ArkValley Irrigation Grant Final Report

• Project Type: Ag/Muni Grant
• Applicant: Colorado State University Cooperative Extensions
• Project Name: Improvement of Irrigation Technology in Arkansas River Valley
• Title: Demonstrations of Irrigation Technology to Improve Crop Yields, Returns and Water Quality in the Arkansas River Valley of Colorado Summary and Conclusions
• County: Larimer
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Final Report

Af.lKANSAS V ALLEY JOURNAL -:~ECTl~N~B - APRIL 4, 1996- PAGE}

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Salinity management workshop planned

PUEBLO - Dr. Jim Rhoades, current now within the soli office/Colorado Sallntly
director of the U.S, Salinity profile, This mapping Is done In Diagnosis. Group. The workshop
Laboratory of Riverside. Calif.. comblnallon wIth "Global and field days are being funded
and an Intcrnallonally l<nown PoslUonlng System, In part by a Cooperatlve
salinity expert will speal< April The. workshop Is being Extension grant from the
16 here. Rhoades will be sponsored by Colorado State Colorado Water Conservation
featured at a Salinity University Cooperative Board.
Management Workshop at 7:30 Extension, the CSU-Arkansas For more InformaUon, call (719)
p.m. In the Pueblo County High Valley Research Center and the 254-7608, [phone]. (719)
School library. NRCS-La Junta area 384-5408 or [phone].
-This Is an exceptional
opportunity for fOlrmers In the
Arkansas Valley nrea Lo leOorn
better methods of managing
their salt problems: said Jim
Valliant, regional Irrigation
specialist for Colorado SUlte
University Coopernllve
Extenslon.
Rhoades and his salinity team
will be presenting this worl<shop
as well as doing rapid salinity
mapping during the day at the
Stonewall Spring Farm west of
Nyberg Road Just south of
Highway 50 about 12 miles east
of Pueblo. This rapid salinity
mapping will be done using two
pieces of equipment developed
by Rhoades and hIs team. .
The wenner.array Is n tractor-
mounted chlsel wJth four
electrode sensors that mC<1sures
and logs sol! electrical
conductivity "on-the-go" while In
the soli. The "asSAuLT" unit Is
mounted on a high clearance
tractor and measures saHnlty
using sensors above the soli
producing nn electromagnellc

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