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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />0663 <br /> <br />47. Flood damage estimate. ~ Flood damages have been classified as <br />tangible and intangible. Tangi1;>le damages are tl?:ose which can be e:x;- <br />- <br /> <br />pressed in monetary terms and have been compiled as direct and indirect <br /> <br />damages. Intangible damages are those which are real but not susceptible <br /> <br />of evaluit:J.oh,'"rhe .:l!!l.1gible damageS, as dis(!1J.i!lsed iri this rep6i't ate <br /> <br />,.--,;,.,.", -~": <br /> <br />:'",;-,- <br /> <br />those which would result from floods occurring under the present state <br />of economic development, and were computed USing projected prices adopted <br />for use ~ the Federai Inter-Agency River Basin Committee on September 27, <br /> <br />1951. <br /> <br />. . <br />48. Metl:laQ of estimating direct crop cl$Jnages. - Direct Crbp losses <br />are taken as the difference between the net crop income that wou1d ha~e <br />been realized had there been no floodingi. and the net incdme that actti~ <br />ally was realized in the year that flooding occU1'1-ed. In:nistiln6~s of <br />cbmplete crop iOBS this differerice :Lsequal tb the normal gtoss value of <br />the crop less any expenses nolo j .l"ll~red; or nor~al net va1ue of thE\' t':r6p" <br /> <br />plus all experises incurred to tll", time of flooding. To cpnlpute these <br /> <br />damages, crop. damage curve.s were constructed to show the 1'6s5 from <br /> <br />floods occurririg at any time of the yeat.- These crop damage curVes <br />furthE\r reflect losses from plairting de'layed by floods, or replanting to <br />the same or other crops wheri t,he original planting was destroyed by <br /> <br />floods. The crop loss curves for alfalfa stands killed by inundation <br /> <br />were constX'ucted on a five..year basis, arid the loss was taken i;.s the <br /> <br />average of the five years. The damag3 ~urveys revealed that floods cauSe <br /> <br />little or no damage to the grazing lands in the flOod plains) in fact the <br /> <br />flood irrigation of grazing lands often has a beneficial. effect which <br /> <br />tends to offset damat,es ~tnbmr8o.. Accordingly, nO flood dalT1ageMs l5Eieti <br /> <br />estimated for land~ p;der this classification. <br /> <br />49. Data C6ncernJng damage to crops resulting ft6m disruptiort of <br /> <br />irrigation service wete obtained fron farm operators, ditbh comp~ <br /> <br />18 <br /> <br /> <br />. <br />