Tony Creek

2 CFS Custom Farmers Screen

Quick Facts

  • Location: Dee, Oregon
  • Basin: Hood
  • Owner: Aldrich Ditch Company
  • Partners: Bonneville Power Administration, Specialty Metal Fab, Doug Adams Excavation
  • Funding: Farmers Irrigation District, Aldridge Ditch Company, FCA, and Bonneville Power Administration
  • Installation Date: Summer 2005

This Farmers Screen project addresses the following issues:

This Farmers Screen also screens water for fire hydrants in the area.

View to the completed screen in operation, heavy leaf load obvious.

This Farmers Screen installation replaced an existing non-criteria screen.

Site Challenges:
• Very heavy load of leaves and woody debris.
• Flashy stream.

This Farmers Screen installation replaced an existing non-criteria screen. The intake features a small rock weir that directs water into a head-gate structure with a slide-gate. At the head-gate, the diverted water enters a 300 foot pipeline that delivers water to the screen structure.

The Farmers Screen at this site typically draws 1 CFS of water into the irrigation system. The screened water enters a pipeline that delivers water to orchards and other agricultural uses in Dee, Oregon.

The cleaning water returns to Tony Creek via an open natural channel.


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