Duperon FlexRake® Bar Screening System Helps Idaho Farmers Clear Debris For Crop Irrigation

Automated system ensures worker safety, eliminates maintenance and protects equipment

Duperon Corporation, leader in innovative preliminary liquids/solids separation systems, announces that two FlexRake® FRHD automated bar screens installed at the Mud Lake Water Users, Inc. (MLWU) irrigation company in Eastern Idaho are successfully protecting MLWU’s 160,000-gallon-per-minute pumps from tumbleweeds and other debris. MLWU owns water rights for irrigation storage in Mud Lake, a natural closed basin that’s used as a reservoir for storage of irrigation water before the water travels through a series of supply canals, two major pump stations and multiple minor canals and ditches that convey the water to 130 farms. Farmers use the delivered water from the canals to flood irrigate and pump the water into pressurized sprinkler systems for irrigation of crops, primarily alfalfa, potatoes, wheat, and silage corn.