For more than a century, the canal system of the Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 1 has directed water from the Rio Grande River to farmers and the nearby cities of Edinburg and McAllen.
The 27-mile-long stretch is pumped from the river near Peñitas, then gravity takes over, allowing the water to flow both north and east.
“It’s designed to flow freely. We don’t force the water down here. The elevation every mile; it’s supposed to drop a foot,” Carlos Guzman, general manager of Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 1, told the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal in a recent interview.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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