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Flood & Extreme Weather Resource Hub

Floods, Dirty Water & Your Water Systems

Historic floods in the Pacific Northwest and beyond are leaving behind more than headlines—they're reshaping rivers, canals, and ponds for years. This hub helps growers, utilities, and operators understand what that means for intakes, pumps, and filtration.

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Flood recovery decisions move fast. Our engineering team prioritizes calls related to flood and dirty-water issues and typically responds within one business day.

Floods End, But Dirty Water Sticks Around

When rivers jump their banks and fields go under, the damage isn't just fences and roads. Floods scour streambanks, move sediment, and flush organics, manure, and debris into every low point in the watershed.

As flows drop and snowpack builds, all that material doesn't disappear—it settles into rivers, canals, ponds, and sumps. Months later, when you open valves and start pumps, it shows up as:

  • Higher sediment and turbidity at river and canal intakes
  • More trash, branches, and plastics at screens and trash racks
  • Nutrient-rich water that feeds algae and biofilm in ponds and sumps
  • Shorter filter run times and more frequent cleaning
  • Plugged nozzles, emitters, and strainers

Whether you manage orchards, a municipal pump station, or a process-water intake at a plant, floods change your water for multiple seasons, not just during the storm.

Built for the People Standing at the Pump

Growers & Irrigation Managers

  • Drip and micro-sprinkler systems on surface water
  • River, canal, or pond-fed irrigation
  • Filtration systems that already struggle with silt and algae

Municipal & District Utilities

  • Raw water intakes on rivers and canals
  • Wastewater and stormwater pump stations in flood-prone areas
  • Irrigation, drainage, and diking districts managing canals and culverts

Industrial & Food Processors

  • Process and cooling water drawn from rivers, canals, or ponds
  • Washdown and spray systems sensitive to debris and scale
  • Lagoons and settling ponds affected by flood overflow

Common Flood-Driven Water Problems We See

Plugged Intakes & Pump Suction

Flood debris and driftwood choke suction screens and culvert inlets, forcing crews to rake screens at the worst possible time.

Short Filter Run Times

Suspended solids and fine silt blow through pre-screens and hammer downstream filters, turning "once a week" cleaning into "every few hours."

Algae & Biofilm in Ponds and Sumps

Nutrient-rich floodwater sets the stage for heavy algae growth and biofilm once temperatures rise, increasing plugging and odor issues.

Safety & Labor Strain

Operators and field crews are sent into dangerous conditions—fast-moving water, soft banks, night work—to keep systems limping along.

Where CTC Fits Into Flood Recovery & Resilience

CTC Waterworks focuses on the parts of your system that physically touch dirty water: intakes, screens, and filtration. Our role in flood recovery is not emergency pumping or temporary damming—we help you repair and upgrade the permanent hardware so the next event hurts less.

For Irrigation & Agriculture

  • Post-flood intake protection with self-cleaning suction screens
  • Inline filtration sized for higher sediment loads
  • Winter inspections and system reviews before the next irrigation season
Learn more about post-flood irrigation filtration

For Municipal & District Utilities

  • Self-cleaning screens for raw water, stormwater, and district pump intakes
  • Filtration and strainers for plant services and non-potable uses
  • Support for "build-back-better" pump station upgrades
Flood-resilient intakes for municipal & district systems

The Off-Season Is the Time to Fix What Floods Exposed

It's normal to focus on immediate clean-up first—roads, utilities, structures, and insurance. But as soon as the immediate crisis passes, there is a window where you can:

  • Inspect intakes, screens, and filters before they are back under full load
  • Document where systems struggled during the flood
  • Plan upgrades and replacements while funding and political will are available

Whether you are a grower planning for spring irrigation, or a utility scheduling capital work, this is when decisions with the biggest long-term payoffs get made.

Need to Talk Through a Flood-Related Water Problem?

If you're dealing with flooded intakes, dirty irrigation water, or pump stations that struggled during recent storms, a quick conversation with our team can save weeks of trial and error later.

We prioritize calls related to flood and dirty-water issues and typically return messages within one business day.

Call Now (509) 901-7476

We prioritize flood and dirty-water calls and aim to respond as quickly as possible, typically within one business day.