WATER Impact on equipment & land


After the waters receded, one of the big takeaways was that there were not catastrophic impacts to most irrigation equipment. For instance, most systems were back up and running this past summer after maintenance was done on gearboxes, motors and electric panels. In some situations, growers elected to replace electric motors that had been wet to avoid potential problems down the road. Unfortunately, there were also cases where power units or other equipment were total losses from flood damage.


At this farm along the Loup River in Nebraska, the river channel moved into the field and will prevent the pivot in the background from making a full circle.


Some of the largest issues related to flooding were not problems with the irrigation systems themselves but effects on the land that the irrigation system originally covered. Thousands of acres of farm ground impacted by flooding are now either buried by sediment or simply gone due to erosion or the movement


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