Why we need those snowdrifts... You notice I did not pose that as a question...
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This is photo from straight west of the ranch headquarters. I took it from the top of the windcharger tower looking west in about 1975. We use to run a half mile of side roll irrigation on the nearly 80 acres of alfalfa. We also had 30-40 acres of ground that we flooded. However, we finally sold the irrigation system. Too many years where our big dam (Reinhold Lake) would not receive enough runoff to enable us to irrigate. Drought is a killer. We need our watersheds to have plenty of snow in the draws and on the sidehills to run water.
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FYI... The watershed (acres of drainage) for our reservoir is around 2500 acres. Also of interest... the irrigation system pictured was half mile long and put out a 1000 gallons per minute. We aimed at about 3 to 4 inches in a twelve hour period