Water Box

This is a Water Box, they are used in the irrigation of the land here. They do a lot of irrigation of this land. This box is placed where they need to channel water from one area to another. I am not sure if you can see where they slide boards in to check the water or not (click on it). They will use boards to stop the flow or to change the flow from on area to another. At the beginning of the Ranch is a box with a gage on one side, it is called a weir, they can tell how much each Rancher is using as each Ranch has so much water allocated for use, by the state. If you have a spring on your Ranch you can use all that water without a permit from the state, V A Poma Ranch has such a spring (with very good water) which is the water we used for all the cabins & RV sites.