Executive Director Michael Hagman discusses adapting to today’s water supply challenges and groundwater recharge in September 2024’s Irrigation Leader magazine.

“When I first got to the [Lindmore Irrigation] district, my job was to take the [CVP] allocation…deliver it to the 25,000 assessed acres, charge them for it, spend money to keep the system going, and report profits and losses. That routine has changed substantially since then. 

When it is a wet year, we take all the water we can to store it underground…My job now has the added complexity of running a recharge program, getting as much water from the CVP into our system as we can, and maxing out the queue on gravity pipelines that run water to our landowners. Often, our agricultural demand is close to zero, but we are maximizing our gravity lines to the recharge basins.” 

– Michael Hagman, Irrigation Leader, Volume 15 Issue 8

Read the full interview here.