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<br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />.; <br /> <br />WATER REQ.U!REMENTS <br /> <br />District I..'lTIds <br /> <br />The Mancos Public Inrisation District L~nds were clas- <br /> <br />sified in the investigations being conducted pursuant to Section <br /> <br />15, of the Boulder Canyon Project Act as follows: <br /> <br />Cultivnted Land.............. <br />Pasture (Irrig3tedl.......... <br />Meadow (Irrigated)........... <br />Arable LBnd, ncn-irrigeted... <br /> <br />5,550 "cres <br />1,474 <br />332 <br />1,889 <br />9,195 <br />8,805 <br />18,000 <br /> <br />lJon-irri1;:1ble.......... ...... <br />Totr:.l District area.......... <br /> <br />The District area of 7,000 acres wlich would participate <br /> <br />in storage dcvelo~"ent would probably include subst3ntially.all <br /> <br />of the 5,550 3cres of cultiv"ted l"nd and P1CiSt of tho 332 9-cros of <br /> <br />irrigated r;18adow, with a totel frm these c13sSGS of 5,600 acres. <br /> <br />The renaining 1,400 acres would be r.ral'm frar.l the :-.lest of the <br /> <br />irrigated p~sture lsnds 3nd the arnble non-irrig3tod lands, a <br /> <br />considerable part of which have in ti~s pqst teen irrigated. It <br /> <br />is anticipated that l'lnds to the oxtent of 1,000 acres would fail <br /> <br />to participate in storage develop~ent although continuing in ir- <br /> <br />.ricaticn with their present w~ter rights and supplies. Sone of <br /> <br />these lands would rec0ive adequate water supplies by sub-irrigation, <br /> <br />others of poor quqlity w~uld not justify the invest~2nt in storage. <br /> <br />Sone ol'mers ~~th the oldest water rights would not require or would <br /> <br />8t lenst not prcviJe thG~selves with supplenental water. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />~ <br />'l.-~ <br />