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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />'I <br />I <br />I I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />record studied. <br /> <br />Based on the definitlon of "safe yield" being the avallable storage during a <br />critlcal dry period the safe yield would be 1,700 acre-feet as recorded in 1951. <br />The Soll Conservatlon Service (SCS) in their study of the district in 1975 <br />determined the safe yield to be 2,400 acre-feet ba_sed on .a__19 percent probabll- <br />ity. For the purposes or-tills report the firm yield used wlll be that accepted by- <br />the SCS, <br /> <br />D. Water Quality. The water quality of Mountain Home Reservoir is not expected <br />to be a problem. Due to the turnover of the reservoir each year a bulld up of <br />salts and other minerais is not expected, The water supplying the reservoir is <br />runoff from the mountains and should be of good quality. No major pollutlon <br />sources are upstream of the reservoir and most of the runoff is from tlmberland, <br />sage brush fiats. and pasture land. Some silt 10ad is expected due to the nature <br />of the solls in the area, but is not expected to be severe, The water may tend <br />to be somewhat alkaline due to the soll in the area but should not be severe <br />enough to be a problem. <br /> <br />PAGE IV-3 <br />Olapter IV - Ibmtain IbDe Reservoir <br />