BOARD02093

• Board Meeting Date: 5/18/1979
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

:The County Committee is made up of people who are the ones that'
appropriate. They are farmers that are elected by their peers, the
farmers in Mesa County: They look at the practical side of what the-
farmer requests. If it looks good, they refer this request to the
Soil Conservation Service for feasibility engineering and layout
design. ' ..

We think that the practices that we are putting in the impact area
probably will have quite a little effect on the abatement or reduction
of salinity in that area.

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Thank you.

MR. SPARKS: ,I might point out fOJ.""the board . that one of the problems
we had initially with this project was that we were concerned that
there would 'not be 'enough effort for on-farm improvements. Part and.
parcel of, the salinity control, is not just simply to line the canals.
We have to do on-farm work also, and,this is where the Soil Conservation
Service comes ,into the picture. We have had problems getting funding.

Now, do you anticipate 'any great problems with future, funding?-

MR. OTT: We were told when this program opened that we
for this program at this rate for:a period of:10 years.
that long to do it.

would be funded
It would take

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MR. SPARKS:" You say, "at this rate." You are talking about approxi-
mately a million dollars-a year?

MR. OTT: Yes. 1:7 million this:year.

MR. SPARKS: So'we are talking then about some 17 million in 10 years?

MR. OTT: Yes.

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MR. VANDEMOER: 'Being a stranger to the impact area, how much of Mesa
County--what percentage of Mesa County are we talking:about?

MR. OTT: The ,~mpact-area?

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MR. VANDEMOER: Yes.

MR. OTT: The agricultural area of Mesa County--it probably ,comprises
about a fourth of the ~rrigated'agricultural area.

MR. VANDEMOER: The impact are~a is one-fourth of your total farm area?

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