Show irrigation COMPANY DOUBLES UP WATER at a special meeting called for the purpose the board of 0 directors of the chalk creek cheek irrigation company decided to place all of the companas comp anys portion ol of the low flow of chalk creek in one stream this action was taken to conserve water the total flow of company owned water is now down to about five second feet at the head and dropping tast fast with it divided into two streams each to flow through miles of ditches the water has been largely wasted tor for the past week or so with the water left in two streams the time was fast approaching pro aching when it would not even reach lower users water in the sink system came to the head last evening while in the old field it was vas halt way through the water was therefore turned to the old field to finish their turn on short schedule arid and then the whole stream will be turned to the sink some of the users due to this changed schedule will have their turns delayed between three and tour four days late water is always so scarce tor for farmers under chalk creek that every means should be employed to preserve it A continuous flow of one second foot in this arid region has been estimated by a competent irrigation engineer is as being worth five thousand dollars it methods of distribution are employed which needlessly waste two second feet of water through seepage evaporation and he adgate leaks we are wasting a ten thousand dollar water right if a permanent policy was adopted of always placing the water in one stream as soon as it is all turned in the cement ditch and users would adopt a policy of concentrating this late water at the head ot of the systems tor for use of row crops an air even greater saving than two second feet would be easily possible in water beneficially applied an average year even this year it the water had been doubled up several weeks ago when it was first all turned through the cement ditch acres and acres of 0 additional spring grain and hay land could have been watered in august and september of an average year the stream would be large enough to start alfalfa or irrigate ground tor for fall grain agricultural resource es cs u under n d e r chalk creek are so limited that it is disheartening but that ba excuse tor for not makia making the roost most of what there is |