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<br />I have already mentioned that one problem as it relates to the <br />funding level. The USDA appropriation is an annual appropriation. <br />The Chairman of the Appropriations Committee has said that there will <br />be $1.7. million per year for 10 years, but that is only a verbal <br />commitment. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Any questions? (No response.) Thank you, . very much. <br /> <br />MR. LONGLEY: . I would like to comment that ,the Soil Conservation <br />Service has been tremendous working with us on this project.. The <br />amount of help we have gotten from the local office here and the people <br />in it and the personnel and 'everything' has just been really very fine. <br />We enjoyed working with them. <br /> <br />(Whereupon, Mr. Longley's remarks were accompanied by a slide <br />presentation.) -- <br /> <br />I have a few slides here which I~would like 'to show you. <br /> <br />Now, this particular project doesn't have anything to do with Grand <br />Valley, but it represents the effort of a co~ple of individuals over <br />here on the North Fork area. These producers came to me about two <br />years ago and decided that they wanted to put in 80 acres: of ground <br />mini"';sprinklers, Roberts Irrigation type sprinklers. I have one in <br />my pocket here that you might pass around. But these little, very <br />simple, pieces of equipment are designed and set up to cost about six <br />cents apiece. This whole area was put in. The problem that they had <br />was- that they had about 120 gallons. a minute for 40 acres., which would <br />normally irrigate maybe five or six acres. And now they are going to <br />irrigate'40 acres with that. The other thing was that it was going to <br />be a massive project. They wanted to go into something big. So it <br />called for 9,650 on the 80-acre property.. These trees are serviced by <br />these little sprinklers, one apiece. And the water wasn't enough to go <br />around all at the same time,: so we had to put in valves in there to <br />separate this water and put it all around. <br /> <br />Now, there are seven valves on this particular plot, 40-acre plot <br />here, and it is. sequenced around the seven areas over a l7-hour <br />period. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Now, this is when the trees grow big, and they need 30 gallons.of <br />water a day. <br /> <br />This shows the reservoir that they have. constructed there in the pipe <br />line area. All the pipe line is below four feet to keep it out of <br />the frost line. The laterals to the trees, the small polyethylene <br /> <br />-22- <br />