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Deer Creek Irrigation District Ditch Conversion

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Area: 5888268 km2
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Brazil; Peru; Suriname; France; Colombia; Guyana; Bolivia; Venezuela; Ecuador
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Santa Cruz; Manaus; La Paz
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Countries: United States of America
Basins: North Pacific (446) (San Joaquin & Sacramento)
Project SDGs:
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Increase Access to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (SDG 6.1 & 6.2)
Water Quality (SDG 6.3)
Integrated Water Resource Management (SDG 6.5)
Protect and Restore Ecosystems (SDG 6.6)
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Safe, Affordable Water
Progress to Date: 0 Overall increase in WASH services
Services Needed: No services needed/offered
Desired Partner: NGO / Civil Society
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Jan. 01, 2016  »  Ongoing
Project Website: www.fishhabitat.org/waters-to-watch/detail/mill-creek-and-de...
Contextual Condition(s): Quality
Additional Benefits: Other
Beneficiaries: Ecosystems
Planning & Implementation Time: 1 - 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $10,000 - $50,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: pool
Project Challenges: Other
Project Source: Other
Profile Completion: 92%

Project Overview

Successful survival and recruitment of salmonids require freshwater migration corridors that function sufficiently to provide adequate passage. For this reason, freshwater migration corridors are considered to have high conservation value and are of utmost priority for restoration in Mill and Deer Creek watersheds within this critical decade. Project partners are converting an irrigation ditch network to a closed pipe system that can reduce existing diversion by about 9.9 CS…

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Successful survival and recruitment of salmonids require freshwater migration corridors that function sufficiently to provide adequate passage. For this reason, freshwater migration corridors are considered to have high conservation value and are of utmost priority for restoration in Mill and Deer Creek watersheds within this critical decade. Project partners are converting an irrigation ditch network to a closed pipe system that can reduce existing diversion by about 9.9 CSF. Assuming 60% of this amount could be dedicated to instream flow - over a 180-day irrigation season, this would have save 2,117 acre-feet/year. Savings will be higher if the final plan includes some form of groundwater exchange and/or aquifer storage to supplement spring and fall flows.

Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: Quality
Project Benefits: Other
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Ecosystems
Months & Implementing: 1 - 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $10,000 - $50,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Pool funding (i.e., joint funding of several partners)
Challenges: Other

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BEF scopes, develops, supports, and designs environmental water programs and projects across the U.S. The organization has been instrumental in building an NGO-led environmental water stewardship movement around Western Water issues and volumetric flow solutions. BEF collaborated in the creation … Learn More

Val Fishman
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