The Cross Section, Volume 6, Number 1, June 1959 Page: 2
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Page 2 THE CROSS SECTION June 1959
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A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE HIGH " ""`'-
PLAINS UNDERGROUND WATER CON-
SERVATION DiSTRICT NO. 1 f xr' -
Published monthly by the High Plains Under-
ground Water Conservation District No. 1
1628-B 15th Street, Lubbock, Texas. IANEAL ArtSnct
Telephone P02-8088
Second-Class postage paid at Lubbock, Texas
ALLAN WHITE tt IP sairn 4C
Editor,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Precinct 1 .:
Elmer Blankenship, Pres. Route 2,
Wilwn, Texas
Precinct 2 "te tc
Roy B. McQuatters, Sr. Vice-Pres.- ____ Box 295, - -
Littlefield, Texas
Precinct 3 a
John Gammon ____-___ Rt. 1, Friona, Texas
Precinct 4 -J. R. Belt, Jr., Sec.-Treas.
Lockney, Texas
DISTRICT OFFICES
Lubbock
Tom McFarland --------___--- General Manager
W. L. Broadhurst _----_--- Chief Hydrologist
Allan White ------ Publicity-Public Relations
Y. F. Snodgrass ----- Field Representative
Mrs. M. McVay _.----- Secretary-Bookkeeper
Mrs. Jean Lancaster __ Secretary
Peggy Burkett__ Secretary
Hereford
Wayne Wyatt Field Representative
COUNTY COMMITTEEMEN
Armstrong County
Robert Adams Wayside, Texas
Jack McGehee --__._---- Wayside, Texas
Cordell Mahler -___-____.__-Wayside, Texas
Willie Modisette _____ Wayside, Texas
John Patterson -__ _- Rt. 1, Happy, TexasHockley County
Z. O. Lincoln, 913 Houston, Levelland
Joe W. Cook, Jr -__- Rt. 1, Ropesville, Texas
Earl G. Miller ___.- Rt. 5, Levelland, Texas
Madison Newton . Anton, Texas
Cecil Pace _ Levelland, Texas
Henry Schmidley ____-- Rt. 2, Levelland, Texas
Committeemen meet first and third Fridays of
each month at 1:30 p. m., 913 Houston, Level-
land, Texas.
Lamb County
Miss Nancy Cotham, Frank Cummings Agency
600 E. 4th Street, Littlefield
J. B. Davis Rt. 1, Amherst, Texas
Henry Gilbert Sudan, Texas
Price Hamilton ----------Earth, Texas
Albert Lockwood __ St. Rt. 2, Littlefield, Texas
Elmer McGill __ _ --___ Olton, Texas
Lubbock County
District Office, 1628-B 15th
Lubbock, Texas
W. W. Allen Rt. 4, Lubbock, Texas
Bill Alspaugh Box 555, Slaton, Texas
Vernice Ford -_ 3013-20th St., Lubbock, Texas
Jack Noblett ___ Rt. 1, Shallowater, Texas
Earl Weaver Idalou, Texas
Committeemen meet first and third Mondays of
each month at 2:30 p. m., 1628-B 15th Street,
Lubbock, Texas.EDITOR'S NOTE-The following letter
was written by Melvin F. Katzer, research
engineer with The Dow Chemical Com-
pany of Pittsburgh, California, to W. L.
BroadhUrst, Chief Hydrologist for the
High Plains Water Dstrict.
Mr. Katzer and William Blackney, also
with The Dow Chemical Company, work-
ed in cooperation with the Water District
for several days in April 1959 in Castro
County attempting to develop a satis-
factory method for distributing and mix-
ing a flocculating chemical, called Sepa-
ran AP-30, with playa lake water. The
chemical, when mixed properly with the
usually dirty water found in the playa
lakes, causes the suspended clay and silt
particles to adhere to each other and the
large masses drop to the lake bed.
Relatively free from silt and clay parti-
cles the lake water is more suitable for
draining into the underground formation
through recharge wells.
The letter outlines procedures follow-
ed in preliminary experiments and the
results obtained.
The Water District has concentrated re-
cently on application of the chemical by
airplane.
* * * * *
Mr. W. L. Broadhurst
High Plains Underground Water
District
1628 15th Street
Lubbock, Texas
Dear Bill:
Although I know you are familiar
with what was done, the following des-
cription is sufficiently detailed so that
anyone reading this should be able to
understand what we did and why.
As you remember, we hired the cropmost of the lakes were dry. No rain
had fallen for six months. Two lakes
were located near Hart, Texas. Permis-
sion was obtained to treat them even
though the water was exceptionally
clean. The weather had been extreme-
ly hot and there had been no wind for
two days. The lakes were as smooth
as glass. This unusual condition had
permitted the silt to settle out and the
lakes were clearer than ever before.
Samples were taken of both lakes and
Table I shows they had 68 and 76 ppm
-( Parts per million) suspended sol-
ids near the shore.
The crop duster did not have equip-
ment for spreading a dry powder.
Therefore, paper bags were obtained
from the grocery store and one pound
of regular Separan AP30 was placed
in each. Jarrott Lake was estimated to
be four to five acres in area and one
to three feet deep and to have a sup-
ply of seven acre feet of water. Seven
bags were prepared and one was
dumped onto Jarrott Lake each time
the plane flew over it. Some of the
chemical was lost by being dumped
over dry ground before the proper
timing was developed. In view of
these rough estimates and technique
it can only be said that the treatment
level was between 0.5 and 1.5 pounds
per acre foot of water. Photograph
of this dusting operation is shown in
Figure 1.
