Highlights

 

The Turnout Water Measurement Program is part of the Newlands Project Water Conservation Plan, which has included projects related to measurement, canal modernization, operational strategy and resource planning, on-farm water management, and remote monitoring SCADA systems.

 

The Water Measurement Program began in 1997, when ITRC was asked to develop a volumetric measurement plan for Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID) funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region.  This program was to develop and install documented and reasonably accurate turnout delivery measurement techniques in the district.

 

Using a modernization evaluation involving a holistic accounting of the current level of system performance and the cost-effectiveness of installing flow measurement devices, ITRC identified recommendations for TCID as part of an updated operational plan.  ITRC identified several water management and hardware options, including:

• Automated control structures

• Communication systems

• Flow measurement devices

• Water level control options

• Recirculation facilities

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