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1953 - Santa Cruz-Monterey Counties Investigation - Bulletin No. 5
1953 - Santa Cruz-Monterey Counties Investigation - Bulletin No. 5
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The area in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties under this investigation has recently experienced a substantial increase in water utilization, in common with many other parts of California. As a result, it is confronted with a need for more complete conservation of its water resources. Diversion of surface water in Santa Cruz County has increased until in dry years insufficient summer How exists in certain streams to meet peak water demands for urban and recreational requirements. Expanding irrigated acreage in Pajaro Valley together with trends toward more intensive agriculture have increased the ground water draft in that valley and have …
1978 - January – Drought 77 Dry Year Program Report
1978 - January – Drought 77 Dry Year Program Report
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The objectives of the Drought 77 Dry Year Program were to identify critical drought impacted areas in Northern and Central California, to provide information to water users in these areas in regard to water conservation, to assure that the limited supply available was used in accordance with lawful rights, and to take enforcement action against violations of permit and license conditions, illegal diversions and waste or unreasonable use of water.
1945 - Irrigation Requirements Of California Crops, Bulletin No. 51
1945 - Irrigation Requirements Of California Crops, Bulletin No. 51
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
This 1945 report addresses the issue of water being the limiting factor in the expansion of irrigated areas. The increasing cost of new projects not only approached the capital values that newly irrigated lands might profitably support but in many cases exceeded them and other benefits were evaluated to justify construction. Conservation of existing water supplies was therefore of the first importance in the economy of the irrigated west. Savings in irrigation seldom exist where water was plentiful but where it was scarce conserving methods were the rule, wasteful practices were avoided, and water was carefully applied. It was axiomatic …