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<br />black pipe, half-inch pipe, there is 200;000 feet of 'polyethylene, pipe <br />put in there. This reservoir contains almost a million'gallons of <br />water. <br /> <br />They first had to'dig all these pipelines throughther~,'and there is <br />a maze of plastic pipe that went into this thing to start out with. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This shows some of the lictle trees after they first got planted. <br />put this whole thing in this spring. If you recall, it was muddy <br />there, and we had a lot of problems. But they fought it out, and <br />have everything going, and the trees are growing, for gosh sakes! <br />They are really starting out great. We have some goodcstock, and you <br />can see the little red sprinklers there, and we have a mass of little: <br />trees out there now doing fine. <br /> <br />We <br />out <br />they <br /> <br />So the whole system will do a tremendous job of'water use. Maybe <br />about a sixth.of the amount of water that normally would_be used in,an <br />area. This is what we look forward to, today. <br /> <br />Actually; I visited, with 'Mr. Roberts, who made these sprinklers, this <br />past year, and he has, in his orchard~-he has some orange groves out <br />in California~-and this,man has produced 45 tons of oranges-per acre. <br />I think there are two groves there of about 20 acres apiece that had <br />done this. And this consistently does this over a long period. So <br />he has really got production. And this is:what.we can expect. <br /> <br />Now, one of the great things about this particular orchard now is that <br />it is going to be kind of a labor-saving deal, because, notice, he can <br />just run over there anywhere. Everything is underground. The only <br />thing that appears are these little sprinklers right next to the trees. <br />So he will go in:'there in'the fall when these trees: are big"-as a' <br />matter of fact, he will harvest by the middle of July, somewhere <br />between the 4th and the middle of July, to harvest these things. So <br />it is a: different harvest season from:his regular'production, and that <br />will work into that. They just shake the trees, and the produce is <br />taken down to the:Skyline Industries there; and they make them for pies. <br />These are all pie cherries. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This shows the device that he puts in to screen the water with. This, <br />is 100 mesh screen on that deck there, and when the.water gets up so- <br />high, there is a little float valve on 'the side of that thing that <br />says: '''Now, the screen is getting dirty because the water is coming <br />up too high~" So it starts the brush and then brushes-the dirt off <br />the screen~ I was out there one day, and it worked:very well, extremely <br />well. As you can see, some of the water coming in there is not all <br />that clean, but it sure is clean when it comes out. <br /> <br />-23- <br />