BOARD00836

• Board Meeting Date: 9/6/1956
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Akron, Colorado

August 29, 1956

Mr. Ivan Crawford, Director
Colorado Water Conservation Board
State Office Building
Denver, Colorado

Dear Mr. Crawford:

I

Information accumulated by the recently organized
Washington County Watershed Association leads us to
believe that there is a great need for a complete geological
survey in Washington County to determine the source and
supply of underground water and what could be done to
increase that supply.

The greatest immediate problem is in the Cope area
where a substantial amount of irrigation is carried on
with water pumped from an underground supply. This
area is in the south east corner of Washington County. See
the report of preliminary survey made by Alex D. Elkin,
geologist, which recommends that such a study of underground
water conditions be made of this area. A copy of 'this
report may be obtained from Kenneth W. Chalmers, State
Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, New Customhouse,
Denver, Colo.

There are approximately fifty irrigation wells in this
area with about two thousand one hundred fifty acres under
irrigation. It is estimated the average yield of water
from these wells has decreased about twenty per cent
in the last five years. If the rate of water use remains
constant and recharge conditions remain the same, similar
declines in water supply can be expected.

There are several other areas in Washington County with
problems directly related to ground water. The Town of
Akron, Colorado, is deeply concerned about their water supply.

It is intended to use the results of this survey to
determine the source of supply of this ground water and what
is necessary to increase the recharge. I

For these reasons we believe a complete ground water study
should be made of the area.

Sincerely yours,

W. C. Fa rri s / s

WCF/glr

W. C. Farris, Secretary
Washington County Watershed Assn.