The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-11-14
Ask Reclamation Depart
ment for Aid in Keeping
Up Highlands Irriga-
ton Pumping Plant.
MOULTON MAKES
COMPLETE PLAN
Will Add 400 Acres to
that Getting Water
from Present Plant

Owing to the critical situation
existing on the Kennewick High
lands, a part of the Kennewick
unit of the Yakima Project, and
owing to the uncertainty and ap-
uarent difficulties lying in the way
Of immediate relief resulting from
construction of the entire unit at
this time, the Directors of the
Highland Water Users Association
and the Directors Of the Kennewick
Irrigation District have instruct
ed me to submit for your consider
alton a proposal for the relief of
the existing situation. This, in our
opinion, can be accomplished in
manner which will enable US to re-
pay the cost thereof and to secure
adequate water without an increase
N the present annual per acre cost.
Therefore, acting under the in
sructions of the joint Boards, /
have the following facts and sug-
gestions to submit:
1. The condition on the Kenne-
wick Highlands has been growing
steadily worse until we are now
threatened with the total abandon
ment of considerable areas, which
threatened abandonment consti-
tutes a menace to the entire COM
munity.
2. The foundation of our diff
Guilty lies in the following:
(a) insufficient water result
ing in low production.
(b) Uncertainty with reference
to the future.
(cl The immediate necessity of
reconstruction of considerable por-
ions of the system in order to
continue deliveries at the present
rate.
(d) The fact that one 24-inch
pipe line is practically out of COM
mission and must be renewed with
tn the next two years at the out
ude. 1t should be renewed at this
time.
8. Water can he made available
n the Columbia canal, from which
tie present supply is drawn.
4. The delivery of sufficient wa
ter upon the land will necessitate a
flight increase In the capacity of
the Columbia canal, which is the
source of our supply, which in
crease can be accomplished at a
moderate cost, an increase in the
pump capacity, an increase in the
apacity of the discharge pipes and
Improvement of the canal distri-
| button.
5. The lands at present under
cultivation are supplied by two lat
sral canals, known as the high
hit canal and the low lift canal.
The high lift canal is identical ili
location with what is known as the
mghline lateral, which comprises
q part of the system of the Kenne-
wick Unit when ultimately con-
\ structed.
s. There is within the original
highlands project and under the
nigh lift canal an area of splendid
hnd, comprising approximately
400 acres, easily irrigable there
nom. This added to the land now
mder cultivation would form a
@mpact area of approximately
1000 acres.
Z The cost of obtaining addi-
nonal water and increasing the
pump capacity for the delivery of
SUFFICIENT water into the canals
ior the irrigation of the lands now
under cultivation, including a few
uacts recently abandoned, will
e approximately $4,000. This
aoes not include any sum for the
Alargement of the distribution
system.
9. The cost of obtaining suffi-
uent water and increasing the
pump and pipe capacity to q suffi-
oentextent to enable us to deliver
mo the canal enough water for the
WY acre area will be approx
nately $4,000. The installation
= modern pumps and larger pipes
sll give us higher degree of eff
,siency, resulting in the delivery
Y sufficient water at an annual
Er acre cost for power only slight
IN excess of the present per
acre cost.
- The present annual mainten-
Sice and repair bill necessitated
~ tne bad condition of the irri-
ssnon 0o works is approximately
NVV0 in excess of that which
/ tenn. ~ q Ao" %
~. The annual per acre cost of
operatlon, exclusive of power and
.saciuslve of extraordinary MAIN
ananee and repairs, will be no
sieater for 1000 acres than it is at
present for the 26OO acres. The
same employees and management
an handle 1000 acres as easily as
Iey now handle 26O0 acres. Amy
sooitlonal lands would be included
q the same boundaries as sur
,uund the present 2600 acres and
asould be irrigated from exactly
We same system.
II. The cost of operating a
Hant, exclusive of power, design
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