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Volume 18--No. 7 "THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WATER"
July, 1972
SAM ALDRIDGE
I Attorney Endorses Tailwater Pits
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Sam Aldridge, noted Parmer County
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attorney, is a firm believer in water the water."
conservation and endorses tailwater When asked about the problem of
pits as a method of reusing valuable silt build-up, Aldridge said silt is the
groundwater. Believing that water major problem in maintaining a pit,
waste will eventually affect every land but "the savings of irrigating with tail-
owner in the country, Aldridge said in water keep the cost of putting the silt
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Parmer County attorney Sam Aldridge talks about the benefits of reusing irrigation
water with tailwater pits. The Farwell lawyer-landowner maintains four tailwater
pits on three sections of land.TINSLEY REAPPOINTED TWDB CHAIRMAN
Society of Association Executives,
Municipal Finance Forums of Wash-
ington and New York, and the Texas
Water Conservation Association. A
former President of the Capitol Area
of the Boy Scouts of America, Chair-
man Tinsley is a recipient of the Silver
Beaver Award, the highest award giv-
en an adult by the Boy Scouts.
An Honorary Life Member of the
Texas Chapter, Municipal Finance Of-
ficers Association of U. S. and Canada,
Tinsley is a recipient of the Distin-
guished Service Award by the Texas
Association of School Boards. He has
--continued on page 3 . .. TINSLEYI
.Reports Needed from Farmers
back on the land from being a deficit."
Aldridge said that silt in the pit prob-
ably will not dry good in a year, but,
when dry, a bulldozer or carryall will
move it more cheaply than a dragline.
A dragline will remove watered-down
silt, at a cost of $20 an hour, and
moves very slowly.
"I don't know of a good way for a
tailwater pit to catch a good rain
shower because silt fills up the pit,"
says Aldridge. Ford has placed old
tires all along the ditch to catch silt
as the water travels to the pit. When
the silt dries out, a grader is used to
--continued on page 2 . . . ATTORNEY- .
-7`W. E. (Buck) Tinsley, Chairman of
the Texas Water Development Board,
has been reappointed by Governor
Preston Smith and confirmed by the
Senate for a new six-year term. Also
reappointed and confirmed by the
Governor and the Senate is Robert
B. Gilmore of Dallas. He is the en-
gineer member of the Board.
Tinsley, an original member of the
Board, has served as the finance mem-
ber since its inception in 1957. He is
Executive Director of the Municipal
Advisory Council of Texas, an associ-
ation of municipal securities firms in
Texas; a member of the American
W. E. (BUCK) TINSLEYIn early July, some 22,000 Texas
farmers received an acreage and pro-
duction questionnaire from Charles E.
Caudill, Agricultural Statistician for
the Texas Crop and Livestock Report-
ing Service, Austin, Texas. The pur-
pose of the questionnaire is to provide
information that is to be the basis for
determining harvested acreage and
production of early harvested crops
for the State of Texas and for each
county.
According to Caudill, the informa-
tion is available to the farmer in that
it furnishes a basis for planning future
production and marketing programs.
Reports are needed from every farmer
in order that each of Texas' 254counties are well represented. Texas
covers such a wide area that State
totals alone do not provide adequate
information on the State's most basic
industry; therefore, the Texas Legisla-
ture has provided a program of esti-
mates for each individual county.
The Cross Section joins Caudill in
urging Texas farmers to fill out the
questionnaire as accurately as possible
and to send it to Austin in the stamped
envelope provided. The farmers in
this District can do much to give an
accurate estimate of the counties rep-
resented in the West Texas area. The
grass roots of the Texas population-
the farmers themselves--must join to-
gether in this effort.-.
H&JOHN SEYMOUR
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Iyuan interview July 17, "We'll live to see
the day that we will recall a mental
picture of water running into the draw
and wish we had some of it back."
Aldridge has had this "mental pic-
ture" for a long time now, but knows
that at least he is doing his part to
save the water under his land-by
operating four tailwater pits on three
sections.
J. T. Ford, farm manager, agreed
with the attorney that "one tailwater
pump, properly run and piped, will
equal two 8-inch irrigation wells, and
will pump twice as much water as an
irrigation well." To put it another
way, the two believe they can get an
equivalent of two 8-inch wells of tail-
water from the seven 8-inch wells con-
tributing water to the pit. Ford says
a tailwater pit, pumping up to 1,500
gallons per minute, can pump 30 to
60 rows of 2-inch tubes, as compared
to 15 to 30 rows run by one of his
8-inch wells.
Aldridge believes some farmers run
a well of water off their land in a day.
"Because of this belief, I would be
willing for the legislature to pass a law
requiring all farmers to install tail-
water pits, in an effort to conserve
what little fresh water there remains,"
asserted Aldridge.
Tailwater Good For Crops
According to Ford, "We have found
that tailwater is better for the crops
and the land because it is putting goodSeymour Returns
For Short Visit
John Seymour, formerly employed
with the District as its attorney and
Editor of The Cross Section, recently
returned to the Lubbock offices for a
week to handle legal affairs for the
District.
Seymour, a 1970 graduate of Texas
Tech University School of Law, will
be a visiting lecturer, teaching Ocean
Law in the new Marine Resources
Management Program at Texas A&M
University in the Fall. He will also
be teaching courses in Coastal Law
and Environmental Law in the School
of Business. Seymour received a Mas-
ter of Law degree in Ocean Law at
the University of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida, in June of this year.
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