Many farmers have expressed reluctance about participating in the new water leasing program. The Tribune spoke to irrigators throughout the Great Salt Lake basin to understand why. Here’s what they told us.
Dan Harris of Eden walks around the snow bank just off his front porch, Mar. 6, 2023. Harris grows hay and Christmas trees on his 9-acre farm and is the president of Middle Fork Irrigation Co.Utah lawmakers retooled water policy in recent years so the state could pay farmers to lease their water for the benefit of the Great Salt Lake.
Drought and water shortages has seems to have deepened the schism between rural and urban Utah residents. Farmers take much bigger cuts than cities when water supplies are low, even though their water rights are often older. They’re also facing increasing pressure as cities grow, converting some of the state’s best farmland into subdivisions.
“It’s not about the money,” said Laren Gertsch, a farmer in Heber Valley. “Shoot, if it was just about the money, the landowners would have sold their land and related water rights and we would be sitting on an island somewhere in the Caribbean.”Bear River Canal Company in Box Elder County is looking to address irrigators’ concerns by leasing water to the Great Salt Lake as a block, instead of letting individual farmers lease however many shares they want.
“If you want to move water to the lake, that’s great, but you’ve got to move it through physical systems,” said Trevor Nielson, general manager of the Bear River Canal Company. “It takes money and it takes time.”
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