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The South Columbia Basin Irrigation District is a non-profit quasi-municipality located in North Central Washington State that operates and maintains a portion of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. The primary function of the Irrigation District is to deliver irrigation water to farm land located in the Columbia River Basin

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The South-Columbia Basin Irrigation District (SCBID) is one of three independent non-profit quasi-municipalities founded under Washington State Law that hold a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a division of the United States Department of Interior, to operate and maintain a portion of the Columbia Basin Project.

The South-Columbia Basin Irrigation District is also a member of the Grand Coulee Project Hydroelectric Authority. Under agreement with GCPHA and Grant County Public Utility District No. 2, the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District contributes in excess of ???? kilowatts of hydroelectric power produced at several power generating sites on the project: RD Smith, Main Canal, Summer Falls and Quincy Chute to the local power grid.[1]