Irrigation Resources

see also: Online Resources: Irrigation and Water Management

Weekly Soil Moisture Loss Reports for the Northern Sacramento Valley
Allan Fulton, UCCE Tehama Co. Evapotranspiration estimates for crops and rainfall during the current irrigation season
Irrigation Mobile lab (pdf)
Provides water management assistance to growers: Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Yolo, Colusa, Solano Counties, 2006. (1 p.)
Orchard Practices for Protecting Surface Water (pdf)
Coalition for Urban/Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES) (18 pp.) file size: 9 MB
Fertigation with Microirrigation
Blaine Hanson, et al., UCCE. 2006. (49 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 21620. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase

Reducing Runoff from Irrigated Lands Series

Erodibility of Agricultural Soils, with Examples in Lake and Mendocino Counties (pdf)
Anthony Toby O'Geen, Rachel Elkins, Davis Lewis, G. Stuart Pettygrove, UCCE. (9 pp) 2006. UC ANR Pub. 8202

Orchard Floor Management Practices to Reduce Erosion and Protect Water Quality (pdf)
Anthony Toby O'Geen, Rachel Elkins, Davis Lewis, UCCE. (6 pp.) 2006. UC ANR Pub. 8194
Storing Runoff from Winter Rain (pdf)
Larry Schwankl, Terry Prichard and Blaine Hanson, UCCE. 2007. (3 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8211
Understanding Your Orchard's Water Requirements (pdf)
Larry Schwankl, Terry Prichard, Blaine Hanson and Rachel Elkins, UCCE. 2007. (10 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8212
Measuring Irrigation Flows in a Pipeline (pdf)
Blaine Hanson, Larry Schwankl and Terry Prichard, UCCE. 2007. (4 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8213
Causes & Management of Runnoff from Surface Irrigation in Orchards (pdf)
Larry Schwankl, Blaine Hanson and Terry Prichard, UCCE. 2007. (3 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8214
Managing Existing Sprinkler Irrigation Systems (pdf)
Larry Schwankl, Terry Prichard and Blaine Hanson, UCCE. 2007. (4 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8215
Soil Intake Rates and Application Rates in Sprinkler-Irrigated Orchards (pdf)
Larry Schwankl, Terry Prichard and Blaine Hanson, UCCE. 2007. (4 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 8216