WSP00118

• File Number: 8449.921
• Description: Lower Platte Tri-County Project Water Demand & Power Studies
• State: NE
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 1/1/1923
• Author: Univer. Of Nebraska
• Title: Report of Certain Investigations on the Central Nebraska Supplemental Irrigation Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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REPORT OF SECRETARY

rainfall and probably less important in crop production than' the
factor of distribution. Jt' is recognizerl, Of course, that if the total"
rainfall is so' low as to preclude any possibility of crop production'o
distribution is not an. important factor, since'an' insufficient total
cannot be so distributed, as to meet the crop requirements, but within',;
rather broad limits distribution is more. important than the,total annual
rainfalL. The annual rainfall, yearly' variations, and, average for
Hastings, . Minden and Holdrege, are shown graphically in Figure 1.

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"TABLE l"':"'-Monthly and Annual Precipitation. at Holdre"ge, Nebraska,
1004-1923.

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1904 I .181 .10\ .071 1.931 3.90 3.86 2.821.3.47 1.63 3.43 .10 .20 21.69
1905 .801 1.70 .20 4.80 ~"86 11.83 6.211 2.26 3.60 .10 1.85 .0 40.21
1906 .301 .701 1.85 7.90 1.40 .92 4.80 4.46 2.87 3.901 1.04 1.12 30.76
, 1907 .30\ .551 .40 .13 3.99 . 7:68 2.15 3.20 .2.47 .67 . .05 .70 22.89
1908 I .50 1.251, T. .75 6.75 4.20 3.48 5.45 .52 3.54 .86 .0 . 27.30
1909 I .10 2.2.011.40 1.03 1.53 2.81 3.66 2.28 1.67 1.35 2.58 1.23 21.84
1910 I .90 .07 .00/ .29 '2.50 1.491 3.00 5.73 2.03 1.30 .28 1.10 18.6~
1911 I .60 .881 .30 1.28 2.62 1.60 4.14 6.19 . ,96 2.27 .04 1.00 21.88
1912 ,".6 1,121 2.60 1.80 .30 2.88 2.97 2.09 1.41 .81 1.15 .02 17.70
1913 I .251 1.301 1.45 [ 4.12. 1.31 2.631 .56 1.05 2.84 T .32 . ~.191 20.02
1914 I T'j .40 .841 ..9512.:2~ 2.21 2.8712.45 1.44 2.0. .0 .76 16.26
1915 I .5911.15 1.76 3.63 6:99 '9.i3 7.48 6.20 2.60 .50 .35 .35 40.73
1916 .421 .55. .36 2.631 3.62..4.85' 2.32 7.19 .25 1.06 .10 .50 23.84'
1917 \ .27 . .231 .221 2.14\ 5.561 1.53' .53 1.23 3.48 .42 1.75 . .08 17.5~
1918 1:16 .851 .2211.23 2.661 .62 4.71 2.73 .87 1.05 2.02 2.22 . 20.3~
1919 I .08 1.651 1.401 3.71 2.611 5.44 4.14 .48 1.80 2.17 1.78 .67 . 26.83
1920 .05 .351 .351 3.91 .80 1.16 1.25 3.16 .07 1.41 .49 .67 13.67
1921 I ..80 .261 .39 2.88 5.65 2.22 3.21 1.17 2.23 .35 .37 .20 19.72
1922 I .601 .011 1.0412.98 3.22 4.40 2.85 1.34 .42 .33 1.28 . .05 18.62
1923 I .05 :151 1.13 4.24 7.38. 5.72 i.97 2.40 2.50 1.57 .42 .21 . 27.7.4

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