Flood Irrigation

Here is a farmers field in Ellensburg , Washington. This shows application of flood irrigation





This is a low pressure / high volume irrigation technology. I have observed its uses very commonly in this region. Fields do not necessarily do not need to be level, just to place the trunklines in strategic places. Water then moves across the field and collects in a drainage ditch.


For cattails and coppiced willows , low dikes could retain a water level for these aquatic and semiaquatic plants.


Another view of field






Here is a harvested field of grain