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Canal Seepage Loss Investigations In The Lewiston Area, Utah, Robert V. Thurmond
Canal Seepage Loss Investigations In The Lewiston Area, Utah, Robert V. Thurmond
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
With population, industry, and irrigation ever increasing in the arid west, there arises new and greater demands for water. Much of the water now urgently needed is lost as seepage from the many miles of canals in the western states.
Rohwer and Stout (18) have estimated that in the western states from one-third to one-half of the water diverted for irrigation is lost before it reaches the farmers' fields. Of these losses, seepage probably accounts for the greatest loss. It is reported by the Bureau of Reclamation (14) that, of the 14,600,000 acre feet of water diverted on 36 projects …