Doing it right: New pumping house is the beginning of a wetter future
The six pumps of the EL 47.5 water delivery system — five 1,250 horsepower pumps and one 700 horsepower pump — can deliver over 63,000 gallons of irrigation water per minute, according to East Columbia Basin Irrigation District Board of Directors President Duaine Anderson.
Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald
Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, speaks May 27 at the formal opening of the EL 45.7 pump house. The system will provide Columbia River irrigation water from the East Low Canal to around 8,500 acres of farmland northeast of Warden in Adams County.
WARDEN — The dust that filled much of the sky over Grant and Adams counties May 27 was a stark reminder for many of the need to finish the Columbia Basin Project.
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