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<br /> <br />134a <br />APPENDIX II. <br />FARM ACREAGE AND WATER RIGHTS <br /> <br />BUILDING THE FARM <br /> <br /> ACREAGE WATER RIGHTS <br />Date Purchased Leased Purchased Leased <br /> Acres Acres Acres(Acre Feet) Acres (Acre Feet) <br />1953 40 21 (94.5) <br />1959 80 17 (76.5) <br />1970 20 <br />1975 80 80 (360) <br />1980 13 <br />1984 34 34 (153) <br /> 56 56 (252) <br />1987 19 (85.5) <br />1991 12 <br />TOTALS: 153 57 (256.51 <br /> <br />DISMANTLING OF THE FARM <br /> <br />ACTION PENDING THAT WOULD INVALIDATE <br />WATER ALLOCATIONS <br /> <br />ACRE FEET OF WATER IN <br />JEOPARDY <br /> <br />1. Water owned and later transferred to <br />other land on the farm...........................22.5 <br /> <br />2. Water owned but for land later declared <br /> <br />not irrigable.................................... 18.0 <br /> <br />3. Water purchased and transferred from <br />, land outside the farm............................ 66.5 <br /> <br />4. Soil arbitrarily reclassified and water allocation <br />reduced from 4.5 AF/acre to 3.5 AF/acre..........19.0 <br /> <br />TOTAL: <br /> <br />126.0 <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br /> <br />Of 153 acres purchased over 30 years, a total of 57 were eventually <br />water-righted and could be farmed. Court decisions that are pending, <br />as well as changes in administrative policy, threaten to take away <br />126.0 acre feet of 256.5 acre feet total (49%), without compensation. <br /> <br />369 <br />