Getting Ready

     Remember how in a previous post it was stated that it took a lot of infrastructure to water a dry place like Owyhee County? Well its true. There are many miles of canals here and quite a few people to take care of them. For now, we'll just call them the ditch company.

     This is what the majority of the canals here look like at the moment. Pretty boring, right? It has been scraped clean so that it is as much canal-shaped as it's going to be. The ditch company has been hard at work making sure this is the case.

     This includes not only the reshaping of canals, but also the burning and spraying of weeds and that's only the a part of a part of their job!
     All of this is in preparation for the day when the pumps will be turned on and the valves opened. The water is coming! Next week in fact. When it gets here, that's when things really get going for the farmers. If you want to hear all about it, you know where to look.