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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />household and domestic uses, livestock watering, and thA <br />irrigation of lands which are cultivated solely for t:lC <br />purpose of providing food and feed for the householders <br />and domestic livestock actually living or kept on the <br />property" . <br /> <br />~Ili CANADIAN RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />Canadian River Proiecl <br /> <br />Gerlsral <br /> <br />The Can~dian River Project is authorized for municipal water <br />supply and irrigation development. Main features of the project are Sanford <br />Dam and Reservoir; an aqueduct system consisting ef pipe lines and pumping <br />stations connecting the reservoir with the cities requiring vater; and a now <br />sewage disposal plant at Amarillo and Lubbock to serve the irrigable lands. <br /> <br />Sanford Dnm Site is en the Cnnadinn River about ene mile upstream <br />from the town of Sanford, Texas, in southwestern Hutchinson County. The dam <br />would be a rolled~earth-fill structure having a crest length of 7,200 feet, <br />a top width of 40 feet, nnd a maximum height above stream bed of 186 feet. <br />The reservoir created by the dam would extend 20 miles upstrenm and would <br />have n capacity 1,305,000 acre-feet at spilhmy elevation. Maximum capacity <br />resulting from superstorage would be 1,956,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />The irrigation phase of the plan of dovelopment provides for <br />utilization of sewage effluent from the cities of Amarillo and Lubbock. <br />Project plans provide for the relocation of A~Arillo's present se~~ge- <br />disposal plant to a point northeast of the city from which effluent would be <br />pumped to irrigable lands immediately northoast of the sewage-disposal plant. <br />It is estimated the amount of sc~age effluont that will be available for <br />irrigation from the plants at Amarillo and Lubbock will be 40 percent of the <br />estimated total water requirements for those cities. It is estimated the <br />an~ual effluent supply will increase from 6,400 acre-feet in 1950 to 17,200 <br />acre-feet in year 2000 at Amarillo and from 5,600 acre-feet in 1950 to <br />15,200 acre-feet in 2000 at Lubbock. As the effluent is produced every day, <br />the plan of development contemplates that irrigation would be practiced <br />throughout the year. The average annual delivery of water to the farm <br />laterals would be 1.18 acre-feet per acre and the average annual water <br />requirement at the disposal plant would be 1.57 acre-feet per acre after <br />allowing for seepage losses in canals and laterals. The areas that could be <br />furnished a water supply would increase from 4,070 acres in 1950 to 10,930 <br />acres in 2000 at Amarillo, and from 3,560 acres in 1950 to 9,660 acres in <br />year 2000 at Lubbock. The area suitable for irrigation in the vicinity of <br />the present Lubbock sewage-disposal plant and the proposed relocation of the <br />Amarillo plant which cnn be reached ~ith moderate pumping lifts is consider- <br />ably greater than that which would be supplied with water in the year 2000. <br /> <br />Conclusions <br />- <br /> <br />Irrigation from se~age effluent from plants at Amarillo and Lubbocl <br />is part of the authorized plan of developmont of the Canadian River project. <br /> <br />:39 <br />