Richfield Reaper | 1931-05-21 | Page 1 | Engineer Says Primary Water Over Estimated

engineer says primary water over estimated an even greater need of water conservation during the irrigation season seems apparent from an announcement made last week by J R barker local engineer to the effect that ta the p primary w water ater has been overestimated overestimated over estimated estimated and it looks like the richfield irrigation canal will not get more than one and one h half all acre feet of water which means that the amount of water allotted per share will be reduced from eight to six hours with a three second ft stream the estimate on the other canals is holding out quite well according to mr barker the primary water this year is running only sixteen per cent of the decreased amount this however should not be taken to mean sixteen per ent cent c of normal as it is only in extremely wet years that the runoff reaches 50 per cent of the decreased amount