Spring run-off??

[ProFarmer]

So what if your ditch got constucted in the fifties. People that owned the land that i have now did not have the forward vision to drain. But when i bought the land they wanted to be paid for every slough and pothole. I am retreiving what is mine. We have ditches dug in the fifties on land DU or Wildlife concerns own. Try and get that cleaned out.

[fjlip]

It was totally reconstructed in 1988 during the "dry" year.
It has been wet all the last 3 years, only a track hoe could be used, but costs would be crazy.
I say it is just too small a project, so if permits would be applied for, they would be denied or would need controls to slow flow during runoff.
None of this orderly drainage is happening. Every man for himself attitude is creating a mess. This is happening all over.
Hopperbin do you have permits for post 1981 ditches?

[ProFarmer]

Why is your ditch any better with a permit. In manitoba you are supposed to have a permit but in order to get one you have to ask all neighbors down stream for permission. I have never been asked from all my upstream neighbors so it is a free forall. The NDP in manitoba are only concerned about protecting the land inside the floodway. Not of the lively hood of the farmers. DU properties are a breeding ground for beavers and yes they love holding water back but a full marsh doenot hold any more water than one drained.They should be dumped in the fall and then allowed to hold next years spring water till mid summer.

[sumdumguy]

Has anyone heard a boo out of Sask Water
about spring run-off predictions? Sure hope they
are letting water out of Rafferty this time.

[sumdumguy]

The Regina Plains around Lajord, Riceton,
Lewvan would be full of bullrushes if not for
controlled ditching projects but the water has a
channel out as in Wascana Creek, but I am told
that the water from Stoughton and Fillmore areas
has been ditched South to Lampman and that
water has no where to go. That's the problem,
when farmers drain their sloughs and there is no
Wascana Creek to take it away and farmers
downstream get 12 feet of water.

[fjlip]

You can find run off maps here,
https://www.wsask.ca/