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<br />.j ':"J. 0 <br />.1. 'OJ 1.~) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />NORTH STERLING IRRIGATION DISTRICT STUDY AREA <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Early in 1963, a survey was made to determine the potential <br />market for water from Narrows Reservoir. The results of the <br />survey, presented in table 14, show that the North Sterling <br />Irrigation District is the largest single market for project <br />water. Their request to purchase an estimated 40,900 acre-feet <br />of water, annually, constitutes about 45 percent of the total <br />supplemental water requested by ditch company officials. There- <br />fore, it was concluded that the North Sterling Irrigation District <br />should serve as the principal study area to determine the basic <br />economic factors for appraisal of the project area. This Oistrict <br />is similar in many respects to other ditch systems in the proposed <br />Narrows Unit service area. Soils, land use, crop production, farm <br />size, general farming operations, and climatic conditions are <br />comparable throughout the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy <br />District which will be the contracting entity for Narrows water. <br />The North Sterling Irrigation District is also the largest ditch <br />system in the area. It is large enough to provide basic data for <br />analyses of economic conditions and farm characteristics. Therefore, <br />this District was selected for detailed study of representative <br />farms to determine payment capacity and to evaluate irrigation <br />benefits in the principal market area. <br /> <br />Table 14.--Requests for supplemental water from the proposed <br />Narrows Reservoir - 1963 1/ <br /> <br />Ditch <br /> <br />Request in <br />1,000 ac.-ft. <br /> <br />Fort Morgan <br />North Sterling <br />Johnson and Edwards <br />Farmers Pawnee <br />Schneider <br />Springdale <br />Sterling No. 1 <br />Sterling No.2 <br />Henderson and Smith <br />Bravo <br />Iliff and Platte Valley <br />Julesburg System <br />South Reservation <br />Liddle <br />Misc. small ditches <br /> <br />9.3 <br />40.9 <br />4.8 <br />9.8 <br />1.25 <br />3.1 <br />4.8 <br />0.5 <br />0.05 <br />2.0 <br />6.5 <br />6.5 <br />0.1 <br />0.15 <br />3.05 <br /> <br />92.8 <br /> <br />for 7,500 <br /> <br />acre-feet <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Total <br />!I Excludes request by City of Sterling <br /> <br />23 <br />