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<br />problems--salinity problems and also to increase irrigation efficiency. <br />We have made some great progress Over there, and Mr. '.Longley will give <br />us a report on this at this time. <br /> <br />(Whereupon, Mr. Longley presented a slide-illustrated report as follows:) <br /> <br />MR. LONGLEY: I would like to take this time to thank the Board for its <br />support in the past on this matter. <br /> <br />We are now funded for canal lining and the lateral lining. The laterals <br />will all be put in pipe and will start this year in the Reed Wash area. <br />Also, we have the on-farm situation, which is going ahead nicely. <br />Thanks to IvaI and his people in Washington, we got fun~ed fOr 1.75. <br />million to start in the Reed Wash area. TliTs' will be. a.'.complete overhaul of <br />the irrigation system from the farm to the delivery system. By this <br />method, we hope to reduce the salinity by more than 50 percent. <br /> <br />Each irrigated acre in the Grand Valley now produces about six to seyen <br />tons of salt per acre. Each acre that is irrigated over there returns <br />about six tons of salt to the river. There are two things I would Ijke <br />to talk to the Board about today. One is that in this on-farm irriga- <br />tion, we are going. .to have to have continued work with the .farmer to. <br />make this thing work, because you can put in the best irrigation system <br />available on farm and if the farmer doesn't know how to use it and <br />can't follow through with the use of it, it is going to be really diffi- <br />cult .to make it do the job it is supposed to do; that is to reduce the <br />salinity in the Colorado River. <br /> <br />There is one other item in the Orchard Mesa area, which is just above <br />the river and just above this bench here. The Orchard Mesa area is <br />ideally suited for a closed pipe system. In fact, I don't see how we <br />are going to be able to survive up there any longer if. we don't have <br />that kind of irrigation up there, because of the frost. If we have one <br />more frost and disastrous fruit growing season over there, these farmers <br />aren't going to be able to survive--what farmers we have left up there. <br />The whole thing will probably go into subdivisions, and that will be the <br />end of fruit raising up there. <br /> <br />I would like to have some help from -the. .Board: to urge the -Bureau .. <br />to do the very best kind of job possible and to bring them into the <br />20th century as far as irrigation is concerned. I have some:pictures <br />here I want to show of what we have been doing over there with the <br />demonstration project that we have had. <br /> <br />I want to emphasize at this time that if there are any questions, <br />please feel free to ask them during the presentation. <br /> <br />This shows the cliff there and how the water comes out of the shale <br />area. You will notice that it goes deep into the shale and then seeps <br />through the salt area and brings the salt out with it. It doesn't <br />only go through the alluvium and the gravel area, which is just above <br />this, but it comes down into.the shale itself and moves out into the <br />river. <br /> <br />-22- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />