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Established in 1887, the Turlock Irrigation District (TID) was the first publicly owned irrigation district in the state and is one of only four in California today that also provides electric retail energy directly to homes, farms and businesses.
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Since 1923, TID has been providing safe, affordable and reliable electricity to a growing retail customer base that now numbers in excess of 100,000 residential, farm, business, industrial and municipal accounts in an electric service area that encompasses 662-square miles in portions of Stanislaus, Merced, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties.
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TID provides irrigation water to more than 5,800 growers in a 307 squaremile service area that incorporates 149,500 acres of Central Valley farmland. The District has been delivering irrigation water to growers since completing its gravity-fed water conveyance system of canals and laterals in 1900.
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With historic water rights dating back to the late 1880’s, the Turlock Irrigatio Tuolumne River, the largest of the three tributarites of the San Joaquin Rive Yosemite National Park. Melting snow and rainfall in the 1,884-square-mil acre-feet of runoff that is captured behind a series of dams and ulitmately is production and environmental enhancement.
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Turlock Irrigation District 333 East Canal Drive, P.O. Box 949 Turlock, CA 95381 www.tid.org