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Posted by Allan in NE on April 04, 2005 at 05:50:04 from (148.78.243.24):
Mornin' Guy, I forget that the biggest share of farmers don't do the irrigation thing and aren’t familiar with it's terminology. A lot of the irrigation in this country is set up under Irrigation Districts and for the most part was developed during the later part of the depression by FDR and his "New Deal". During that time, the CCC boys would come in, build irrigation dams, reservoirs, canals, level the farms for flood irrigation (which was all that was available at that time) and install the head gates at each farm. Local boards are elected to run and maintain the overall system and the year's accumulated water at these dams is then divided up among the total irrigated acres under the system. Taxes are then assessed and collected to maintain these districts. Down side is that taxes are based on acreages, not the amount of water available, so water or no water, taxes still need to be paid. Last year, down on the home place, it was so dry that the available water in the dam at the beginning of the irrigation season (usually July 4th to Sept. 1st) was less than 10,000 acre feet. After river release and evaporation loses (64%) were figured in, the total allotment came to .24" of water per acre for the farmers. It is generally agreed that an irrigated crop requires 1 foot of water per producing acre. Read: Old fashioned draught. This is why so many wells were poked down into that aquifer. But, due to this ongoing drought, the water table is falling and even a pivot system requires at least 750 gallons per minute to do a good job of irrigation. Looked at this place two weeks ago, and this is the farm that I said only had an allotment of .64" of water coming down out of the Wyoming system and has no irrigation well. Just not enough water to raise a crop. :>( Allan 
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