Steve Peterson of Clay Center, KS uses three Riverscreens on the Republican River to keep seven pivot systems running.

"I would be in a lot of trouble with leaves and trash getting into the pump without these screens.  I used to have to walk my sprinklers every day to unplug nozzles.  Now I rarely have to unplug a nozzle."

  Bob Altweg

“I used to always flood irrigate and wanted to switch to a center pivot system but I was afraid that it wouldn’t work because I was always down in the creek morning, noon, and night cleaning off the suction screen,  besides, the creek only had 1000-1500 gallons flowing by the suction screen.  Bob brought a screen down to me to try and it worked great so I bought it and put in a center pivot system. I’m sure glad I got the Riverscreen because it worked out really well.”

Lorenze Karmann

“It’s the greatest thing since apple pie.”

“We’re pumping three pivots for a total of 2250 gallons thru a 12 inch pipe and one Riverscreen with no troubles. I’m sold on it.”

“I’ve been irrigating since 1954 out of the river and there’s always been problems. I’ll guarantee that with the Riverscreen I’m using today all the problems will be eliminated. The nozzles don’t plug and it will always pump water even as low as 4 inches.”

  Larry Ditmars

“I was an irritated irrigator before I got a Riverscreen.  I had to go down in that creek 2-3 times a day to shovel mud off of the suction screen and that was getting old. If the water is 2-4 inches deep we don’t have any problem with it at all. With the Riverscreen I’m getting just about all the water the creek has. Most of the time we wouldn’t be pumping without the Riverscreen because I don’t think we could get a suction screen in there deep enough.”

“The Riverscreen is the best thing for irrigators since toilet paper and center pivots.”

Lee Henick

“We have three systems that pump 2200 gallons each and we were a little skeptical at first whether the Riverscreen would let enough water come through but we haven’t had any issues.”

 “Before we didn’t have anything on the suction lines. We sucked up rocks; fish and you name it and ruined a couple pumps. We knew we had to do something different and saw our neighbor using a Riverscreen and decided to purchase. The first year we had great success. We used to have a crane come in and dig a 10 foot hole but didn’t have to do that with the Riverscreen. After the first year we were very satisfied so we bought two more Riverscreens.”

 “I definitely recommend them because they save you a lot of time and energy.”

Vince Bruna

“We use to always flood irrigate on the Little Blue river and had to have a drag line dig a hole because the water was to shallow. The suction line would continually plug up with roots and leaves and it seemed like we were constantly shutting down to clean off the screen.”

 “I think center pivot irrigating out of a river would be impossible without a Riverscreen. With the Riverscreen we never shut it down and never have any nozzles plug. I like it 100%.”

Luke Wohler

“The other day my dad was going to go clean the sand trap on the pivot and I told him he didn’t need to because I’ve seen the Riverscreens in operation. When he returned I asked him what was in it and he said, just water.”

Raymond Yenne

"Dear Bob,
I'll give you a 2 yr. report on my River Screen. We have ran it 2 yrs now I haven't had a stop. The 1st year I said its worth its weight in gold after the 2nd year I'm changing it to it's worth its weight in diamonds. The irrigation pond was covered about 80% with algae & scum. One of the worst conditions you could ever find.
Before we had nozzles plugging all the time with snails, small fish & you name it. My hired man, Duane Kugln is in shock as he don't have to work on the pivot all the time . 2yrs ago we lost a full pivot of corn just flat burned up. If I would have had this in 1982 I would have had my farm paid for instead of still owing $400,000 on it. I would be glad to have anyone interested in a screen to come & see it work.