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DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES 



Costs of Irrigation Water in the Upper San Joaquin Deciduous Fruit Areas. 



Deciduous fruits are not localized as are citrus fruits, but are scat- 

 tered throughout the developed portions of the areas south of Kings 

 River, except in the Tulare Lake bottom grain sections. However, they 

 are most largely found under the main southside Kings River irrigation 

 .systems — Alta Irrigation District, Peoples Ditch Company, and Lucerne 

 and Lemoore Irrigation Districts — and in the vicinity of Tulare Irri- 

 gation District, in the Delano-]\IcParland section, and in the Kern River 

 areas southeast of Bakersfield. Present irrigation costs in these sections 

 are given in Tables 42, 44, 48, 53, 55, and 56. 



Costs per acre under the Kern River ditches (Table 42) are low, 

 ranging from 63 to 99 cents, to cite figures for East Side and Kern 

 River canals only, not including additional costs of operating private 

 pumping plants. Under the Kings County water companies (Table 

 48) the approximate average costs range from 93 cents to $2.45. Under 

 the Kaweah River Delta canals cited (Table 53) the range is $1.01 to 

 $3.28, with some supplemental private pumping not included. For 

 areas supplied exclusively by private pumping plants (Tables 44 and 

 55) the range in the six cases cited, which are those that include decidu- 

 ous fruits as among the crops irrigated, is $10.40 to $17.60 per acre. 



