IRRIGATION IN NORTHERN COLORADO. 
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Table 32. — Comparison of stored and direct flow tcater used by four of the 
largest canals of the valley in 1916 and 1917. 
Priority 
No. of 
principal 
appro- 
priation. 
Water used. 
Storage as 
Canal. 
Direct 
flow 
acre-feet. 
Storage 
acre-feet. 
per cent 
of total. 
1916. 
Greelev Canal No. 2 
37 
88 
97 
98 
37 
54,908 
67, 166 
49, 876 
16, 169 
53, 383 
67, 889 
64, 692 
20, 745 
13,458 
23, 926 
22,111 
25,188 
14,617 
29,547 
19, 274 
28,954 
20 
Larimer and Weld Canal 
26 
Larimer County Canal 
31 
North Poudre Canal 
61 
21 
1917. 
Greeley Canal No. 2 
Larimer and Weld Canal 
88 
97 
98 
30 
Larimer Comity Canal 
23 
North Poudre Canal 
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5 6 7 
EE7T PER DAY 
Fig. 15. — Absorption losses in reservoirs. Relation between the depth 
and the loss. 
FARM RESERVOIRS. 
A large number of reservoirs of the valley may be properly classed 
as farm reservoirs. They are owned by the individual farmer and 
are used by him to hold temporarily his supply of water from some 
