WSP03785

• File Number: 8543.200
• Description: Projects in the Closed Basin
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1957
• Title: Work Plan - 1957
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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MAY 7 - 1957

WORK PLAN - 1957

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Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station -- Project 13, "Improvement,
Management, am Classification of Poorly Drained Soil of the San
Luis Valley of Colorado"

I. Cooperating Agencies:

Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. D. I.
Agricultural Research Service, U. S. D. A.; Soll am '.ater Research
Division, Plant Relationships Section, U. S. Salinity Laboratory
MOsca-Hooper Soil Conservation District
The Colorado Agricultural Extension Service
The Soil Conservation Service, U. S. D. A.

II. Personnel:

Project Leader.

W. T . Franklin, Assistant Agronomist ( Soils), Colorado Agri-
cultural Experiment Station

Advisors.

Robert S .Whitney, Agronomist (Soils), Colorado Agricultural
Experiment Station
W. E. Code, Irrigation Engineer, Colorado Agricultural Experi-
ment Station
R. C. Reeve, Agricultural Engineer, U. S. Salinity Laboratory,
United States Department of Agriculture
W. H. Sweet, Bureau of Reclamation

III. Objectives:

1. To determine the optinnun level, or levels, of the water table
for efficient irrigation and drainage.
2. To study the efficiency of methods of controlling salinity and
exchangeable bases, including irrigation, drainage, soil amend-
ments, and leaChing.
3. To determine the crop management practices which will contribute
to soil improvement and increased production.
4. To study the effects of irrigating with drainage >'ater with and
without amendments, on salinity, alkali, soll structure, and
plant growth.
5. To improve the techniques and standards for classifying the
poorly drained saline and alkali salls of the San Luis Valley.

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