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Tulelake Irrigation District

 TID

TID monthly meetings, the 2nd Monday
of each month, usually 8pm at TID office.

In 2001, when the Bureau of Reclamation shut off irrigation water to 1400 Klamath Basin Irrigators, California granted TID money for emergency wells to be used to keep crops and/or cover crops alive.

By 2005, the National Marine Fishery Service's Biological Opinion demands over 100,000 acre feet of water from irrigators to be used to raise the lake levels and river flows, contrary to the recommendations of the National Academy of Science. They take stored irrigation water and groundwater. Following are:

Well Reports: water levels and water
pumped by TID wells

 

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels 5/6/08

Tulelake Irrigation District well report 4/17/08

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels from February 22, 2008

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels, posted 1/13/08

Tulelake Irrigation District well water report 12/5/07

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels 11/6/07

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels, 10/27/07

Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels, 10/9/07

Tulelake Irrigation District water levels, posted to KBC 9/29/07, "We are done pumping the wells.  We have more water coming than we can use," said Earl Donosky, TID Manager on 9/20/07.

Tulelake Irrigation District well water report 9/18/07
Tulelake Irrigation District ground water levels, 9/18/07

Tulelake Irrigation District well water pumped 9/1 - 9/10/07
TID well water levels, posted 9/13/07

Tulelake Irrigation District water levels 8/29/07

All TID wells will be turned off by 1:30 PM today (posted August 21, 07). Earl Danosky, Tulelake Irrigation District Manager.

Tulelake Irrigation District well pumping 08/14/07-08/22/07
Tulelake Irrigation District ground water levels through 8/22/07

Tulelake Irrigation District well water update, August 7-14, 2007
Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels 8/14/07. "We will be reducing well pumping this weekend and will shut off all wells by the first of next week," said Earl Donoski, TID manager.

Tulelake Irrigation District well pumping, August 1-7.
TID water levels August 7, 2002