The Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (LNID), is going through hurdles at getting water to its customers throughout the district for the second yr in a row.

The LNID, which serves roughly 200,000 acres of irrigated cropland and supplies water for a lot of Alberta’s “feedlot alley,” the most important focus of cattle in Canada, has been shut off attributable to a break on the fundamental canal.

In accordance with a discover despatched to all LNID water makes use of, the district was within the strategy of flushing canals and priming pipelines after they acquired notification of the leakage. On April 28, the district suggested pond fills within the space the place water was obtainable, and as of Could 3, 2023, the difficulty has not been resolved.

The canal leakage occurred previous to the flume from the Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation Major Canal, however as said within the discover, “the district has no thought how lengthy it’ll take to make the required repairs to the principle canal.”

In accordance with sources, the LNID met with Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation on Could 2, 2023, to debate find out how to get water flowing as quickly as attainable however the injury appears to be important and is already not as fast of a restore as initially hoped.

We’ll proceed to replace the story as we study extra.