{"id":4863,"date":"2017-09-22T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2017-09-22T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:07:06","slug":"end-2017-irrigation-season-rapidly-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/end-2017-irrigation-season-rapidly-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"End of 2017 Irrigation Season Rapidly Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 13<sup>th<\/sup> marks the end of another irrigation season for residential and business customers served by the City of Yakima&#8217;s irrigation system.\u00a0 That\u2019s the day that the system operated by the City\u2019s Water &amp; Irrigation Division will be shut off until next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The irrigation season in Yakima typically lasts from early April through mid-October.\u00a0 The last flows of irrigation water to City of Yakima customers will stop on October 13<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The Naches Cowiche Canal Company, which provides water to about half of the City&#8217;s irrigation system, will shut down operations for the year on October 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 All other irrigation systems in the area that operate independently from the City system will close for the season by the end of October or early November.<\/p>\n<p>The part of the system that will be affected by the October 1<sup>st<\/sup> shutdown by the Naches Cowiche Canal Company include Maclaren, North 29<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, Englewood, Browne Avenue, Park Lane\/Nob Hill, Capitol Hill, Buena Vista, Bracket Park, 28<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; Clinton Way, 25<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue pump, 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Avenue and 24<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue pumps, Bonnie Doone, Hillcrest, Summitview to Nob Hill from 16<sup>th<\/sup> Ave to Landon Ave, approximately Summitview to Nob Hill, south 30<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, and Arlington to Nob Hill, as well as Lincoln to Englewood from North 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Avenue to North 27<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The City&#8217;s Water &amp; Irrigation Division encourages customers to go through the process of winterizing their own irrigation systems before the water stops flowing.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Yakima has operated irrigation systems since the early 1900s.\u00a0 The system that now exists to deliver water to customers in Yakima actually consists of 66 individual, smaller systems that were consolidated almost 20 years ago into a single utility.\u00a0 Through that utility, the City currently provides 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\/End-of-2017-Irrigation-Season-News-Release.pdf\">End of 2017 Irrigation Season &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 13th marks the end of another irrigation season for residential and business customers served by the City of Yakima&#8217;s irrigation system.\u00a0 That\u2019s the day that the system operated by the City\u2019s Water &amp; Irrigation Division will be shut off until next spring. The irrigation season in Yakima typically lasts from early April through<\/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-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}