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<br />('\ <br /> <br />('" <br /> <br />('" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. 11(' <br />~\jll;) <br />9b. Questionable Irrigation Benefits <br /> <br />Neither of these large systems are included in the Lower South Platte <br /> <br />Water Conservancy District. However, both of these systems with a total <br /> <br />of 56,800 acres of irrigable land could receive supplemental water, by <br /> <br />gravity flow, from up-stream channel storage. Smaller systems and land <br /> <br />to be inundated would add 10,000 acres of currently irrigated land that <br /> <br />need additional water. <br /> <br />This would increase the benefited area to an excess of 66,000 acres. <br /> <br />This acreage is 28~ of the total irrigable lands currently receiving water <br /> <br />from the South Platte Hi ver in the area extending from Weld County to the <br /> <br />Colorado-Nebraska line. <br /> <br />Any plan for channel storage, which ignores the necessities of 66,000 <br /> <br />acres of some of the finest irrigated land in the state of Colorado. cannot <br /> <br />be justified or accepted. <br /> <br />Page 6J of report '251 states in the water supply analysis. it has <br /> <br />been assumed that the Weldon Valley Canal water right would be purchased <br /> <br />with the land, and that the project would thus acquire the rights to 165 <br /> <br /> <br />second feet having an October 26, 1881, priority. Page 68 of the report <br /> <br />states that this Weldon Valley Canal water would provide Jl,OOO acre feet <br /> <br />direct yield plus 1,900 acre feet storable. These water rights are not <br /> <br />attached to the land, are private property, and are not subject to condem- <br /> <br />nation. Tt is a certainty that the Narrows Project will not obtain owner- <br /> <br />ship to the major portion of this water because of its application to lands <br /> <br />under adjacent irrigation systems, a procedure which is currently in practice. <br /> <br />z-/ <br />