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The Case for Irrigation Tailwater Reuse in Southern Idaho

Trout, T.J. (1995) The Case for Irrigation Tailwater Reuse in Southern Idaho. Proceedings of the Winter Commodity Schools. 27:93-94.

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Abstract

About half of the irrigated land in southern Idaho is furrow irrigated. With furrow irrigation, a
portion of the irrigation water runs off the tail end of the field. Some runoff is necessary to
adequately irrigate the whole field. In the Magic Valley, farmers run 20% to 50% of their
irrigation water off their fields into tailwater ditches. Twenty percent runoff is about the
minimum possible on the local soils and slopes. Fifty percent indicates poor management.
Average tailwater runoff from a furrow-irrigated farm is about 40% of the water supplied to
the farm.

Item Type: Article
NWISRL Publication Number: 0870
Subjects: Practical farm efficiency
Mass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)
Depositing User: Dan Stieneke
Date Deposited: 20 Nov 2010 21:54
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2016 18:41
Item ID: 645
URI: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/645
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