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<br />~ <br />Cj <br />o <br />u:J <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />Basin studies <br /> <br />2. Onfarm project implementation including <br /> <br />a, Technical assistance <br /> <br />b. Financial assistance <br /> <br />c, Educational and informstional assistance <br /> <br />3. Research and demonstration <br /> <br />4, Monitoring and evaluation <br /> <br />Poor water management systems on irrigated agricultural <br /> <br />lands have resulted in excessive distribution system <br /> <br />seepage, over-irrigation. low irrigation efficiencies, <br /> <br />excessive deep percolation and high surface runoff, <br /> <br />Collectively, these problems have resulted in increased <br /> <br />salinity problems by leaching salts into the river system, <br /> <br />Approximately one million acres are irrigated in 17 <br /> <br />identified irrigation salt source areas in the Colorado <br /> <br />River Basin. <br /> <br />SCS estimates onfarm water management and <br /> <br />salinity control measures would be cost-effective on over <br /> <br />600,000 acres in II different salt source areas. <br /> <br />Basin Studies <br /> <br />The Soil Conservation Service conducts salinity control <br /> <br />studies in the Basin, <br /> <br />These studies were done under the <br /> <br />22 <br />