| OCR Text |
Show TABLE 7.-Consujii'Tivk Use of Wateb in Irrigation. CO to River basin. (i) 1. Little Laramie : Hatton to Two Rivers......... 2. Little Laramie: Hatton to Two Rivers............ 8. North Platte: North Park....... 4. Boise: Mason Creek Area, Boise Project, U. S. Recla-matiou Service... 5. South Platte: Kersey to Jules-burg........... Btate. (a) Wyoming. Wyoming. Colorado.. Idaho..... Colorado.. §1 C?8J (3) 7800 7 800 8 800 4 100 U) 40 40 38 50 48 a-2 0 I (8) IS (7) (a) (a) (6) 4.1 2.7 Is (8) (a) (a) (6) 1.8 §1 (9) 0.90 1.00 1.00 1.20 1.15 1.2 1.8 1.8 1.4 1.9 (io) 28 000 28 000 120 000 18 650 229 000 95 95 60 165 145 Authority and remarks. 12-year record, 1912-28, inclusive, Includes some waste Into Big Basin by Park Ditch; automatic gauge, Upper Station, 1012-14; automatic gauge. Lower Station, 1913-23. R. I. Meeker, 8-year record (1912-18-14), Laramie River investigations; automatic records of water above and below; irrigated area determined from reconnaissance survey; (a) chiefly meadows, heavily flooded compact area. 1.00 assumed and adopted for North Platte Co-Operative Report by Conkling and Meeker (1919), see Vol. 2; (b) chiefly meadows; freely flooded. U. S. Reclamation Service special investigation on area with drainage system; drainage recovery, 2.89 acre-ft. per acre per year, see North Platte Co-Operative Report, Vol. 2, p. 120 (1919); work by Steward, Paul, et al. Comp. by R. I. Meeker from special investigation by Cooperative, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, and State Engineer of Colorado, 1919-20, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 179 (December, 1922); water-table still rising and return flow increasing; includes reservoir evaporation. |
