Minutes of Yard Meeting of 4/5/2025

I have been collecting data on our water usage. I found time to put the data into chart form for your use in selecting the time of day to water your yards. The charts were prepared in a daily format. Use the ‘Daily Use Charts’ Menu item to see the charts. You can see on…

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…

On 4/23/23 a problem was encountered with the lateral valve feeding houses on Aurora (West side) and Anne (East side) from addresses 1600 to 1700. The problem is the lateral’s 3-inch gate valve started to leak from the valve body not the valve stem. The leaking problem is not able to be fixed without digging…

The practice for many years of the Wenatchee Reclamation District is to turn off water into the canal system that originates in Dryden, Washington sometime around the 10th of October. For 2021, the turn-off will be on October 8, 2021. It takes less than a full day for the canal to evacuate to the point…

The Wenatchee Reclamation District (WRD) begins filling their canal system on April 8, 2024. 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…

The CVTIA (Columbia View Terraces Irrigation Association) annual meeting for 2025 will take place on April 5, 2025 in Hank LuBean’s front yard (or porch) at 6:00 p.m. The meeting agenda will be on the CVTIA website (lubean.com/cvtia) and handed out at the meeting. Irrigation turn-on for 2025 will be on April 12, 2025 (the…