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<br />001880 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />INFLOW TO NAVAJO DAM <br /> <br />The recorded runoff of the San Juan River near Blanco was used <br /> <br />for the inflow to Navajo Dam until 1955 . Ditches diverting above the <br /> <br />Blanco gage serve the presently irrigated areas between the dam and <br /> <br />Farmington. Citizens Ditch near Turley is the largest of these diversions. <br /> <br />DIVERSIONS OF CITIZENS DITCH NEAR TURLEY <br />Diversion Acre-Feet <br /> <br />1951* <br />52 <br />53 <br />54 <br />1955 <br />56 <br />57 <br /> <br />65,078 <br />71,410 <br />72,380 <br />80, 600 <br />68,250 <br />67,940 <br />74,180 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Total <br />Mean <br /> <br />499,838 <br />71,405 <br /> <br />* January and February record missing. <br /> <br />Tpe Bloomfield Irrigation District, formerly Citizens and Bloom.. <br /> <br />field-Porter ditches, has a licensed water right for 13,471.6 acre-feet <br /> <br />to be delivered to the land. There are applications pending for diver- <br /> <br />sions of 7,200 acre-feet additional for irrigation, municipal and <br /> <br />industrial and domestic use. A very small portion of the return flow <br /> <br />from this diversion enters the river above the Blanco gage. <br /> <br />Historically, as shown above, diversions to these rights have <br /> <br />been greatly in excess of these decreed amounts. Thus, the use of <br /> <br />the Blanco gage gives a conservative estimate of the inflow to Navajo <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-':No;- <br />20 <br /> <br />-<~ <br />