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<br />GDn'13 . <br /> <br />1975 OUTLOOK <br /> <br />Amoco Production Company and Ladd Petroleum Corporation will have an ade- <br />quate water supply in 1975. Bonny storage will also be available for sale <br />to Hale Ditch and other private irrigators under temporary contracts. <br /> <br />The prospects are excellent for hunting, fishing, and recreation uses. <br /> <br />FRENCHMAN UNIT, FRENCHMAN-CAMBRIDGE DIVISION IN NEBRASKA <br /> <br />GENERAL <br /> <br />The transportation of water from Enders Reservoir throuqh 52 miles of <br />Frenchman Creek channel to th~ Culbertson Diversion Dam created an erosion <br />problem that made it necessary to initiate a control and stabilization <br />program in 1964, which is expected to continue until 1978. .The program <br />has restored private access, protected private and public improvements, <br />stabilized various reaches of channel banks, and reduced sediment from <br />the flow in the Culbertson Canal and the stream at the Culbertson Diver- <br />sion Dam. <br /> <br />.:~:::;::-.~' <br /> <br />,. <br />,..;. <br /> <br />i.::' <br /> <br />The Culbertson Canal and the Culbertson Extension Canal systems serve <br />9,600 acres in the Frenchman Valley Irrigation District and. 11,500 acres <br />in t'he IJ & RW Irrigation District. The water supply for these lands is <br />furnished by flows from Frenchman River and St.inking Water Creek rind off- <br />season storage in Enders Keservoir. <br /> <br />The normal operation of Enders Reservoir, with the gradual rise in water <br />surface during the spring months, provides desire.ble fish spawning con- <br />ditions. Large 'irrigation releases substantially lower the pool level <br />by late summer, thereby limiting the fishing ana recreational usage. <br /> <br />1974 SUMMARY <br /> <br />The annual precipitation at Enders Dam was 79 percent of normal, while <br />the annual inflow into Enders Reservoir was below the dry--year forecast. <br />This is the seventh consecutive year with much below-notl71ill inflows. The <br />conservation pool was not filled during 1974. Po t0tal of 3,008 acre-feel: <br />was conserved by purnpback of seepage into the r~servoir betw~en the 1973 <br />and 1974 irrigation seasons. Irrigation releases were stopped the 29th of <br />August with 2,200 acre-feet of active storage remaining. <br /> <br />. " <br /> <br />.:;.-.... <br />.:/. .... <br /> <br />-.~, ;.;- . <br /> <br />The farm delivery averaged about 14 inches per acre for the two districts. <br />A few farmers were able to supplement the;r project water supply from pri- <br />vate irrigation wells. The Frenchman Valley Irrigation District reports <br />that 8,861 acres received water in 1974, and H & RW reports 11,454 acres, <br />which are 92 and 99 percent, respectively, of the lands with service avail- <br />able. The gross crop values for Frenchman Valley Irrigation District was <br />$3,048,051, and for H & R\-I, $4,034,081, I<hich are a 40-percent increase <br />over the previous year. <br /> <br />14 <br />