Aging irrigation infrastructure to be discussed in Worland

WORLAND — It wasn’t a secret to Wyoming’s agriculture community that thousands of tunnels, ditches and canals were creeping up in age — the majority exceeding being older than a century or more — but the 2019 tunnel collapse in Goshen County that left thousands without irrigation during the most critical part of the growing season served as a wakeup call.

That’s the impetus for numerous meetings b...