A single series of water flow measurements were conducted in the Arkansas River Basin. Measurement were made of water flow from the confluence of Lake Creek and the Arkansas River to the headgate of the Bessemer Canal. Investigation of seepage and conveyance losses tended to confirm previous estimates of a 12% conveyance charge from the Twin Lakes.

Aluminum irrigation pipes are commonly used in agriculture in the arid West. The lightweight pipes are thirty to forty feet in length and are designed to be connected, moved, and reconnected by hand in irrigated areas during growing seasons. High voltage lines (7200 or 7620 volts) supply power to the irrigation pumps, and are typically suspended twenty to thirty feet above ground. Electrocutions usually occur around the periphery of irrigated fields...

The purpose of this task is to identify a consumptive use methodology suitable for estimates of crop evapotranspiration in southwest Colorado. It includes a review and discussion of the more common predictive equations and sample calculations using measured and derived climatic data at a weather station in the project area. Mean data are used for all calculations except precipitation in which a 60 percent recurrence interval is used in effective...

"Libby is a bagger at the supermarket in town. She is also a new mother - not of her own child, but of her little sister's. Tess did not want the baby, but Libby convinced her not to have an abortion by promising to raise it - a promise Tess thought was crazy and Libby believed she would not have to keep. Now Tess has left for Durango and Libby pays rent to share a house with her mother on land neither of them own. She drives into town a few days...