2025 PID WATER IN – Price Ditch the week of 04/07-11/25 and P-Laterals the week of 04/14-18/25. Please allow the water to flush for a couple of days to clear all laterals. PLEASE SHUT ALL YOUR VALVES BEFORE 03/31/25. MCID will begin to fill 04/08/25. The Government Highline Canal/GVWUA will start filling 03/31/25 +/-. GVIC will start to fill 03/24/25, Please contact your provider for further information.

PID is experiencing high call volume and you will need to let the phone ring 8 times for the call to be transferred to our message service.

The Clifton/CDOT [I70 Business east, past Clifton Elementary School & 1st St/32 1/2 Rd] construction project has been delayed and is scheduled to be completed by late 2025 – irrigation will be intermittent and you’ll need to be patient as this project progresses.

Fiber Optics Installation – is an ongoing project through out the Grand Valley – may require intermittent irrigation outages, please by patient.

The Next PID Board Meeting will be Thursday, April 03, 2025 @ 7p.m. – Board meetings are usually held the first Thursday of each month, generally, at 7pm at the PID Office, there are exceptions; next board meeting May 08, 2025. Anyone wishing to address the Board needs to contact the Office Manager at least one week or the Friday prior to the Board Meeting  in order to be placed on the agenda.  Please check our “Meetings” tab to view the current Agenda. [updated 02/06/25]

***On your Mesa County Real Estate Property Tax Notice 2024 due in 2025 [received in Jan 2025], you’ll notice a SPECIAL ASSESSMENT $ [varies with size of parcel from $105 paying the 2025 Water Assessment.  If you call the Mesa County Assessor’s & Treasurer’s offices, regarding this Special Assessment, the staff will direct you to call PID for further information on the line item. We hope this explains, but PID has no control over the wording or printing of the notices from Mesa County.  Assessments for the first acre and less are $105 per year. Rates for any acreage above the first acre is $20 per acre or fraction thereof.  11/2024 there are 8441 parcels of 1acre or less & of those 771 parcels that have more than 1 acre and the 2025 water assessments total $950,600.  ***MC Property Valuation example 2021 [PDF]

Palisade Irrigation District’s operating hours are Monday-Friday. Office & PHONE hours are 9am-3pm , with exceptions.  Our Office phone number is 970-464-4700. When we are unable to answer the phone, please leave a message [with our message service] with your name, address and phone number, with a detailed message and we will contact you on the next business day.  Please be patient and polite with our message service, as they are in place to help us serve water users. Please remember that after the weekend, we have many return calls to make and we will contact you in order. If you call & leave a message or email AND request a return call, please NOTE – you’ll want to answer during the time you have contacted PID; if you have blocking on your phone line, we will be unable to contact you. We will not answer blocked/anonymous/private calls, so please unblock before calling. PID field techs work M-F from 7am-3pm and one is on call for after hours and weekend emergencies. Please be patient. We  WILL NOT release our Field Techs cell numbers.

If you want to visit the office in person, please call and make an appointment so we can plan for your visit.

FOR ALL UPDATES ON IRRIGATION WATER DELIVERIES OR OUTAGES, PLEASE CLICK ON THE “OUTAGE UPDATE” TAB AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE OR SEE OUR NEWS SECTION LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE ! .

OPEN DITCHES – The District is not responsible for operating or maintaining open ditches.  Those that use or can use those ditches are responsible for preparing them for the irrigation season by April 1st.  This includes cleaning them from trash, debris, weeds and sediment.  If a ditch is not ready to accept water by April 1, the District may refuse to deliver irrigation water.

 As a reminder, underground District valves are not to be operated by non-District personnel. – THANK YOU

PID is not responsible for operating private systems.  However, if property damage is occurring due to over-topping head or tail ditches, plugged or broken pipes or drains the District must turn off the District water-source until repairs to the private system are complete.

In order to provide more timely service we’d like to get to know you better.  Please click on the “Get Started”  tab above and submit so that we may update our records with current property info.

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