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3724 Opponents argue that this will result in economic loss to them and I think this argu- ment can't be accepted without some examina- tion. They argue that the water which is clarified by this permanent pool will result in loss. As between silt laden and clear water, there is no doubt that wider coverage can be obtained from silt laden water. How- ever, this is a two-edge thing. Stated another way, it can be said that clear water provides better penetration. I, too, have irrigated with an irrigating shovel and for my limited lifetime probably as much as anyone in the room. I know there are times when penetration is a problem. When your water runs across the land and a run comes and goes, it is hard to determine that you've received any benefit from it because of the silt con- tent of it. I I point this out, the farmers along the Snake River in Idaho irrigate with clear water. The farmers of the High plains of Texas, western Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, who irrigate with water from wells, irrigate with clear water. The farmers below the Grand Coulee Project irrigate with clear water. The farmers below the Elephant Butte Dam irrigate with clear water. The farmers in the Imperial Valley and the Salt River Valley irrigate with clear water. The water diverted from the western slope to northern Colorado is clear water and the water that will be diverted by the Fry-Ark Project will be clear water. When a flood control project is built at Trinidad on the purgatoire River it will serve as a sediment trap and tend to clarify the water. When the dam is built above Pueblo as a part of the Fry-Ark Project it will also serve as a sediment trap and will tend to clarify the water. The rain that falls from the heavens is clear water and every single farmer and rancher of the High Plains is concerned with increasing the pene- tration of this water delivered to him by natural process. I