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Irrigation from 4 Lower Snake River Reservoirs by farms and agricultural users by Reed Burkholder Breaching Dams to Save Idaho's Salmon & Steelhead - 1993

Reservoir	Farm	Acres Irrigated	Pumping Head
Lower Granite		0
Little Goose		0
Lower Monumental		0
Ice Harbor	Elmer Rada	--	462 feet
Ice Harbor	Alvin Harris	--	? feet
Ice Harbor	Darrel Klundt	300	300 feet
Ice Harbor	WSDNR	520	440 feet
Ice Harbor	Flat Top Ranch	540	26 feet
Ice Harbor	Broetje Orchards	2,100	26 feet
Ice Harbor	Snake River Vineyards	2,750	462 feet
Ice Harbor	T & R Farms	3,200	~400 feet
Ice Harbor	Burbank Ranch	3,800	260 feet
Ice Harbor	Hilltop Farms	3,814	445 feet
Ice Harbor	Ice Harbor Farms	4,500	462 feet
Ice Harbor	Carr/Parker Farms	3,400	415 feet
		1,300	350 feet
Ice Harbor	Agri Northwest	10,000	560 feet
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Ice Harbor	13 Farms	36,224 acres

All of these agricultural reservoir users are pumping their irrigation water. There are no canals delivering flood irrigation water from diversions on the Lower Snake.

Water is pumped from the top of the full reservoir to cropland 20-560 feet above the surface of the reservoir.

Comparisons to the 36,224 total irrigated acres:

• This is 55 square miles of the equivalent of a strip of land 1.7 miles wide along the entire 32 mile length of Ice Harbor Reservoir.

• This is an area 16% of the size of the irrigated land in Canyon County, Idaho. Canyon County, home of Nampa and Caldwell, has 215,279 acres of irrigated farmland. (source: 1992 Census of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Commerce, pages 162-167)

• Washington's total cropland is about 6,500,000 acres. The 35,000 irrigated acres which use Ice Harbor water amount to roughly 1/2 of 1% of Washington's total cropland.