di- rector of technical services at AC Foods, is over- seeing four recharge projects for the company. The company recently closed escrow on prop- erty it purchased specifically for construction of a permanent sinking basin. To capitalize on the uncontrolled season water, though, Hornung quickly turned the piece into a temporary basin by adding berms. “It’s like building a car as we’re driving it down the road,” he said. The goal is to sink an acre-foot of water per acre per day. The projects have been a learning curve, but modifications he’s made include deep-ripping ground to encourage water to percolate and using gated pipe — aluminum pipe used mainly for send- ing water down furrows of row crops — along the side of the field to evenly spread water throughout. Taking a proactive approach to capturing water to balance out dry years is gaining momentum with increased recognition of wet year-dry year cycles in the state’s weather patterns. Mike Hagman, general manager of Lindmore Irrigation District in southeastern Tulare County, said growers in his district are now building tem- porary and permanent basins alike. The district has also purchased land to build its own basins to sink water on behalf of all growers. Typically, the district’s irrigation system would be “off” to perform winter maintenance as irrigation is rare in colder months. But with the arrival of uncontrolled season
water, the system is on and growers are paying $75 an acre-foot. “Our objective now is to run that bugger all the time and try to get as much water in the ground as we can,” said Hagman, who is also executive director of the East Kaweah GSA. The east side of Tulare County “is in deep trou- ble,” he said, as the area has reached minimum thresholds on water quality and sustainability in the basin due to overdrafting. “This water is a god- send for us. We needed this precipitation to avert real disaster,” Hagman said. Exeter Irrigation District manager Gene Kilgore agreed. “What this does is buy us some time,” he said. “Otherwise, it was going to get ugly. In 35 years in the water business, I’ve never seen two wet years back to back. Knowing this, I am asking my grow- ers to look at their operations and ask themselves how they can be more sustainable.” Kilgore said steps include fallowing ground, switching from permanent plantings to row crops or using open ground for recharge. Hornung, who serves as vice chair of the East Kaweah GSA, said he anticipates more uncontrolled season water to be released, considering the size of the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which topped 200% of average in a Feb. 1 snow survey. “My thought is that you have to be prepared every year,” Hornung said. “Every grower needs to do this because we are going to have to re- charge this groundwater. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be overnight. If we’re going to survive in the SGMA world, it’s something we’re going to have to do.” As for Stuller, winter months are typically quiet for the land development side of his business, so he said he is grateful for the extra work of building temporary and permanent sinking basins. “There will be more releases in the future, and growers need to think about that going forward,” he said. “It’s a tough pill to swallow to set aside a spot on their ranch for recharge, considering the price of land. But if every grower could do this, we could sink a lot of water.” (Lisa McEwen is a reporter in Tulare County. She may be contacted at mcewenlisamarie@gmail.com.)
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