Quote Originally Posted by ESSO82 View Post
Are they paying for the water rights or usage? If not the EPA just saved them a fortune. Digging ponds and or putting in wells is expensive. I bet the power companies are happy though, they probably have to use three phase power for all their pumps.

During most years I fid it hard to believe they will pump 9.6 billion gallons of water but in a dry year maybe. They will likely use drip irrigation lines not overhead pivots. Potatoes are a shallow rooted crop so they are trying to keep the top few inches at a fairly consistent soil moisture.

I would like to see them metered to determine how much the are actually pulling.
There is a huge pivot out here according to the recent pics / video that was shot in the past few weeks.