You have to pump water no matter how wet the year is. If it rained enough to keep your rice going, you would not be able to plant any other crop.
See where we are going to get 4-5 more inches this weekend .
Yikes! That much rain will put at least one (Butla) of Big 4 over emergency spillway.
And in the meantime Okatibbee is still four feet low. Go figure.