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<br />. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />The follewing table shews costs for stored water in terms <br /> <br />uf the units in common use: <br /> <br />Table 10 <br /> <br />Net Capacity - 5,000 Acre-Feet <br /> <br />Period <br />1921-1937 <br /> <br />Weber <br />Reservoir <br /> <br />Jackson Gulch <br />Reservoir <br /> <br />Average annual delivery <br />Additional return flow available <br />for project 251. of storage <br />Average increase in divertible water <br /> <br />4,091 A.F.: <br /> <br />4,532 A.F. <br /> <br />1,133 <br />5,665 <br /> <br />II <br />" <br /> <br />1,023 " <br />5,114 " <br /> <br />Cost per year <br />Cost per acre-feat <br />Cost per day-second-foot <br />Cost per miners' inch <br /> <br />$25,500 <br />$4.98 <br />$9.90 <br />~0.26 <br /> <br />$25,750 <br />ji4.55 <br />;/9.02 <br />$0.23 <br /> <br />Poasibility of Repayment <br /> <br />With due allcwance for return flow reused, the 5,000 <br /> <br />acre-foot reserveirs will result in an average increase in diver- <br /> <br />sions of 9 inches of water in depth over an area of 7,000 acres and <br /> <br />a delivery to the farms of about 7 inches of water in depth. <br /> <br />The efficient use ef stored ~~ter should go far to assure <br /> <br />maturing crops of the products new grown cn the prcject, with a <br /> <br />material increase in crop values. For example, the stored water <br /> <br />would be more than ample for one heavy irrigation of the second <br /> <br />cutting of alfalfa, and would produce an additional quantity of hay <br /> <br />that could not be purchased for the cost of the supplemental water <br /> <br />used. <br /> <br />More valuable USe of the stored water will be found in <br /> <br />growing a considerable acreage of more profitable cash crops, such <br /> <br />40 <br /> <br />2301 <br />