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<br />0': <br />ex) <br />0':; <br /> <br />c: <br /> <br />Evaluation Area C - This area includes pro ject lands located on <br />Grandview Mesa. These lands are generally interspersed with those <br />lands of evaluation area B. Direct diversion water is furnished by <br />the Clipper and Grandview di tches. Average water shor tages in the <br />past have amounted to about 25 percent of requirements. The direct <br />flow water will be supplemented by storage water from the Crawford <br />Reservoir delivered through the Aspen Canal. Evaluation area C has <br />the same length of growing season as evaluation area B. <br /> <br />Soils are moderately deep wi th medium-textured surfaces and moderately <br />fine to fine-textured subsoils, are underlain with poorly consolidated <br />shales and sandstones, have a medium water intake rate and a medium <br />water-holding capaci ty. The dominant slopes range from six to eight <br />percent. <br /> <br />Crops will be predominately alfalfa hay and pasture with small grains <br />being grown following the breaking out of old stands of hay or pasture <br />and as a nurse crop for new stands. Some corn silage will be grown on <br />the flatter slopes. <br /> <br />Evaluation Area D - This comprises an area of nonirrigated land located <br />in the western part of the project on Grandview Mesa. I t is the largest <br />area of nonirri gated land in the project and wi 11 probably provide the <br />only new farm units developed. <br /> <br />The Grandview ditch will furnish direct diversion water. This will be <br />supplemented by water stored in the Crawford Reservoir delivered through <br />the Aspen Canal. The growing season of these lands is comparable wi th <br />those in evaluation areas B and C. <br /> <br />Soils are moderately deep, have a medium-textured surface, a moderately <br />fine to fine-textured subsoil, a medium water intake rate, and a medium <br />water-holding capacity. The dominant slopes range from six to eight <br />percent. <br /> <br />Crop yields on evaluation area D will be slightly higher than those on <br />evaluation area C. <br /> <br />Evaluation Area E - These lands are located in small isolated tracts <br />along the lower SIlli th Fork River and those lands in the northeast <br />portion of the project.above the Needle Rock di tch. They receive <br />irrigation water from diversions on the Smith Fork River and from <br />Coal Creek. Present water supplies for the lower SIlli th Fork lands <br />will not be materially changed with construction of the project. How- <br />ever, those lands located in the Coal Creek portion of this evaluation <br />area will receive some additional water under project operations. <br />This additional water will not completely meet the irrigation require- <br />ments for these lands but will result in a measurable improvement in <br />water supply and in increased yields. <br /> <br />- 6 - <br />