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<br />. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Non-District Lands <br /> <br />A total of 650 acres now irrigated from Middle Mancos <br /> <br />River, above the District is not to receive stored water although <br /> <br />under the Weber Reservoir site. An area of 450 3cres principally <br /> <br />en the mesa west of West M~ncos River, qnd partly on East Mancos <br /> <br />River, cannot be served fron the Weber sito. On Chicken and Mud <br /> <br />Creeks to the north of the District, 2,000 acres is supplied fron <br /> <br />those creeks, augr,18nted by Wc\ter frcn 11est Mancos River diverted <br /> <br />far upstrean. <br /> <br />To the west of the District in the Mud Creek drainage <br /> <br />area, BOBe 3,000 acres of arable Inn~s now h3ve no water. These <br /> <br />lands c.an be irrig:cted with extensions of I'Ilancos River canals. <br /> <br />They can be substituted if ne8ded, for District lGnds in use of <br /> <br />stored water. <br /> <br />IrriiSation Demand <br /> <br />From a consideration of crop and cl~3tic conditions, the <br /> <br />annual diversion requirer.;ent is estifinted 2t 2.93 acre-feet per <br /> <br />acre (PaEe 34, original report). Return flew in the irrigation <br /> <br />season is esticated at 1.05 acre-feet per ',cro, except th.<\t 2,000 <br /> <br />acres of project lands is so situated in Wober Canyon ~nd lower <br /> <br />Mancos River vCllley tho.t return flow from thorn would not be avail- <br /> <br />~ble for use on the rroject,. <br /> <br />Tanle 1 rresents the estimnted water require;;lent for the <br /> <br />irrigation of 8,000 acres of Which 7,000 ncres would receive stored <br /> <br />n33Q <br />I- <br /> <br />5 <br />