You may recall from earlier in this blog's life that the irrigation water in this county comes from two sources: The pumps on the river and the Owyhee Reservoir.
It has been nearly two weeks since the pumps have been on, and this last weekend they closed the valves at the reservoir.
A day after the valves closed the canal was reduced to a stream. (As shown above.) But the pipes are long and even today, the canal retains a trickle. (That's the below picture. Don't let the pool in the foreground fool you, there's much less water than even a few days ago.)
As the song goes: Times, they are a changin'. The crops are nearly gone, as are the swallows that once called this bridge home. But farming takes place on top of the cycles that most take for granted. And, like the swallows, the water will return next year. Any water the plants get from here until then will have to be by the old fashion way: rain.
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