Minutes of our 4/4/2026 Annual Yard Meeting

The practice for many years of the Wenatchee Reclamation District (WRD) is to shut off the canal system water that originates in Dryden, Washington sometime around the 10th of October. For 2024, the turn-off will be on October 11, 2024 per the WRD. It takes less than a full day for the canal to evacuate…

Five of our six laterals were turned on Saturday between 1000 and 1100. We discovered a leakage problem on the main lateral at 1611 Anne and it is being worked on. That means that those who live on Anne with ODD addresses, 1611 to 1661 and on Aurora with EVEN addresses, 1602 to 1616 won’t…

The system is up and running with no known problems as of 7/21/23. The irrigation water quality has improved considerably since mid June. Ben and I have been cleaning the filters two and three times a week during the last of May and into June but beginning about July 1st, the need to clean filter…

The Wenatchee Reclamation District (WRD) begins filling their canal system on April 5, 2021. 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…

A piece of cardboard wrapped itself around our headgate intake about 4pm on 4/23/21. It caused water to virtually stop coming in and therefore we lost pressure until I removed the problem this morning at about 0830. All should have water now. Hank

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…