Biennial Report Of The State Engineer PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...season and a bumper crop was harvested on both dry and irrigated farms. The benefits of stored water were thoroughly demon tions to be started with the view of locating practical reservoirsites. How far these investigations were carried out, future development will show. An interesting project, one that thoroughly demonstrates the benefits and value of stored water, is the Cloud Peak Reservoir, located at the foot of Cloud Peak in the Big Horn range of mountains, on the South Fork of South Piney Creek. Although built under the handicap of having to transport all material and equipment with pack horses some thirty or thirty-five miles over very steep and rocky trails, it repaid every dollar of its cost in the first four years of its use. An important project now under construction, and by far the largest in this Water Division, is that of the Lake De Smet Reservoir, which is being built by the L. Z. Leiter Estate. This reservoir, when completed, under present plans, will store approximately twenty-five thousand acre feet of water, furnishing not only a supplemental supply for the large tract of land owned by this estate, but will be ample to reclaim thousands of fertile acres additional along the Clear Creek Valley In connection with the regulation of water, valuable aid would be rendered by placing in streams, especially those carrying stored water, a weir, rating flume or gaging station, above all diversions. Any one of these would prove of great value to the Commissioner in the distribution of water and settling of disputes, for by this means he could tell just what rights could be furnished and a dissatisfied user could be shown the exact strength of the stream. In order to show the necessity for such measuring device, we have only to...