Seasonal Water Transfers

Seasonal transfers are only effective for one irrigation season. The stockholder should first apply and pay a transfer fee to TFCC. The Board of Directors of the company must approve the transfer.

Designated transfers are allowed, by request on transfer gates, by notifying the ditchrider before delivery changes. Call your ditchrider from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. for water transfers for the next day. This allows your ditchrider to accommodate your request.

Transfers of equal amounts of water, which do not change the original amount ordered, are allowed by the ditchrider. This includes transfers from one headgate to another on the same canal or lateral by the same operator.

Transfers may only be completed on a route during a ditchrider's scheduled stop at your turnouts. Later transfers result in increased Company costs in overtime and added mileage for the ditchrider.

Operational Transfers

A. Operational transfers are defined as temporary in-season transfers that are either transfers within the same lateral or within the immediate vicinity of the Transferor land. Operational transfers are subject to the "General TFCC Transfer Policy applicable to all Water Transfers."

B. To assist water users in making a crop when deliveries are less than 5/8 allocation, TFCC will make every attempt to accommodate operational transfers. However, operational transfers will be closely scrutinized to minimize adverse impacts to other water users and to ensure the transfer can be accomplished within the parameters and conditions of the system.

C. Operational transfer requests are submitted to the appropriate watermaster for his consideration and approval and are also reviewed by the Manager. In the event the transfer is denied by the watermaster and Manager, the transfer request can be submitted to the Board for its consideration.

D. Water transferred pursuant to an operational transfer will remain in the transferred headgate for a minimum of (5) days.

E. Operational transfers will not be allowed if the transfer would impact any other water user. In addition, approved operational transfers may later be revoked if an impact to another water user is discovered after the water is transferred.

F. Additional Criteria:

(a) No unacceptable fluctuations in flows of the Transferor lateral will occur as determined by TFCC's watermaster.

(b) The Transferee lateral must have adequate carrying capacity to accommodate the additional flow as determined by TFCC's watermaster.

(c) Water being transferred mid-season from a finished crop (i.e.: grain crops) may be allowed, however, the system depends on the relief mid-season as crops finish and overall system demand is reduced. Therefore, water being transferred mid-season will be allowed up to 50%, allowing the system to reduce overall demand by 50% of the particular water right.

(d) The Board of Directors may adjust the Operational Transfer Criteria annually, and/or as water supply conditions change throughout the irrigation season.