irrigation

Boaters, recreationists, and irrigators should prepare for changing river flows below the reservoirs and the rapid lowering and refilling of Guernsey Reservoir.

Thanks to a chemical shortage at a water treatment plant, Casper and surrounding areas are under a water restriction.

Those guidelines and an overlapping drought contingency plan will expire in 2026.

Encore Green Environmental will apply about 7,000 barrels of the treated water to private farmland.

Officials are looking into options for a permanent fix, including installing a fiberglass tube or rerouting the irrigation system.

The cost to repair the century-old tunnel is nearing $4 million.

The 14-foot-wide tunnel that collapsed July 17 is part of a system that delivers water in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Ricketts says he's been in frequent contact with Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and state lawmakers from the area.

District officials say it is a temporary plan to save this year's harvest of corn, sugar beets and other crops.

More than 100,000 acres of farmland in southeastern Wyoming and the Nebraska panhandle is in jeopardy of going dry after an irrigation tunnel collapsed last week. The canal, which supplies irrigation water to Goshen County, apparently collapsed early July 17 roughly a mile south of Fort Laramie...