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<br />WATERSHED WORK PLAN <br /> <br />SEDGWICK-SAND DRAWS WATERSHED <br />Colorado and Nebraska <br /> <br />December 1975 <br /> <br />SUMMARY OF THE PLAN <br /> <br />Description, Size and Location <br /> <br />The Sedgwick-Sand Draws Watershed covers an area of 104.2 square miles <br />or 66,714 acres in parts of Sedgwick County, Colorado and Cheyenne and <br />Deuel Counties, Nebraska. The w"tershed is 17 miles in length, averages <br />about six miles in width, and consists of 16 southeasterly-trending <br />ephemeral watercourses, mostly unnamed, which originate mainly in <br />Nebrask" and flow into the South Platte River in Colorado. <br /> <br />Twenty percent of the watershed is irrigated, cropland, 41 percent is <br />nonirrigated cropland, 36 percent is rangeland, and 3 percent is miscell- <br />aneous. Ninety percent of the watershed is private land and 10 percent <br />rsus'fate- lancr:'Lan,rvalues-pe-r-acr,,'ar-,,-rSSO for irrigated, cropland and <br />urban land; $125 for nonirrigated cropland, .and $60 for rangeland. <br /> <br />Sponsoring.Organizations <br /> <br />This work plan was prepared by the Sedgwick County Soil Conservation <br />District. the Sedgwick-Sand Draws Watershed Conservancy District, the <br />Sedgwick County Board of Commissioners, the Julesburg Irrigation District, <br />Town Council of Ovid and the Colorado State Soil Conservation Board in <br />Colorado, and by the South Platte Natural Resources District in Nebraska. <br /> <br />Technical assistance was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture <br />through the.Soil Conservation Service and the Forest Service, the Colorado <br />Division of Wi ldl ife, the Colorado State Forester, the Nebraska State <br />and Extension Forester, and the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission. <br />