Ground Waters And Irrigation Enterprises In The Foothill Belt Southern California Classic Reprint

Author : Harry F. Blaney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666337696
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Cost of Water to Irrigators in California (Classic Reprint) written by Harry F. Blaney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cost of Water to Irrigators in California This report represents the results of a field study of the cost of water to irrigators under various types of irrigation enterprises in California, which was supported cooperatively by the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public Works of California, and the University of California Agricultural Experi ment Station. Water yearly is becoming of higher value and more difficult to obtain, in consideration of which bankers, investors, govern ment officials, engineers, and farmers may well ask what expenditure can be justified to develop a water supply on land suitable for growing high grade crops, and what water charge can such land pay. Farmers and prospective farmers are in need of such cost data as will enable them to choose creps that may be grown profitably under existing water charges. In California the following types of enterprises may furnish irrigation water: public utilities, contract companies, irrigation districts, mutual water companies, individuals, partnerships, associations, private com panics, United States Bureau of Reclamation, United. States Indian Service, state land settlements, water works districts, municipal improve ment districts, and reclamation districts. However, for the purpose of this investigation, most of the data collected may be placed under one of Jour classifications: public utilities, irrigation districts, mutual water companies, or private pumping plants. For a report of this character to be useful in published form, it must give information on the type of irrigation system, locality, age, source of water supply, duty of water, acreage irrigated, kind of creps, capital invested, and water charges, in addition to annual cost of water to the irrigator. Such data were obtained for this report by visiting the princi pal irrigation enterprises oi the state. The data on private pumping plants were obtained by making field tests in each case. Figures on duty of water given in the report are of varying degrees of accuracy. Some. Are results of careful measurements or metering. At. The other extreme are merely the best estimates of the system engineer or superintendent, based on occasional or periodical gaging and close familiarity with the use of water under the system. Great care was taken, however, to have the figures represent, if not exactly, at least approximately, the true use of water, and none have been included that were not considered by the system engineer or superintendent to conform to this standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.