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<br />45 <br /> <br />1 figures that Mr. Hjermstad may have quoted; but, first, the <br /> <br />2 estimated cost of the project is a hundred -- excuse me, <br /> <br />3 $97,000 is the estimated cost of the three-month program bein <br /> <br />( proposed. <br /> <br />5 The estimated yield of water is 107,000 acre feet <br /> <br />6 This breaks down to 9l~ per acre foot including the cost of <br /> <br />7 research which is estimated at 35~, so the actual cost of <br /> <br />8 the demonstration portion of the project is estimated at 56~ <br /> <br />9 per acre foot. This is based on long-time' averages that Mr. <br /> <br />10 HjermstaCl has prepared. <br />11 In cooperation with Mr. CrosbJ::' we estimated that <br /> <br />12 about one-third of the water, new water that would be pro- <br /> <br />13 duced, would cross the state line in the Rio Grande River, <br /> <br />1( that about 20% would be lost in the closed basin. This is <br /> <br />15 an underground basin that there apparently is no return to <br /> <br />16 the stream. <br /> <br />17 The remaining 42% we estimated would be consumed <br /> <br />18 by agriculture. An average cumulative use per acre figure <br /> <br />19 for land at that elevation is approximately one and a half <br /> <br />20 acre feet per acre. This would mean, then, that there would <br /> <br />21 be about 25,000 acre feet of water that would be consumed by <br /> <br />22 the agricultural plants and evaporated from the surface of <br /> <br />23 the land producing these plants. <br />24 This would be equivalent to about 16,000 acres <br /> <br />25 of land being fully irrigated with the new water that would <br />