Show Huge Sprinkling System Installed At Control Farm Form The first automatic agricultural ling system in the state has just been installed at the Federal Quality Return Flow Study Farm south of the Vernal Municipal Airport THE SYSTEM installed by the E E. E C COlsen C. C Olsen Company of Ogden contains oscillating sprinklers arranged on large aluminum pipe laterals laid on the surface surface sur sur- face of the ground The system is movable movable able and contains eight sprinkling zones that are controlled automatically by electrical electrical elec elect controls The sprinkling system operates from froma a 25 h h. h p p. electrical pump that pumps over one second foot of water from a sump into the sprinkling zone The sprinkling complex will be automatically automatically automatically auto auto- controlled by electrical valves valves valves val val- ves controlling each zone A timing device will determine when where and how long each zone will be watered The automatic controls have not yet been completed and the present sprinkling sprinkling ling is being accomplished manually THE RETURN water flow study is being being be be- ing conducted by the at Logan under a grant given by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration which has given a grant to the project The purpose of the farm Is to control control control con con- the affluent in the soil by the sprinkling sprinkling ling system and a drainage system so that known quantities and qualities of water can be placed on the farm area and followed through the drainage system system tem studying its quality A COMPLETE drainage system was constructed this year with control observation observation ob ob- manholes Instruments will be installed in these manholes to record movement of drainage and samples will willbe willbe willbo be bo taken by a special farm manager Mike research engineer who has been hired full time full time to take the research research research re re- search data from the instruments as aswell aswell aswell well as oversee the sprinkling system The farm has been planted into oats and alfalfa which will be harvested by moving the pipes back and forth The farm is being leased from Harold E E. E Hullinger THE has issued the grant inthe inthe in inthe the interest of a water quality studies in this area because it is part of the Upper Colorado River Storage drainage The data will be usel used to help determine deter mine mine the quality of the water stored b by reclamation projects along the tem |