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<br />TABLE B <br />BLOCK IDENTIFICATION IRRIGATED ACRFAGE <br />OOWRFS PROJECT <br /> <br />Block Landowners Area 2/ Water Delivered <br /> (No) (Ac) - (Year) <br />Fairview 47 7,880 1987 <br />Cahone 46 5,965 1987 <br />Pleasant View 14 3,346 1989 <br />Ruin Canyon 27 5,094 1989 <br />Hoovenweep 12 2,196 1989 <br />UOOIlIIlent Creek 13 1,951 1990 <br />Cross Canyon 10 1 ,321 1990 <br />(DOITe Creek Area) <br />Total 169 27.753 <br />Climate <br /> <br />The climate of the project area is essentially semiarid, characterized by low <br />precipitation and humidity, aotmdant sunshine, a fairly wide daily temperature range, <br />and IlDderate westerly winds. As a result of topographic changes, the local climate <br />exhibits large variations within short distances, with increases in precipitation and <br />decreases in tanperature fran southwest to northeast. <br /> <br />Average annual precipitation varies fran less than 10 inches in the southwestern <br />comer of ~ntezt.UIla COLmty to about 20 inches in the northeast. Precipitation varies <br />fran year to year, but on the average Jtme is the driest part of the year and July <br />through October is the wettest. The remaining nxmths are fairly tmifonn. Afternoon <br />showers cannxmly occur during July through mid-September, occasionally reaming <br />thlmder stonn intensity. Damaging stonns and other severe weather conditions are <br />infrequent. The average annual precipitation for the Dove Creek area is approximately <br />13 inches. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The typically clear skies and high solar radiation, canbined with the elevation <br />of the area, result in wann days and cool nights during the spring, SUIIlller, and fall. <br />The days are also canfortably wann during the winter, but the nights are quite cold. <br />Maximum daytime temperatures vary fran about 32-40. F. in Jarrua~ to 80-90. F. in <br />July, with corresponding nightime minimums ranging fran nearly 0 F. to arOlIDd 50. F. <br />Extreme high temperatures of over 100. F. have been recorded twice in Cortez, and <br />extreme low temperatures have dropped below _25. F. The frostfree period varies fran <br />about 100 to 120 days in the Dove Creek area. <br /> <br />Soils <br /> <br />The soils in the DOITe Creek full service area, are presently dry fanned, in <br />reddish hued wind blown deposits. The surface textures are loam or very fine <br />sandy loam with light clay loam subsoils and little or no profile development. <br /> <br />'1:../ Latest Bureau of Reclamation update shows a slight acreage revision fran Table A. <br /> <br />-5- <br />