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<br /> VALUE OF PROPERTY IN FLOOD PLAIN
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<br /> , Badi to to , End of Canyon Section I
<br />Feature , Canyon Section , to Mouth of River I Total
<br /> I $ I $
<br />Roads and Bridges , 100,000 . 90,000 , 190,000
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<br />Cha~nel Improve- , , I
<br />ments , 4,000 , 12,000 I 16,000
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<br />Railroad Bridge , 45,000 , 0 . 45,000
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<br />Public utilities , 0 , 55,000 I 52.000
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<br />Irrigated Land & I I I
<br />Fram Improvements I 6,400 I 12,000 I 18,400
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<br />Pa 8t ure land: ~,800 I 11,600 , 15.400
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<br />Irrigation Hdwks. I 17,600 , 60,000'" , 77,.600
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<br />Totals , 176,800 I 24D ,600 , 417,400
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<br />'" Does not include Orlando No. 5 diversion dam and pressure pipe line,
<br /> located in oanyon secti on and not subjeot to damage by floods.
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<br />As a basis for estimating crop losses, a table is set up 'in the rs-
<br />port showing yield and value of the specifio crops grown in the flood plain.
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<br />AVERAGE ANNUAL YIELD AND VALUE OF CROPS SUBJECT TO FLOODING
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<br /> I Average Yield Average Value of I Total Value Of :' .,,'t
<br />Crops , Aores , Per Aore Crop Per Aors'" , Crop
<br /> , I ;V,\-(jl J(.-% ::p . $ I-/S5
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<br />Alfalfa, 1~5 I 't:>"O/( ~ tons 11,,'/1 I 28.50 I ~,848 -I,
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<br />Corn , M ,,'~',1l'35 bushels' ""'-, 21.91 I 986
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<br />Wheat 65 "_( 40 bushels ",/1<'1 ~~.60 I 2,184 J,16 ,
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<br />Totals I 245 I I 28.64 7.018
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<br />. Crop values are average state_ide values for the years of 1923
<br /> to 1936. taken from, "S\:;atistics of Irrigated Crops". given in
<br /> Appendix 5 of "Water Resources of Colorado".
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