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<br />n" r..., '"15 <br />:j"J ."....,' ,J <br /> <br />- B - <br /> <br />The only rema~n~ng alternative is to take water from the uncompahgre <br />River. The ;Iilter Users of the Uncompahgre Project onl,' have four second feet <br />of water out of that river in the first 200 second feet of flow. During the <br />late irrigation season there is usually less than 100 second feet in the Un- <br />co~pahgre. Therefore, relief is not available from that source. <br /> <br />Crops are burning out on the Uncompahgre Project. In a survey in Sep- <br />tember of 1951, the ditch riders found that 8hO acres of land '''ere lost to <br />production this season. Some land was not planted due to the short water sup- <br />ply in the early season, other acreages were abandoned in the middle of the <br />season, and other acreages burned up et the end of the season. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Uncompahgre Pr0ject can satisfy its full decrees of 1300 second <br />feet, or its 1,000 secon.i feet carr,ying capacity, by two possibilities: <br />one, shut down the decrees above the tunnel that are junior to the tunnel. <br />These decrees total 5,97~ second feet. It would be inefficient to shut down <br />these decrees, inasmuch as there would only be saved for use at the Gunnison <br />Tu~nel, water that had been consumptively used in the Gunnison area. This <br />water would not amount to one-third of the decrees, but the results to Gun- <br />nison would be severe. The second means of s'~pplying the Gunnison lI~nnel the <br />amount it Ylill carry or the 1300 second feet of its decree, is to have regu- <br />laced storage on the main stream of the Gunnison above the G~~nison Tunnel. <br />.There are other direct uses of water out of the Gunnison Reservoir. i.e took <br />a 10 year test, one Vlee'!: in eacr. year, in t.he Delta area. There vias a de- <br />ficiency in wetel' available to satisfy the decrees in all but one year of the <br />10 tested. "e tested ,ieeks other than triose tested for the Uncompahgre Project. <br />The deficiency in 1940 exceeded 600 second feet. Four other years averaged <br />roore than 300 second feet. The minimum shortage in the remaining four years <br />rias 100 second feet per year. Eany decrees in the Delta area, the Hartland; <br />Bonafide; Trial; Relief; and others have decrees senior t.o the Gunnison Tunnel. <br />These decrees total 191 cubic second feet. In 1934 and again in 1951 the Dis- <br />trict \lat.er E.ngineer has turned water past the Gunnison Tunnel in order to <br />supply the senior decrees in the Delta area. <br /> <br />~.. <br /> <br />The IJorth Delta Canal next year will appropriate more of its decrees <br />as a result of a loan secured to enlarge the canal and bring nel; land under <br />irrigation. In addition to the existing use, 137 cubic feet approximately <br />will be required Hhen the North Delta Canal. lands are completely developed. <br /> <br />There are 560 acres of land on Goddard j.jesa in Montrose County that <br />can be irrigated directly out of the existing Uncompahgre Project. This land <br />can be irrigated from the iitches of the Uncompahgre Project. liiore water <br />will be required. <br /> <br />~e took it upon oursslves to check the Jex Report. The Jex Rep~rt is <br />a reconnaissance survey, which is assumed to be in sufficient detail to indi- <br />cate the feasibility of a project, and the worth of producing the detailed <br />plans for building it. A registered Civil Engineer was employed to check the <br />Jex Report. Tltis engineer did some actual field work in checking it. His re- <br />port was: that for the purpose of establishing the feasibility of the partici- <br />