As of Today, June 18, 2007 Ironhouse Sanitary District is discing on Jersey Island. ISD will be discing and leveling the fields on the East side of Jersey Island Road. These leveling jobs should last 10 days to 2 weeks from the start to finish, then we will plant and irrigate the fields. ISD will be having watering trucks working with the levelers.

The leveling of these fields is rehabilitation of fields leveled two years ago.

For the week beginning June 5, 2006
By the end of this week or the early part of next week we will complete our levelling operations for four fields on the east side of Jersey Island Road.
The installation of the irrigation pipeline will begin which will supply water to the newly levelled fields for farming purposes. These fields will be used for hay crop production.

For the week biginning July 17, 2006
This week we will be applying Gypsum to the newly levelled fields and discing them and applying water by flood irrigating using water from Dutch Slough and Taylor Slough. We will continue to run the Water Truck until all four fields are irrigated. We are also discing and planting the two fields we levelled last year that are located East of Jersey Island Road.


For the week beginning May 8,2006 we will begin levelling operations on the East side of Jersey Island Road in an area from the Jersey Island Bridge to a half mile North. We were scheduled to start two weeks earlier but due to the extended rains our levelling operations were delayed.
We will begin Harvest of our Hay Crops on Jersey Island beginning the week of May 15, 2006.

Monday March 6, 2006
This week we will begin planting about 800 trees along the East side of the farm fields East of Jersey Island Road for "DUST CONTROL" from our farming operations. The tree plantings will be completed by the end of the week.

For the Week beginning October 10, 2005 and October 17, 2005
Ground Preparation continues on the fields on the West side of Jersey Island Road and we will continue planting. We are trying a NO-Till seeder in selected fields to determine if we can get a crop to grow with minimum tillage. If we are able to get a stand established and a crop to grow this will enable us to cut way down on our discing, ripping, and land plane operations the following year.


For the Week beginning September 19, 2005
Ground preparation continues on the fields on the West side of Jersey Island Road.
Beginning Thurs. Sept 22, 2005 We are going to apply Gypsum to the new fields on the East side of Jersey Island Road. The fields will then be disced and ripped in preparation for the fall planting.


For the Week beginning September 12, 2005
We will begin some Touch-up leveling of selected fields West of Jersey Island Road.

For the Week Beginning September 5, 2005
We will continue discing fields on the West side of Jersey Island road for the fall crop plantings.

For the Week beginning August 29, 2005
On Tuesday August 30 we will be applying dust control measures to the roads bordering the farm fields on the east side of Jersey Island Road.
By the first part of the week we will also be finishing up with the Rock Crushing operations.

For the Week beginning August 15, 2005
Starting August 16, 2005 we will begin discing the farm fields on the west side of Jersey Island Road and preparing the fields for the planting of our fall crops.

As of August 14, 2005 we have completed our Jersey Island leveling operations of two new fields and both fields have been flood irrigated for dust control using River Water from Taylor Slough.

We have established this blog in an effort to keep residents near our Jersey Island properties informed of work scheduled in the area. It is ISD's goal to keep dust and noise to a minimum when work is in progress. We make every effort to reduce the inconvenience posed by such work, but it is not always possible.

ISD welcomes your comments and suggestions. If you have specific questions or input regarding one of our projects, please contact our offices through the links provided at our Web site, www.ironhousesanitarydistrict.com.

Thank you for your patience and understanding, and please watch this space for future updates.