RUWBI INC runs the shared irrigation headgates, flumes and turn schedules that keep small farms and acreage properties across Northern Utah watered through the season. From a working shed at 2024 W Bonneville Ln, Kaysville - 84037-6859, United States (US), our ditch riders set and hold each gate so every shareholder takes water in the order the ditch was built to give it. Whether you need a stubborn headgate freed after winter silt or a full seasonal turn calendar for a community ditch, the crew keeps the flow honest and the ledger current. See how the turn schedule works
Cast-iron headgate, rising stem
Each rung is a working part of the shed. Pull one down when the ditch asks for it.
Our riders free, adjust and rebuild cast-iron headgates that have seized under winter silt or bent their stems against ice. We re-seat the gate frame, replace the rising stem and hand wheel where needed, and confirm travel so the gate holds its set instead of creeping. For most ditches this is the single repair that decides whether the season runs smoothly. Details on headgate work.
We rebuild and level wooden flumes of planed boards and mount the measuring board and gauge plate that turn a fast ditch into a readable number. A flume that is out of level or has a warped board will make every turn dispute worse, so we true the boards and set the board marks against the gauge plate before the first water moves. See the flume service.
We build the whole season of water turns as a roster, not a guess: who takes water, on which day, for how many hours, and through which gate. The turn roster board in our shed is the same ledger we hand to each shareholder, so the order is written down and held. How turn scheduling runs.
Where a ditch crosses a bank into a lower field, we run aluminum siphon pipes in staggered ranks so water lifts over the levee without a pump. We size the pipes to the flow, set them in a stable ladder, and teach the crew how to prime and pull them for repeated sets across the season. Read about siphon programs.
Before the turn order can mean anything, the channel has to carry water from end to end. Our clearing crews cut bankside growth, pull sediment and debris from the flume inlets, and open the check points so each shareholder receives the flow that was measured for them. Clearing crew details.
Paperwork decides whose turn stands when a ditch is contested. We help acreage owners assemble the filings, maps and ditch records that back a water right, and we keep a clean filing set in the shed so a shareholder can show the record without a scramble. Filings help explained.
RUWBI INC opens its spring turn signup as soon as the ditch is clear and the headgates are set.
An irrigation ditch is a shared machine. Every headgate on it belongs to the same column of water, and moving one gate changes the flow at every flume below. That is why RUWBI INC treats the ditch as one system and one calendar. We measure at the flume, set the gate, and write the turn in a single ledger that every shareholder can read.
Our crews work the small canals and laterals that serve Northern Utah acreage: the kind of ditch where a family waters four acres of alfalfa and one orchard lot and cannot afford a season of missed turns. We handle headgate operation and repair, flume and measuring board setup, seasonal turn scheduling, siphon pipe programs, ditch clearing crews and water right filings help from a single shed at 2024 W Bonneville Ln in Kaysville.
A rider who knows the ditch can save a shareholder an entire season of argument. We would rather walk the lateral twice in April than settle a complaint in July, so we check gates, boards and siphon ranks early and often until the last turn of the year is delivered.
The shed itself is a working room, not an office of theory. Planed flume boards lean against one wall, cast-iron headgates wait on a bench, and the flow ledger sits open beside the turn roster board where any shareholder can read the order. A gooseneck coupling rack holds the joints we swap in the field, and the rider shed lamp stays lit on its hook through the late turns of summer. Everything in the room exists to answer one question: whose turn is it, and is the water arriving as measured.