TCID Suspends Flood Operations

  Staff report -- Officials at the Truckee Carson Irrigation District announced today that the district is officially out of flood operations for this water season. Additionally, as of yesterday, May 16, 2019 spread water deliveries have been discontinued. According to Kelly Herwick, watermaster, “spread water has ended as of midnight last night, but it is not out of the scope of possibilities that we could go back into a spread situation.” Based on current modeling by the Bureau of Reclamation Herwick said “the bureau decided to take us out of flood operations. It depends on Mother Nature, if we have a rain or snow event there is still quite a bit up there and it could come off fast.” In the case of a weather event, flood operations could be re-implemented and the district would start back up with spread water deliveries. “But it looks like it will be a slow melt,” said Herwick, “if inflows exceed our outflows, we’ll go back to flood operations.”   Never miss a meeting or community event – keep an eye on the community calendar at https://www.thefallonpost.org/events/ If you like what we’re doing, please support our effort to provide local, independent news and contribute to The Fallon Post, your online news source for all things Fallon.