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Crops grown in the service area include alfalfa hay, corn, a small amount of beets, and pasture grass. <br />An approximate division of crops and planted acreage is as follows. <br />Crop Type No. of Acres <br />Alfalfa Hay 1800 <br />Corn 2350 <br />Pasture Grass 1000 <br />Beets 50 <br />5200 acres <br />Average crop yields per acre in this area are: 3.5 tons of alfalfa hay, 150 bushels of corn, and 21 tons <br />of beets. <br />The soils in the service area consist of predominantly Table Mountain-Paoli-Caruso association and <br />Otero-Nelson-Tassel Association. These soils are shallow to deep, neazly level, well drained to <br />poorly drained, fine sandy loams formed in alluvium and/or weathered from sandstone and modified <br />by wind. These soils include those in the Farnuf Series, the Loveland Series, the Nunn Series, the <br />Paoli Series, the Satanta Series, the Satanta Variant, and the Table Mountain Series. These soils <br />range from Fluvaquents that are nearly level soils on flood plains, low terraces, and bottom lands; <br />to clay loams, sandy loams, and residual soils derived from sandstone. Most of the soils are suitable <br />for imgated pasture and hay with a high percentage of the soils suitable for irrigated crops such corn, <br />beets, and barley . These soils generally are in the group B and C hydrologic class with soil <br />permeabilities in the range of 0.6 to 2.0 inches per hour with some as high as 6.0 inches per hour; <br />available water capacity is generally in the range of 0.12 to 0.18 inches per inch of soil; and water <br />intake capacity from moderate to high. <br />The precipitation in the Fort Collins to Windsor area averages 14.6 inches, relative humidity is about <br />30 to 35 percent in summer and about 40 to 50 percent in winter. The length of the growing season <br />in this area is approximately 145 days with the average for the last killing frost in the spring being <br />June 4`~ and the first killing frost in the fall being October ls` <br />LAND OWNERSHIP <br />The land in the project service is primarily private farms, ranches, and some individual home sites. <br />All of the land serviced by the Company is privately owned. <br />WATER RIGHTS <br />The Lake Canal Company Reservoir Company has issued 160 shares of water stock which is <br />presently owned by 49 stockholders. All of the stock is privately owned and used for agricultural <br />purposes. All the water is delivered to the Lake Canal Ditch by a diversion from the Box Elder <br />Creek. The Lake Canal Ditch is owned by The Lake Canal Company which is a separate company <br />Gray Reservoirs-Feasibility Study Page 3 <br />