Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - [Kennewick, WA] - The Kennewick Irrigation District will be shutting the Edison Line down this evening to do a structural investigation of the integrity of the pipe located underneath the railroad tracks.  Later on this month, the District will be doing work to reinforce this pipeline which is over 50 years old.

The canal will be shut down at approximately 1:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.  Depending on your location, some customers will have water until approximately 5:00 a.m.  At 6:00 a.m., the District will cut the line and film the area with a camera.  It will take approximately four hours to do all the work and put everything back together.  Water should be available to all customers by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening.

Approximately 5,184 parcels are within the boundaries of the Edison Street services interruption area.

Areas that will be affected are from 10th Avenue, down Edison Street, over to Olympia Street.  These include the following Pressurized Service Areas:  4, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, 29, 30, 34, 50, 53, 57, 58, 60, 74, 78, 87, 90, 95, 97, 100, 101, 115, 116, 124, 125, 140, 143, 144, 152, 154, 160 and parts of 117.

Private line areas affected are from 10th Avenue to Canal and from Kellogg Street to Olympia Street.

The District wants to encourage homeowners to irrigate between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.  This will spread the demand for water out which will provide better water pressure to all water users.

For additional information, please call Customer Service at 509-586-9111.

June 30, 2010 - [Kennewick, WA] - The Kennewick Irrigation District is experiencing a large amount of moss in several of the canals. In some areas the moss is restricting water flow causing low water pressure and plugging pump stations and agricultural weir boxes.

The District is continuing to treat the canals with chemicals to reduce the moss growth and to kill what already exists. The District will be making extra patrols to clean weed screens and pump station filters. The District is also asking all customers to clean their personal filters on a regular basis.

June 16, 2010 - The Kennewick Irrigation District received a call at 5:27 a.m. that the Columbia Irrigation District’s (CID) main canal broke by Columbia Park Trail and Rockwood Street (Hillswest Estates).

The Kennewick Irrigation District receives a portion of their irrigation water from the CID’s canal system which supplies service to four pressurized areas (953 parcels); affected are (see map):
•    PSA 005 – Lampson Homesites
•    PSA 006 – Tri-City Heights #1
•    PSA 082 – Garber’s Addition
•    PSA 117 – Olmstead (including the private line within this system)

Ray Poland and Sons has been contracted repair the breach; however, they have to wait until the water has completely drained from the canal. CID anticipates it may take one week to repair but it’s still to early to predict when service will be restored.

For additional information please contact Columbia Irrigation District at 509-586-6118 or KID Customer Service at 509-586-9111. Please visit the KID website at www.kid.org or the CID website at www.columbiairrigation.com for up to date information regarding this break. You can also read more about this story online from the Tri-City Herald at www.tri-cityherald.com .