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Show PROBLEMS OF IM3»ERTAT. VALLEY AND VICINITY. 141 from 33° to 52°, increasing toward the west with decrease in elevation. The irrigation season at Grand Junction is 7 months, April to October, inclusive, but Li the higher parts water is diverted only for the usual 60 to 90 days for wild hay. Agricultural products vary from those possible with the intensive cultivation which jr&j be maintained at Grand Junction to wild hay and timothy in the higher parts. At Grand Junction and vicinity apples and peaches comprise a considerable acreage. Transportation is furnished by the main line of the Denver & Rio Grande Itailroad, which parallels the river almost from end to end. In the eastern part the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad serves a small part of the valley. Not enough information is at hand to estimate average diversion duty for new lands, but for the entire average of the basin a consumptive use of 1.5 feet in depth is estimated. Power development is already extensive on the headwaters and there is opportunity for large addition to this. The steep grade of the streams and the well-sustained stream flow are favorable to power developments. Along the main stream in Colorado at several places power can be developed and at Dewey reservoir the stream can be largely equated for power. Kremmling reservoir, if built, would give considerable increase to all-year power below it. A UTH ORITIE 8. Data is taken from compilations and information furnished, by R. I. Meeker, special deputy State engineer, and from publications of the Reclamation Service concerning Grand Valley project GENERAL DATA. Irrigation development (acres). Utah...... ¦Colorado... Total Present. 13,000 251,000 264,000 Estimated additional possible. 163,000 163,000 Total ultimate 13,000 414,000 427,000 Future annual decrease in stream discharge. Diversions from basin: Acre-feet. By extension and betterments......................................... 15,000 By new projects.....................................................300,000 €onoumed in irrigation, 163,000 acres, at 1.5 acre-feet per acre.............. 244,000 Total decrease___.................................-...............559,000 In round figures, say..................................................... 560,000 Future development.-Out of tfye 163,000 acres listed as possible ultimate, 39,000 acres are in the Gi*and Valley project; 7;000 acres in Orchard Mesa, which possibly will be taken over by the Reclamation Service; and 15,000 acres in areas large enough to warrant being termed a project. This latter is the Plateau project of 15,000 acres from Plateau Creek, concerning which no data are at hand. 93715-S. Doc. 142, 67-2------12 |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |