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<br />Table 2 TOTAL IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENTS
<br />
<br />Productive area (Acres)
<br />
<br />Irrigation service area
<br />
<br />Full
<br />service
<br />land
<br />
<br />Pothook Canal.............
<br />Willow Creek Exchange.....
<br />
<br />11,860
<br />
<br />Savery Reservoir:
<br />~lajor project area.....
<br />Two Bar area............
<br />Subtotal........ It It.
<br />
<br />5,420
<br />3,320
<br />8,740
<br />
<br />Total
<br />
<br />20,600
<br />
<br />Annual Ideal l~ater Require-
<br />ment (Acre-Feet)
<br />
<br />Supple-
<br />mental
<br />service
<br />land
<br />
<br />Total
<br />
<br />At
<br />lateral
<br />he ads
<br />
<br />Convey-
<br />ance
<br />losses
<br />
<br />Total
<br />
<br />750
<br />250
<br />
<br />12,610
<br />250
<br />
<br />37,400
<br />800
<br />
<br />15,600
<br />
<br />53,000
<br />800
<br />
<br />11,440
<br />110
<br />11,550
<br />
<br />12,550
<br />
<br />16,860
<br />3,430
<br />20,290
<br />
<br />50, 100
<br />12,000
<br />62,100
<br />
<br />4,800
<br />6,400
<br />11,200
<br />
<br />26,800
<br />
<br />54,900
<br />18,400
<br />73 , 300
<br />
<br />127,100
<br />
<br />33,150
<br />
<br />100,300
<br />
<br />Source: Savery-Pothook Project, Colorado-Wyoming, House Document No. 461, 87th
<br />Congress, 2nd Session (U.S. Government Printing Office, Pashinpton, D. C.: 1962)
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<br />11ater Supply.--II/ater supply and operation studies for the Savery-Pothook Project
<br />
<br />were made for the 24-year period 1929 throuph 1952. Durinp: this ti~e the water
<br />
<br />supply with the project constructed would very nearly be adequate to meet require-
<br />
<br />ments as indicated. An averap:e irrigation shortage of 4.2 percent of demand would
<br />
<br />occur. This shortage results from shortapes of a much more substantial nature in
<br />
<br />several years, and no shortage in several other years, Rather serious shortages
<br />
<br />would have occurred in three years, 1934, 1936, and 1940, with the shortages being
<br />
<br />51, 10, and 23 percent, respectively. Lesser shortages ranying from one to five
<br />
<br />percent would have occurred in 1939, 1941, 1943, and 1944. II/hen the water-supply
<br />
<br />studies were extended five additional years to 1957, an additional year of shortage
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<br />(about 10 percent) occurred in 1955.-
<br />
<br />If water-supply studies were extended through 1963, it is quite likely that
<br />
<br />additional shortages would be revealed. The frequency of rather severe water
<br />
<br />8/ Ibld. P. 16-17
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