Water Status Map
Our Water Status Map is a helpful tool created for our customers to use to stay updated on the status of their water throughout the water season. To view this map: – Visit our website kid.org – Select the button that says “Water Status Map” – Type your address in the top left corner – Click […]
NBC Right Now Tri-Cities covers Burrowing Animals with Jason McShane
Our Engineering/Operations Manager, Jason McShane speaks about the importance of reporting a burrowing animal, what to look for and how to make a report! Ways to report: Call our office at 509-586-9111 Visit our website kid.org and select the “Report a burrowing animal” button Email us at customerservice@kid.org We appreciate your help, thank you! To watch the […]
Water Conservation Tip
Here’s our Wise Water Wednesday tip of the day! Tips are posted each week on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KennewickIrrigationDistrict/
Automated Control Gates
Our Engineering/Operations team are always researching innovative ways to keep the water moving. To provide a more consistent water delivery, KID has installed a number of automated control gates that allow for KID to fluctuate canal levels to meet our customers’ varied needs. These gates you see also helps us to save water! Stay updated […]
How to report burrowing animal activity
Our Vegetation Management crew are diligent about looking for any signs of ground squirrels near or along our canals and canal roads. Recently, they found these holes from ground squirrels in the area, the holes may begin small but over time can grow and cause great damage. Burrowing animals are an on-going challenge for irrigators. […]
Vegetation Management
During the water season our Vegetation Management team maintains algae, weed growth, burrowing rodents and monitors our water flows. In the video below, you will see a time and travel study that is completed with red tracer dye. Once poured, crews will watch to see how long the dye takes to travel through our canals, […]
Checking the water levels in our canals is a vital part of our district operations.
Checking the water levels in our canals is a vital part of our district operations. The amount of water in our canals can change throughout the day based on our customer’s water usage. To ensure our water levels are where they need to be to operate effectively, field staff are assigned to watch the canals […]
Tip of the day
Here’s our Wise Water Wednesday tip of the day! For more information on ways you conserve water visit: https://kid.org/your-kid/drought-information-2/ To stay updated on the latest news you can also visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KennewickIrrigationDistrict/
Canals are not for play – stay away!
Today, our Public Relations Coordinator Shelbea distributed over 8,000 informational canal safety flyers to all elementary schools within the Kennewick School District. These flyers were created to help spread awareness on canal safety to students and parents. Please remember: Canals are not for play – stay away! For more information please visit: https://kid.org/your-kid/water-safety/ https://www.facebook.com/KennewickIrrigationDistrict/
Our Helping Hands Program
Our Helping Hands program is designed to assist seniors and low income customers in a time of financial need. This year, thanks to our customer donations and allocated KID funds (from late fee revenue), we’ve helped 51 customers pay a portion of their KID assessment bill. We are proud to be one of the only […]