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at all possible. But to what extent are senior <br />rights below the Narrows site served indirectly <br />by the inefficiency of these two reservoirs? <br />I'm not talking about junior rights, I mean senior <br />rights. Rights which would call water by your <br />heading. And then the other question is, to what <br />extent are the seepage losses and I think that's <br />the biggest part of the inefficiency of the two <br />reservoirs. To what extent would they accrue <br />above Narrows and be storable in the Narrows <br />reservoir if that were the selected site ?" <br />MR. OSBORNE: "I don't think the answer to your problem <br />can be satisfactorily resolved by any engineering <br />methods that we have at the present, completely. <br />I'll revert back to this theory, or it isn't a <br />theory, it's an actual fact, that you have a <br />consumptive use factor on each and every acre of <br />land and irrigation works, and quoting from Mr. <br />Dille, it's close to one acre -foot per acre per <br />year for irrigated land. <br />I think probably on the municipals it will <br />work about the same. As part of Denver grows <br />and the other suburbs grow, you'll find that <br />you have streets and rooftops which will contri- <br />bute more runoff at that particular time and <br />you'll have a more extensive lawn sort of thing. <br />I think you'll find that it will be pretty close <br />to one acre -foot per acre of land involved as <br />taken in rough numbers without a whole lot of <br />figuring. In that respect, let's consider it <br />this way. By the very nature of the basin we <br />have a kind of bowl that comes around in Morgan <br />County and then it narrows up again just before <br />it goes into Logan County. Of course, on expan- <br />sion it could go over and remain wide-as it <br />enters into. Logan by an extention.of"River- <br />side. Then you have.another rather thin sheet <br />that extends down the length -.in .Logan and Sedgwick_. <br />Counties on both sides of .the.river, primarily on <br />the north at that point. We'll find this,_ <br />that if we make one use of the water and the <br />efficiency of the land, the irrigation as applied <br />to the land is one thing. I don't-think.-it's <br />humanly possible to take one acre -foot of water and <br />operate with the methods with which we have to <br />-19- <br />