The purpose of the installation is to test and demonstrate surge technology to local farmers. It has been proven elsewhere that the surge irrigation technology enables irrigators to achieve higher irrigation efficiencies, uniform applications, and deep percolation reduction. Reducing deep percolation decreases salt loading of the Colorado River.

Extensive areas of irrigated land in Colorado have become salinized and their associated water supplies have become similarly degraded. The Arkansas River is well known for the degree of its progressive downstream salinization only in relatively recent few years has it been recognized that the Lower South Platte River and associated irrigated lands are becoming increasingly salt affected. Substantial programs have not been implemented to rejuvenate...