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Irrigation & Water District Office Moving in the Valley

Board room, map room, water-order counter and field desks moved after board approval, while telemetry and yard equipment stay with the district.

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Irrigation & Water District Office moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work
  • Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
  • Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
  • Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Irrigation & Water District Office Move

A water, irrigation or reclamation district office is small, but three things in it cannot get mixed up. There is the board room where directors meet in public, the map and records room that shows every canal, lateral, turnout and levee, and the field staff who start the day at a desk and spend it out on the ditch. Districts in Willows, Orland, Colusa, Yuba City and Marysville often share a lot with their yard, so the office moves beside trucks and equipment that keep working.

The water sets the timing. Deliveries run hard from spring flooding of rice fields through summer, and fall has its own work, so most districts would rather move in winter. The board approves the move at a regular meeting, and the district then issues a purchase order. We can walk the office beforehand so the general manager has a room-by-room scope for the board packet.

The district keeps its field equipment, vehicles and telemetry systems; the crew moves the office around them. For public-sector planning more broadly, see institutional moves.

Who usually signs off
District general manager or office manager, with the board of directors approving the move and the district issuing the PO
Timing that works
Usually the winter months between irrigation seasons, after a regular board meeting approves the work and before the next one needs the board room.

What typically moves

  • Board room director table and public seatingTable sections and audience chairs are tagged for the new room so it can be set for the next public meeting.
  • Flat-file map cabinetsDrawer order is recorded first. Staff decide whether original canal and parcel maps stay in the drawers or travel separately.
  • Rolled plans and as-built drawingsTubes are grouped by the shelf code your staff assigns, caps checked, and carried in their own cartons.
  • Water-order and assessment counterThe desk and forms shelving growers use, moved last so the counter stays open as long as possible.
  • Field-staff desks and ditch-tender lockersTagged by station. Staff empty lockers and keep the keys to gates and structures.
  • Records room shelving and archive cartonsDistrict staff pack or seal board minutes, easement files and landowner records in their own order.

Access and scheduling

Most district offices have two sides: a public entrance where growers and landowners come in, and a service side facing the yard. Walk both with whoever holds the keys, because the truck has to stand where it does not block the yard gate while crews come and go. A new office inside the same yard can mean a short carry across the gravel. If it is across town, the old yard keeps running while the office leaves.

The board calendar is the other fixed point. The board room needs to be set before the agenda for the next regular meeting is posted, and the counter should not close in the weeks when growers are placing water orders. When the office cannot close on a weekday, the crew can come on an evening or a weekend instead, on request. A district that leases its office may also owe its landlord an insurance certificate.

Protection and handling

Maps are the district's memory. Staff decide which originals travel in their own vehicles and which drawers or tubes the crew carries. Every drawer and tube gets a location code before it moves, and flat-file drawers stay taped shut and level in transit so sheets do not slide.

Records follow the same rule. Board minutes, easements and landowner files are packed or sealed by staff and moved unopened, labeled only with a shelf code, never with names. Director table sections are wrapped with their hardware bagged to each one. The telemetry and radio equipment that watches canals, pumps and gates is not part of the move; district technicians or their controls contractor handle it. At the new office, desks go back by the plan, and the crew reconnects desk computers and printers at each station for district staff to check.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Board approval and purchase order
The board of directors approves the move at a public meeting and the district issues the PO. We provide the office scope for the board packet.
Telemetry, SCADA and radio equipment
District technicians or the controls contractor shut it down, relocate it and bring it back online. The crew does not touch it.
Field equipment, vehicles and the yard
District field staff move their own trucks, pumps and tools.

Not part of our work

  • Telemetry, SCADA, radio and control-room equipment.
  • District vehicles, pumps, gates and field equipment.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Irrigation, water and reclamation districts cover much of Glenn, Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties, where rice ground, orchards and levees shape the land. District offices sit in towns such as Willows, Orland, Colusa, Yuba City and Marysville, often at the edge of town beside the yard, reached from I-5, Hwy 99, Hwy 20 or Hwy 70.

The crew that shows up

Murdock’s crew carrying a pad-wrapped piece through a tiled entrywayMurdock’s crew rebuilding cubicle panels in an office, one mover on a step ladderMurdock’s movers working the loading ramp of an open box truck

Irrigation & Water District Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Can you walk our office before the board votes, so the scope is in the packet?

Yes. The general manager or office manager can set up a walk-through of the board room, map room, records room and field desks. We turn that into a written scope the board can review with the rest of the packet. Dates follow once the board has voted and the PO is issued.

What happens to the telemetry computers in our control room?

They stay with your technicians or your controls contractor. Anything that monitors or operates canals, pumps or gates is shut down, moved and brought back online by the people responsible for it. The crew moves the furniture around it once they have cleared the room, and can carry cases they have packed if they ask.

When in the year do districts usually schedule an office move?

That is the district's call, but most prefer winter, when deliveries are low and field staff are around the office. Avoid the week of a regular board meeting and the weeks when growers are placing orders. Tell us the board calendar and we work around it.

Our map drawers hold originals. How do they stay in order?

Your map-room lead assigns each cabinet and drawer a code for its new position before anything moves. Staff take any originals they want to carry. The crew moves the rest with drawers taped shut and level, and sets each cabinet where its code says, so staff can check the sheets before the room is used.

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