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Revelle: 



Sharp: 



I did most of the writing, actually, 

 chapters. 



These people all wrote 



Revelle: 



Sharp : 



Revelle: 



You are exchanging deadlines and who was responsible for 

 what. There's one that Bob Dorfman wrote you.* He 

 addresses some of the problems that you had to get into, 

 like whether or not the timetable was right or you were too 

 optimistic about how fast things might proceed. 



Well, the essential recommendation in this letter is that we 

 should have an extension service, develop an extension 

 service, which is clearly a highly desirable thing to do but 

 difficult to do. All we did was to recommend that it should 

 be done. We didn't follow through on getting it done. And 

 he's recommending that we do that, that we push the 

 development of the extension service, [reading] "The biggest 

 in-service training program for the field assistants and 

 their supervisors. Clearly, I recommend most strongly that 

 the following steps be taken with high priority. An 

 in-service training center should be established in SCARPS 

 1." I don't think anything was ever done along these lines, 

 unfortunately . 



In the papers you see these letters going back and forth 

 about the writing of the chapters, and some of the issues 

 you were going to have to deal with, but it's unclear 

 exactly what all happened. 



Well, the one thing that I know happened — Well, two things 

 that happened after our report was issued. [One] was the 

 development of the MONA project, which was an experimental 

 area that had been proposed by the Geological Survey. It 

 was taken over first by Washington State, and then later I 

 think by Colorado State, or vice versa. 



This was a group of American agriculturists and 

 engineering and irrigation specialists who studied in the 

 field the effects of salt on different crops. There had 

 been some water management at the farm level and at the 

 watercourse level. 



One of their big recommendations was that a lot of 

 water was wasted in the watercourses, a lot of leakage took 

 place from the watercourses. The watercourse is this final 

 ditch that feeds the farms, and the farmer diverts water 

 from the watercourse into his field just by digging a little 

 trench in it. 



They recommended that these watercourses should either 

 be lined or should be straightened out. All the holes 

 should be plugged in, the holes made by animals and by 

 weeds. They should be cleaned of weeds and animals, and a 

 gate should be put in, a little cement gate instead of just 

 digging an opening. 



They greatly improved the utilization of water at the 

 farm level, the so-called water management. This was a real 

 research and experimental program jointly done by I think it 

 was WAPDA and by the Colorado and Washington State people. 



