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<br />< <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />A large porti.on of the area has limited ground water supplies <br />(less than 500 g.p.m.) at shallow depths (often less than 100 feet). These <br />areas are predominantly i.n Grayson, Fannin, Delta, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, <br />Upshur, Bowie, Cass, and Marion Counties with narrow strips of Lamar, Red <br />River, and Harrison Counties. Deeper waters (100 to 200 feet deep) are <br />found in Cooke County, western Grayson County, a narrow band through Fannin <br />County, Camp County, southern Morris County, central Cass County, and <br />southern portions of Upshur and Harrison Counties in the basin. An even <br />deeper water area (more than 200 feet deep) occurs in the vicinity of <br />Daingerfield in Morris, Titus, Camp, and Cass Counties. <br /> <br />Excepting the narrow band along the Red River the topography of <br />most of the areas where ground water is available is rolling to steep and <br />the areas of smooth deep soils occur in small bodies usually less than 20 <br />acres in size. Even so, there are several hundred thousand acres of land <br />which could conceivably be irrigated in this area. <br /> <br />III. Arkansas River Basin <br /> <br />This area offers the greatest potontial for additional irrigation <br />development of any aroa in the Texas portion of the Arkansas-White-Red <br />Ri ver basins. <br /> <br />The northern and western portions of Dallam County have had some <br />development but data on ground waters and availability of suitable soils <br />indicate that there is a potential for fu~ther development in this shallow <br />water (less than 100 feet) area. By going deeper (100 to 200 feet) <br />considerable development can be made in western Hartley County, Sherman <br />County, northwestern three-fourths of Hansford County, northern Moore and <br />Hutchinson Counties, and southwestern corner of Lipscomb County. ~ going <br />to depths in excess of 200 feet, development can be made in tho rest of <br />Dallam County, eastern Hartley County, southwestern Sherman County, western <br />Moore County, southeastern Hansford County, most of Ochiltree County, north- <br />eastern Hutchinson County, and northern Roberts County. The short growing <br />season and wind erosion hazards somewhat limit irrigation development in <br />this area, but there is still a potential for developing several hundred <br />thousand acres for irrigation from ground waters. <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br /> <br />There is a potential for developing more than a million.acres of <br />land for use of irrigation from ground waters in the portion of the Red and <br />Arkansas River Basins in Texas. <br /> <br />There is considerably more land available than can be served by <br />the present known ground water supplies. <br /> <br />Irrigation practices may vary from the semi-arid western portion <br />where nearly all the moisture for plant growth is furnished by irrigation <br />to conditions in the humid east where irrigation may be used only during <br />extreme drouths or for specialized crops. <br /> <br />50 <br /> <br />