The second lake was about five
miles away on the Cooper farm. It
was larger, but again was very quiet
and unusually clean. It was 20-30 acres
in area and three to four feet deep.
Silt stirred up from the bottom wasIt ~ J
I
Lynn County
District Office, 1628-B 15th(
FIGURE 1-Chemical in powdered form is applied to Jarrott Lake surface by
hand from low flying airplane.
dusting service in Dimmitt, Texas to easily flocculated with 0.5 ppm Sepa-
fly over the area and locate three ran AP30. A photograph of Cooper
lakes which appeared dirty and which Lake is shown in Figure 2.
were close enough to each other to The following afternoon the wind
permit easy sampling. One was to be was very strong and a storm was start-
treated with regular Separan AP30, ing. Each lake was again sampled and
one with ground Separan AP30 and Cooper Lake was badly riled and tur-
one was to be sampled as a control. bid. Jarrott Lake, however, was almost
No such triplet was found because as clear as before treatment. The wa-
- ,DRIfl REVERL fLOCULRTflTlG
T. L. Sparkman, Jr.-_ Route 1, Hereford, Texas
Precinct 5Bailey County
Juanita Flaniken, Bailey County
Farm Bureau Office, Muleshoe
Robert Blackwood Rt. 1, Muleshoe, Texas
Doyle Davis --..__-____ Maple, Texas
R. E. Ethridge U__ __ Rt. 5, Muleshoe, Texas
Ross Goodwin _____ Rt. 2, Muleshoe, Texas
Leldon Phillips Rt. 2, Muleshoe, Texas
Committeemen meet fourth Friday of each month
at 2:30 p. m., Farm Bureau Office, Muleshoe,
Texas.
Castro County
Eugene Ivey, Dimmitt
Fred Annen Dimmitt, Texas
George Bradford Dlzmitt, Texas
Ernest Jones __----- ._.____Dimmitt, Texas
Tom Lewis Ut. 4, Dimmitt, Texas
Rodney Smith Hart, Texas
Cochran County
W. M. Butler, Jr., Western Abstract
Co.. Morton
Earl Crum _ Rt. 2, Morton, Texas
Roy D. Greer St. Rt. 2, Morton, Texas
Pat Hatcher Morton, Texas
Lloyd Miller --- -. Box 246, Morton, Texas
L. L. Taylor ________ Rt. 1, Morton, Texas
Deaf Smith County
Mrs. Pauline Lovan, Deaf Smith County
Farm Bureau Office, Hereford
Raymond Higginbotham -- Rt. 1, Hereford, Texas
Jack Higgins ----------- Rt. 4, Hereford, Texas
Earl Holt ---------_ Rt. 3, Hereford, Texat
Clinton Jackson --------___ Rt. 5, Hereford, Texas
Austin C. Rose, Jr., 108 Beach St., Hereford, Tex.
Committeemen meet the first Monday of each
month in the Farm Bureau Office, Hereford,
Texas at 7:30 p. m.
Floyd County
Mrs. Ida Puckett, 319 South Main
Floydada ,
G. L. Fawver R t. 5, Floydada, Texas
Robert Kelison Ut. 2, Lockney, Texs
Chester W. Mitchell Lockney, Texas
Don Probasco _ Silverton St. Ut, Floydada, Tex.
Ernest Lee Thoman __ Rt. 1, Floydada, TexasLubbock, Texas
Weldon Bailey Rt. 1, Wilson, Texas
Earl Cummings Wilson, Texas
Robbie Gill ------------- Rt. 1, Wilson, Texas
Frank P. Lisemby, Jr. -___ Rt. 1, Wilson, Texas
Erwin Sander --_ Wilson, Texas
Committeemen meet first and third Tuesdays of
each month at 10 a.m., 1628-B 15th Street, Lub-
bock, Texas.
Parmer County
Aubrey Brock, Bovina
D. B. Ivey-- .- .__ Rt. 1, Friona, Texas
Lee Jones R.- U. F. D., Farwell, Texas
Dick Rockey _____.--- R.F.D., Friona, Texas
Carl Schlenker Rt. 2, Friona, Texas
A. B. Wilkinson Bovina, Texas
Potter County
T. G. Baldwin _ Bushland, Texas
James S. Line Bushland, Texas
E. L. Milhoan ______ - - Bushland, Texas
Eldon Plunk -.---- Rt. 1, Amarillo, Texas
R. C, Sampson, Jr ___ Bushland, Texas
Randall County
Mrs. Eutha Hamblen, Farm Bureau, Canyon
Leo Artho ----U--- Rt. 1, Canyon, Texas
James B. Dietz --- -z Rt. 2, Happy, Texas
A. C. Evers Rt. 4, Box 391, Amarillo, Texas
Jackie Meeks _ _ Rt. 2, Happy, Texas
W. A. (BUD Patke, Rt. 4, Box 400, Amarillo, Tex.
Committeemen meet first Monday night each
month at 7:30 p. m., 1710 5th Avenue, Canyon,
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FIGURE 2-Samples were periodically taken from untreated Cooper Lake to
use as comparison with nearby Jarrott Lake.Page 2
June 1959
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