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Volume 16-No. 6
"THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WATER"
AQUIFER MODELING
RESEARCH MEETING
by A. W. SECHRIST
The seventh regularly scheduled
quarterly meeting of the participants
in the Tech-District aquifer-modeling
research project was held in the Dis-
trict's Lubbock office on June 3, 1970.
This was the last planning and work
review meeting scheduled for this two
year research project.
The object of this joint research
project is to develop a mathematical
management model of the Ogallala
aquifer. It is anticipated that this
model will be able to predict the be-
havior of the aquifer to both present
and future rates of withdrawal of
water; also to predict the aquifer be-
havior to any future recharge scheme.
The model when completed should
be quite helpful to the District as well
as to other agencies and individuals;
especially those agencies who are de-
veloping plans for surface water im-
portation to this area.
Dr. Dan Wells, Director of the Wa-
ter Resources Center, Texas Tech
University and Frank Rayner, Mana-
ger, High Plains Underground Water
Conservation District No. 1, are co-
directors of this research project.
Participating in this last planning
meeting were Wells and Rayner, also
Albert W. Sechrist, Water District En-
gineer; Bill Claborn and Floyd Urban,
Assistant Professors of Civil Engineer-
ing at Tech; Dr. David K. Todd, Pro-
fessor of Civil Engineering, University
of California at Berkeley; Charles F.
Meyer, Project Manager for Water Re-
sources Research, General Electric
TEMPO, Santa Barbara, California;
and Dr. David Kleinecke, of General
Electric TEMPO. General Electric
TEMPO and their consultant, Dr.THE NITRATE DILEMMA
In most of the High Plains area, the
nitrate problem appears to be only the
problem of assuming that there is a
nitrate problem. There is no evidence
that nitrate, nitrite or any other ele-
ment of the nitrogen cycle, are preva-
lent polluters of the groundwater, sur-
face water or any other regimen of this
area's environment. There is present-
ly insufficient evidence to exonerate
the nitrogen compounds of all threat
to the quality of the area's ground-
water -by the same token, there are
also insufficient facts upon which to
base the prevalent assumption that
such compounds are a major polluter
of our environment.
Water Quality Monitoring
The District, in cooperation with
the Texas Water Development Board,
has established a continuing program
for monitoring the quality of the water
in this area's aquifer system, the Ogal-
lala aquifer.
The primary purposes of this pro-
gram are to:
1) Appraise the landowner of the
quality of the groundwater beneath his
property and any changes in the quali-
ty of same. These data are impor-
tant to soil analysis.
2) Establish a general quality of
water base for the entire region. This
type of information is very important
to any prospective industry or other
organization interested in locating in
this area. These data will also be
most important to the water importa-
tion studies and planning now in pro-
gress.
3) Establish a historical base of
quality of water information. This type
of data are necessary in order to ap-A
praise any change in the quality of the
groundwater (contamination or pollu-
tion of same), and to protect the land--
owner's rights to compensation for any
damage to the quality of his ground-
water. These data are necessary to
any appraisal of the causes for any
change in the quality of the ground-
water, and for appraising any remedial
-continued on page 3
Taliwater Stories
Mr. Hoyt West, Managing Editor of
the magazine, "Irrigation Age", has
noted that two articles concerning tail-
water return systems, in the March
and April issues, have received the
largest reader response of any stories
yet carried by this magazine.
These articles, "Save That Water",
(March), and "Returned Profits",
(April) were compiled by Miss Patricia
Patterson, a former staff writer for
"Irrigation Age". The survey of read-
er response, conducted by "Irrigation
Age", indicated a 66 percent response
for the March story, and a 58 percent
response for the April article.
Both of these well-illustrated ar-
ticles attest to, and document the eco-
nomic benefits of tailwater return sys-
tems. The unusual readers interest is
an indication of the favorable conser-
vation attitude of the irrigators in this
area.
"Irrigation Age" was established by
Mr. Palmer Norton, Hereford farmer
and businessman. This excellent pub-
lication, devoted to practical irrigation,
was first published in August 1966.
The original circulation of about 15,-
000 has now grown to a circulation of
100,000.' ~
Farmer And Consumer
Relations Should Be Strong
by W. E. BLACK*
The consumer's best friend is the
farmer. He has supplied them with
an abundance of high quality food and
in great variety and at bargain prices.
Consumers pay less for food because
their farmer friends are producing 20
percent more on 6 percent fewer acres
than they did in the period from 1957-
59. Each of the nation's farm work-
ers is now supplying the food and
fiber for 45 persons compared with
23 in 1957-59, and his output per
man-hour has increased 83 percent
over the past decade. During the last
decade, food prices rose less than
three-fourths as much as other con-
sumer goods due primarily to farmer
efficiency.
Consumer income increases exceed-
ed food expenditure rises, leaving fam-
ilies extra money to buy other things.
The average family in 1969 spent less
than $1I out of each $6 to feed the
family.
It is true that expenditures for food
per person in the U.S. have increased
from $306 in 1947-49 to $511 per
person in 1969, but disposable in-
comes have increased even faster -
from $1,244 per person in 1947-49
to $3,098 in 1969. The percent of
income spent for food by the average
American thus has dropped from 24.6
percent in 1947-49 to only 16.5 per-
cent in 1969. No other country ap-
proaches this record. Rising incomes
enabled consumers to buy more food
services even though services increased
the food bill.
Prices for food away from home
have increased much more than food
served at home. In the last decade
prices of restaurant meals climbed 50
percent.June, 1970
Todd, are consultants to the Tech-
District research project.
The work accomplishment of the
past quarter and of the past seven
quarters in general was discussed at
length and in particular the results of
the work as presented in the paper
"Numerical Model of the Ogallala as
a Management Tool", which was pre-
sented at the Ogallala Symposium, was
reviewed. This paper is a general pro-
gress report to date of the work on the
research project and included the re-
sults of the output from a run of the
model. Considerable discussion took
place concerning the output of the
model and of the analysis that can be
made from the output. This paper
also presented the results of a sample
recharge problem run on the model.-continued on page 2
7ms
Research Planning Group Meeting--left to right: Kleinecke, Urban, Meyer, Sechrist,
Rayner, Claborn, not shown in picture are Wells and Todd.Rising incomes also let us indulge
our tastes for preferred foods, and our
good friend, the farmer, has shifted
his production patterns to keep up
with them. We are greater consumers
of poultry, beef, vegetable oils, pro-
cessed vegetables and fruits, and sugar
than 10 years ago.
Less labor is needed to pay for our
food today than even a few years ago.
In fact, Americans work less time to
purchase most food items than people
in any other country in the world. We
are particularly favored on high-quali-
ty food items such as meat, poultry,
and dairy products.
Farmers received an average of 41
cents out of each $1 spent for U. S.
farm produced food in 1969. This
was about 2 cents more than in 1957-
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