Critical water shortage endangers crops
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June 17, 2015
The historic low water level in the Skagit River threatens to damage the valley’s farms this summer.
With stream flows the lowest they’ve ever been in the 74 years records have been kept, the state authorized emergency water to be transferred from a utility to irrigate the most at-risk crops on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Skagit County Board of Commissioners has scheduled a meeting Monday to hear from farmers concerned about their irrigation water supply. Monday’s meeting is 11:30 a.m. at the commissioners chambers in Mount Vernon.
“We’re just having a public session, hoping to get fa...
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