KXO RADIO - Imperial Irrigation District - Water Department gets some water for payback

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Todays is : Friday, 05 September 2008

Written by George Gale
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
( The Imperial Irrigation District gets some water to payback some on their over-run)…Water Department Manager Michael King said the over-run was last year, when the District used around 17,000 acre feet more water than they were allotted. King told the IID Board of Directors Tuesday he had requested the Bureau Of Reclamation allow the IID to be credited with the unused apportionment of Metropolitan Water District and Nevada 2005 entitlement. He said since the IID was the only District to request the unused apportionments, the Bureau agreed, but said they had to split the Nevada apportionment with the state of Arizona. King said that means the IID was given 4,000 acre-feet of water to be used in the payback of last years over-run. King said it was not a lot, but it knocks down the IID payback to 13,000 acre-feet.