The Wenatchee Reclamation District (WRD) begins filling their canal system on April 10, 2023. It takes a day or two for the water to travel from the Wenatchee River at Dryden, to and through Wenatchee, across the foot bridge into East Wenatchee, then finally to dump into the WRD’s canal here in East Wenatchee under the road (you can’t see it) at 9th and Eastmont. We let the water settle a bit for a day or two before we open the headgate to charge our system. We plan to charge our system by opening the headgate on Saturday April 15, 2023.

Our 3^nd annual in-person neighborhood meeting (Zoom option available) will be held Saturday, April 8, at 6:00 p.m. in Hank LuBean’s front yard/driveway (or porch if raining) at 1700 North Aurora. This meeting will provide opportunity for you to ask questions and receive any up-to-date information about CVTIA’s activities and issues. This meeting will be less than an hour and will satisfy our goal of having an annual meeting.

The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83654916364?pwd=RHlWTlBTdmZidjFpRVJ4WVEzcVJWdz09

(Meeting ID: 836 5491 6364,     Passcode: 340033)

You are in this association if you are a lot owner and live in the Columbia View Terrace Irrigation Association’s (CVTIA) neighborhood (East Wenatchee – Sunset Hwy to Aurora – 15th to 18th Streets). We have 72 lots (62 lot owners) in our neighborhood. As lot owners we voluntarily maintain and operate our own system separate from the WRD. Your property covenants require (expect) you to be a member of this association and pay dues for its upkeep. Lot owners purchase water from the WRD annually via County property assessments or directly from WRD. WRD delivers the water to our headgate on the canal near the middle of the golf course; our system starts at the headgate; CVTIA owns and maintains everything from the headgate to our homes. We began collecting annual dues in 2021. A notice was sent out on 3/15/23 for this year’s dues.  A copy of the notice is shown below. 

Each lot has a main valve that attaches to the main irrigation lateral lines. Lot owners are responsible for the irrigation piping down-stream of their main valve. The CVTIA administrators Hank and Adam and helpers) maintain the headgate, main valves, main lines, lateral valves, and lateral piping to each lot’s main valve. When we charge our system each spring, we check for leaks and ensure that each lot’s main valves are either closed or under proper control so leaks can be observed. To do this check, we may need to enter your yard and verify that your main irrigation valve or valves are off as well as look for main line and lateral pipe leaks. If you don’t want us in your yard and you can ensure that your main valve is off and that there are no main line leaks, please call or email me to let me know (see below for info), otherwise on Saturday morning about 10:00 a.m. on 4/15/23, you will see a couple of your neighbors wandering through the neighborhood and into each yard, if needed, checking valves and working with lot owners/renters for identifying any leaks or problems. We will attempt to notify you by knocking before entering your property. If you have a locked yard, please leave it open or have someone available to open it for us. If we can’t get in, and if there are leaks, the entire lateral will be shut off until repairs are made; meaning you and your close neighbors won’t have irrigation water until then. Also, those who have not paid their annual dues for this year or any previous year could have their valves closed until they pay us. 

As noted above, as lot owner or lot user (if renting), your lot is automatically a member of our irrigation association and the lot’s property covenant gives the association an easement to maintain the irrigation system as necessary including entering your yard to do so (just like gas, water, electricity, telephone, etc.).

This website was created for our irrigation system. It has detailed information about our irrigation system, check out the site.  You might want to bookmark it for information updates (outages, turn-on / turn-off dates, etc.). The website is:  www.lubean.com/cvtia. (if clicking on this link doesn’t load, try entering the full URL: https://lubean.com/cvtia/ )

We have been doing this annual turn-on action each year for at least six decades. If you have questions, concerns, or information, give me a call on my cell 509-679-4259, email me at: hlubean@gmail.com   or stop by my house at 1700 North Aurora.

I am Hank LuBean, your neighbor and current CVTIA Administrator.