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<br />11I\ <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />..\ <br /> <br />:::luring the seas a!'! of l'~:'.l, tl'ere were 3,200 acres of land <br />served with water and 12,000 acre-fe8t of water were pumped, <br />~aking a g~oss iuty of 3.75 acre-feet, which incl~dei a.loss in <br />delivery of 23.7 per cent., mai:ing a net duty of 2.87 ~cre-feat <br />per acre. <br />grom our exnerience in the ,ast, we find the periods of <br />demanu are es follows: <br /> <br />August l8 per cent. <br /> <br /> <br />'Sentember 16 per cent. <br /> <br /> <br />October 10 per cent. <br /> <br />April 5 per cent. <br />May 13 per cent. <br />June 18 par cent. <br />July 20 per cent. <br />Fifty-six per cent, of the water is used ir. June, July and <br />August, and this result was obtsined by enccuruging early and <br />late irrtgation tn ord.",r~to flE',tten the peak of the demand during <br />the hottest pErt of the Season. <br />The crest of the flood on the Gunnison ~iver usually p~sses <br />the Red Lands diversion the early f(1rt of June, and in 1920 it <br />amounted to 36,800 second-feet at the peak. In Se~tember of the <br />same year, we diverted the entire flow of the river fora week, <br />which amounted to 430 seoO'nd-feet, a::Od tor tVIO days only 225 <br />second-:'eet. <br />Above tIle :ted :;:'",nds 1i'lersion the largest water user is the <br />Uncompahgre ?ro~ect. 3~' means of th"ir diversio:1 on the Gunniscn <br />River. throu;;:!: the ir tnnnel, and on t'1c Uncol!!pahgre River above <br />Montrose, the:,- take all of the 10V! water flow of these ril"e~'s. <br />Some of the return waters on the Uncomnahgre are diverted 2t <br />points below l',iontrose. On tbe IJorth l"orl: of the Gunnison, which <br /> <br />G.J. <br />