BOARD02195

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

feasibility. A second well was then drilled
quickly because of the imperative need for
water.

The results, $10,500 capital investment,
$1.00 an acre-foot for power, 1500 acre-feet
for the year, equal to 1/4 of all the water I
delivered from Prewitt Reservoir this year.
The net drawdown to date of only a few feet.
With known gravel deposits, easily 3 times the
water could have been extracted from the same
wells by increasing the size of the pumps, and
paying the price for all of the water being
lifted a greater distance.

The $10 million estimated as cost of
right-of-way alone for Narrows would install
at $5,000 each, 2,000 wells and pumps such as
the above. If the location were such that a
rechargeable aquifer exists such as where
these were found, there could be in anyone
season 1,500,000 acre-feet pumped and a really
95 percent efficient reservoir created under-
ground for 500,000 acre-feet based upon the
prObable net consumptive use within the area.
Now, you understand gentlemen, just because
you pull 500 acre-feet out of a well in any
one season you are not consuming all of that.
A certain amount of it percolates back into
the ground, a little of it goes here and there,
and perhaps the net consumptive use in some
instances will hold to half and in some in-
stances may only be a third.

I will speak out just a little bit more
and divert from the printed tex~. The U. S.
Geological Survey estimates there are some 12
million acre-feet of water in the underground
from Kersey to the Nebraska state line, and I
we are fooling around with surface flows in
hundreds of thousands of acre-feet annually.
We have these recurring droughts and they are
in cycles and since they are, we need some
method in order to bridge and bring out the
averages, such as the Bureau has used. I want
to point out just a little bit more that the