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the owner of any ditch drawing water from the natural streams furnishing water to his district shall be permitting any of the waters flowing in such ditch to go to waste, or to be wastefully, extrava- gantly or wrongfully used by its water consumers, or 0 put to any other use than that to which it is entitled 0 to be used in the order of priority, at such times as N the same is being needed by other appropriators, it 0 shall be the duty of such water commissioner to CJ1 immediately shut off the supply of water in such ditch 0 to such an extent as in his judgment was wasted, or extravagantly, wastefully or wrongfully used. 148-16-1. PENALTY FOR CUTTING OR BREAKING GATE, BANK, FlUME. Any person who shall know- ingly and willfully cut, dig, breakdawn, or open any gate, bank. embankment, or side of any ditch, canal, flume, feeder, or reservoir, or who shall knowingly and willfully break, cut, check, or otherwise interfere with the flow of water in any drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, or any manhole, or other opening in any box drain or tile drain, in which such person may be a joint owner, or which may be the property of another, or in the lawful possession of another and used for the purpose of drainage, irrigation, manu- facturing, mining, or domestic purposes, with intent maliciously to injure any person, association, or cor- poration, or for his own gain, unlawfully, with intent of stealing, taking or causing to run or pour out of or into such ditch, canal, reservoir, feeder, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, any water for his own profit. benefit, or advantage, or with intent to check or change the flow in any such ditch, conal, feeder, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, to the injury of any other pers- on, association or corporation, lawfully in the use for his own profit, benefit, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, to the injury of any other person, association or corporation, lawfully in the use of such water or of such ditch, canal, reservoir, feed- er, flume, drainage ditch, box drain, or tile drain, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the county jail not ex- ceeding nine1y days. 148.16-3. PENALTY FOR INTERFERING WITH AD- JUSTED HEADGATES. (1) Every person who shall will- fully and without authority open, c1os~, change or interfere with any headgate of any ditch, or any water box or measuring device of any ditch for the receiving or delivery of water, after the headgate of the ditch has been adjusted by and is in the control of the water commissioner, or after such water box or measuring device has been adopted by the ditch offi- cer in charge, shall be deemed guilty of a misde. meanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not more than three hundred dollars, or im- ..,.....,.. -: ;?::_.f.~ ~~';~',;,-,:,.":,,.~.:-;" ..; :.<.~:~;~' ;;~: :'C;', .... '.. ..'.' "':"':., ..:'" , .' :,:",..;::~.,::;>:. ' .0 ':-.: ,'. .'~ . "'. .~ ',. .,' " ,~ . . : ;~ .' ,- r . .',-,. . '..', .~.' .. ~'''..-..,.;. '. ;..... ;.' ~., '.-, " :,.<<-..' . :.' .... prisoned in the county jail not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. (2) Any person who shall be found using water taken through any such headgate, water box or measuring device so unlawfully interfered with, shall prima facia be deemed guilty of a violation of this section. GROUND WATER ACTIVITY "The irrigation economy of the Arkansas Valley was originally developed with surface water, but storage facilities are small and stream flow is irregu- lor. The amount of surface water available depends primarily on snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains, as the mean annual precipitation east of Pueblo is only about 12 inches. Irrigation water, therefore, is more plentiful from spring until early summer. The surface. water supply in middle and late summer, when crops ore maturing and consumptive use is greatest, is often inadequate or lacking. The use of the ground- water reservoir alleviates this inadequacy, and many large capacity wells have been installed in the Ark- onsas Valley to supplement the surface.water supply. About 1,500 large-capacity irrigotion wells were pumped in the Arkansas Valley in 1964. Most af the wells have been drilled since World War II, and their number has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Withdrawal of ground water increased from 90,000 acre-feet in 1954 to 230,000 acre-feet in 1964". "Well data were collected to define the physical character of the acquifer. Where there were no wells or where data were lacking, test holes were augered. Observation wells were installed where additional water-table control was needed. Water.table, bed- rock-contour, saturated-thickness, and depth-to.water maps were constructed from field data. In addition, pumping tests were made to determine transmissi- bility and specific yield". ESTIMATED PUMPAGE OF GROUNDWATER IN ARKANSAS VALLEY (Pueblo to Stateline) FROM 1940 to 1966 IN ACRE FEET PER YEAR 1940_____ 2,300 1949_____ 23,000 1958____79,000 194 L__ 5,000 1950_____31,000 1959____154,000 1942..___ 6,000 1951.___ 31,000 1960____146,000 1943_____7,000 1952..____46,000 196L,_121,OOO 1944_____ 8,500 1953..____ 58,000 1962..__132,000 1945_____ 9,200 1954 _____ 94,000 1963___215,000 1946___15,000 1955____.. 98,000 1964____227,000 1947____15,000 1956____152,000 1965____113,000 1948____15,000 1957______84,000 1966____115,000 The above information supplied by the United States Geological Survey. '::.:.:,;,:, .....~.:.....~:...,::;-.::::- . .~:.. "'.;' ~....:-. .~.:' ;:': :.:. (, '. .'., , . ..-.,. '::,... ,.J. '.:. '., '., o' .', _,;.\)r:.>....~ .' __,.~~:~ (:. '.~; 'i:' ~":."" :';' .".' -- ~~;,. ~~~;t "';;'f#!"'{: ~.;~t~" ,,;<:,c"i,.-,,< : ~~i:~;~:;i~1 ,l_',,:~~',;;',:'~~ :'.'o~. ' . ',' ...." :-." '"; ~ '.. .._-:.. .,~ '\.:....~V' ........ .', ~ .' 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