{"id":203,"date":"2012-10-11T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:51:50","slug":"yakima-irrigation-system-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-irrigation-system-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Irrigation System Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Irrigation Supervisor Alvie Maxey \u2013 575-6194<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 15<sup>th<\/sup> marks the end of the irrigation season for the vast majority of residential and business customers in Yakima.\u00a0 That\u2019s the day that the systems operated by the City of Yakima\u2019s Water\/Irrigation Division will be shut off until next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The few other irrigation systems that operate independently from the City systems will also be shutting down in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a good idea for people to spend some time this weekend getting ready for next Monday\u2019s shutdown,\u201d said Irrigation Supervisor Alvie Maxey.\u00a0 \u201cIf they need to do some final watering, they should get that done.\u00a0 People should also winterize their own irrigation systems after the water stops flowing on Monday,\u201d said Maxey.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Yakima has operated an irrigation system since the early 1900s.\u00a0 The system that now exists to deliver water to irrigation customers in Yakima actually consists of 66 individual, smaller systems that were consolidated into a single utility in 1997.\u00a0 Through that utility, the City currently provides irrigation water to about 11,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Irrigation-System-Shut-Down-10-11-12.pdf\">Irrigation System Shut Down (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Irrigation Supervisor Alvie Maxey \u2013 575-6194 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov Monday, October 15th marks the end of the irrigation season for the vast majority of residential and business customers in Yakima.\u00a0 That\u2019s the day that the systems operated by the City of Yakima\u2019s Water\/Irrigation Division will be shut off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}