The Bureau of Reclamation and the Idaho Department of Water Resources are working on a project that will add more storage to the Boise River Basin by adding 29,000 acre feet of water to Anderson Ranch Reservoir, a seven percent increase.
“An acre foot of water would cover one football field about a foot deep, so picture 29,000 football fields that are one foot deep,” said Chris Keith, the project manager with the Bureau of Reclamation. “If you can imagine one football field with all of that water, it would be four miles deep.”
WATCH|Check out the video to see more of the dam and the reservoir as it’s 88 percent full
A plan to raise Anderson Ranch Dam by six feet has finished the final design phase
We have done several stories on the Governor declaring a drought and concerns for farmers and irrigators this water season after a low snowpack winter. This project would save more water during the high snowpack years to help during the dryer years…