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<br />OJ <br />.... <br />'<:t' <br />",,-oj <br />C,;, <br />('.:J <br /> <br />13. At the Mogate Station, the flow of the Conejos during <br />1925-1936 averaged 243,100 anre-f'eet per year, whioh is 95% of the <br />reported long time (1890-1935) average of 255,600 ll.Ore_f'eet, No <br /> <br />similar long time averages are available as to outflow. <br />1.4. Combining the Rio (~rande and Conejos Index supplies, the <br />Index ini'low during 1925-1936 _s an average of 988,800 acre-feet, the <br /> <br />average outflow (Lobe.tos total) was 3l?3,800 aore-feetl and had the <br /> <br />recomm.ended sohedules been in effeot, the required deliveries would <br />have averaged. 35l.\,lJoO anra-fe<n; per year, representing an average oredit <br />departure of 9.QoO acre..feet per year. <br />15. Future irrigation dlllwlopment in the San Luis Valley <br />requires (a) reservoir regulation, or (b) pumping plants to re-use the <br /> <br />uaters in ground storage, or both. In either event there would, in our <br /> <br />opinion, be an increased oonsumption of _tor. With reservoirs, there <br /> <br />would be addi ti anal _tel' surfaces exposed to evaporation losses. <br /> <br />Exoessive early season applioations, with defioienoies in later 11l0nthll, <br /> <br />tend to increase percolation 10ss08 a.nd returns to the riwr. Spreading <br /> <br />the same water over !l. longer time interval inoreases orop prodUl3tiOll. <br /> <br />thus l.:rwreasl.ng tr6lnspl.ra.tion losses, and inoree.ses soil moisture lilld <br /> <br />soil e'va.porat1 on 10SS6S. SimillU'ly, wi'th pumping plents, - water <br />cannot be re-usod without subjecting it to additional losses 'Whioh <br /> <br />appear as increased consumptl. va use. <br /> <br />-6.. <br />