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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- 7 - <br /> <br />The water cClllDllissioner said that last year, between Keenesburg and the <br />Lord Reservoir, the farmers liere pwnp1ng each othar dry. As of the 28th <br />of August in this wet year of 1957, the vater was seen to be running into <br />and out of all main reservoirs. Everything looked green and the partly <br />tilled reservoirs looked beautif'tU.. <br />In Prospect Valley the water situation beCSllle serious during the <br />drouth of 1932 IIJId a development compllIV" was employed to make a survey of <br />irrigation well possib1l1ties. Until that time o~ One irri8ation well <br />was in operation. The developnent camP8.ll;Y, by test drilling, foUIld a good <br />li"ater produc1ng gravel, running 10 mles north and south being one mle wide <br />at the south end which started in Section .34 of Township IN. Range 63W, and <br />spread out as it went north untllit was 5 miles wide) the deepest point <br />being about midway of the length. <br />From 1932 the drilling of J'UI1\P wells increased so rapi~ that the <br />area vas about covered 1n 1937. The district obtained its first vater in <br />1912 upon the completion of the HenrylJrn canals and it is believed the water <br />table rose 18 teet between then and the advent of liell drilJ.j,ng in 1932. <br />IlIIlSIIII1ch as the li"ater table rosa from 10 to 18 feet af'ter the com- <br />pletion of the Denver-Hadson canal system, the status ot the entire HenrylJrn <br />District mst be considered critical whenever a prolonged drouth deprives <br />the canal tran a tair supply ot water. Thus the ecoDOlllY ot the district 18 <br />largel;y dependent on a water supply from the South Platte River having a pri- <br />ority as late as 1907. <br />For the protection of the ditches along the South Platte River, <br />some of which ha'lll priorities dating back 1;0 1860, and which have incurred <br />