Crowley County Combined Library

The purpose of this task report is to present the methodology for determining practicably irrigable acreage (PIA) for the Mancos Watershed. The test for PIA requires that the revenues exceed the cost. The land under consideration when cropped and irrigated must return sufficient net positive income to pay for the costs of providing irrigation water to the farm headgate In order to determine PIA it is necessary to conceptually design an irrigation...