Working to efficiently deliver water to our shareholders
Delivering reliable water management for agriculture.
About Supply Ditch Association
Our Mission
The Supply Ditch Association will strive to maintain the canal system and all relevant structures for the efficient and practical delivery of water to all shareholders, using sound management and financial practices, exercising due diligence in all actions, making continued efforts to avoid fee increases to shareholders, and keeping an open door policy, inviting input and participation from all shareholders.
History of our association
Supply Ditch History
The Supply Ditch Company was formed on February 3, 1897, with a planned existence of twenty years. At that time, the company’s stock totaled $10,000.00, which was divided into 10,000 shares, meaning the shares were valued at $1 per share. In November of 1898, the company increased its capital stock to $20,000.00, still at $1 per share. On February 3, 1917, the ditch company increased its articles of incorporation to forty years and changed its name to Supply Ditch Association. On September 1, 1956, the Supply Ditch Association passed a resolution to extend the corporation’s life to perpetual and filed for the right of continual succession. An early record dated January 26, 1918 states that five shares equal one miner’s inch. One miner’s inch equals 1.5 cubic feet per minute.
This ditch system started several years before its original incorporation as a private ditch called the Wood-Parkhurst Ditch and as extensions were added to the ditch, a separate system developed called the Supply Ditch Company. The Supply Ditch Association is two separate systems, each one having their own operations and maintenance. The Woods-Parkhurst Ditch covers the first 6 ¾ miles and the rest of the system is considered to be the Supply Ditch. Both systems use the same head gate and ditch from the Bitterroot River. The Supply Ditch has a water right for 5000 total inches available at the headgate in the Bitterroot River. 4000 of those inches are considered usable by the shareholders due to conveyance loss.
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