IRRIGATION WATER WELLS
The Rio Grande and its network of diversion dams and irrigation ditches depend on spring runoff from winter snowpack to supply enough water to irrigate. But during drought periods in already-dry New Mexico, water can be scarce.

Since the 1950s, Rodgers & Company has drilled over a thousand irrigation wells to supplement surface water irrigation and to supply areas not served by irrigation canals. Typically, these irrigation wells are from 8 to 16 inches in diameter and 150 to 650 feet deep. Line shaft and submersible turbine pumps are used to bring the water to surface. Today, Rodgers & Company continues to install new irrigation wells, but is also is active in rehabilitating and maintaining older wells and pumps.