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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Potatoes and malting barley <br />Center area. There are numerous <br />warehouse in and around Center. <br /> <br />are the principal crops grot1I1 in the <br />potato brokers with grading and sacking <br /> <br />Watershed Problems <br /> <br />The principal watershed problems are the need of storage for late <br />irrigation season use and for an improved distribution system and stream <br />channel to alleviate flooding and winter icing of fields. <br /> <br />Flood Prevention <br /> <br />Floodwater and sediment damages occur to pastures and meadows, <br />irrigation ditches and diversions, County ro&ds and bridges and to the <br />Town of Saguache. <br /> <br />Erosion damage is slight, being mainly occasional scour d&liI&ge on <br />fields. <br /> <br />Drainage <br /> <br />Drainage is not listed as a problem by the sponsors. However, there <br />are areas bel"", Saguache with high water twles. The extent and treatment <br />for these areas will be inventoried during work plan investigation. <br /> <br />/ <br /> <br />Irrigation <br /> <br />Objective of the sponsors is to construct reservoir storage to protect <br />their present decrees by storing waters that are surplus in the winter <br />and most years in the spring from snow melt runoff. This water would <br />be used for late season use. <br /> <br />Adequacy of Water Supply <br />Present Condition 50% Chance Supply (Estimated) <br /> <br />Acres with full supply <br /> <br />13,570 <br /> <br />Acres with partial supply <br /> <br />18,430 <br />32,000 <br /> <br />Total <br /> <br />Future with Reservoir Storage (Estimated) <br />1. 50 percent chance supply <br /> ACNs ",i th potential full supply 25,000 <br />::>< 70 pp.~~p.nt' chanep. f;upply <br /> Acres \,ith potential full supply 21,000 <br /> <br />Water supply is based on 57-years of guage record of both volume and peak <br />flows. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />0678 <br /> <br />