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<br />c:: <br />~ <br />00 <br />,oJ <br /> <br />from 300 acres of land lying along the creek immediately above. <br /> <br />Although built to carry 50 second-feet of water, it is now adequate <br /> <br />for only about 30 second-feet. <br /> <br />The Divide Creek Highline headgate is the upfer one for the <br /> <br />project, three niles above the Porter headgate. Below this ditch <br /> <br />and above the Porter ditch 4,200 acres are irrigable. No return <br /> <br />flow is developed above this ritch, but during the flood some water <br /> <br />enters fram .~kali Gulch about 6 miles below the headgate, which <br /> <br />is however nominal in amount and stops even before the flood in <br /> <br />West Divide Creek is over. Return flow fran 3,400 acres under this <br /> <br />ditch gathers in Dry Hollow fram which it is divertable to land under <br /> <br />the ditches below. The carrying capacity of the ditch is reported as <br /> <br />83 second-feet. The maxinum recorded rate of diversion is 75 second- <br /> <br />feet. <br /> <br />Present Diversions <br /> <br />Irrigation on the project is typical for tributary streams <br /> <br /> <br />in Western Colorado. Alfalfa covers 65~ of the project, and is <br /> <br /> <br />501, of the crop acreage an all Bureau of Reclamation projects. With <br /> <br />a better distributed water supply there will be an increase in the <br /> <br />acreage raising cash crops, but the area and proportion of hay land <br /> <br />will not greatly decrease because it is the basis of range operations. <br /> <br />There is so little new land to be developed within the project area <br /> <br />that alfalfa will always be much the largest crop, from an acreage <br /> <br />point of view. <br /> <br />26 <br />