The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1954 Page: 3 of 4
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News, and The Pampa Daily News show scenes of the flood
damage resulting from the 7 to 9 inch rain which fell in three
hours Wednesday evening of last week June 9).
Lunches, Short orders
Pies baked fresh daily
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Weller
Proprietors
in photo No. 5—a 5-year-old concrete bridge across Highway 70,
between Clarendon and Jericho. No. 2—Bridge 8 miles north of
Goodnight on Farm-to-Market Road 289. No. 3—Lake McClellan’s
high waters were running over the dam with spillway wide open.
The bottom photo shows scene of flood waters on street running
west to school house from corner near watertower.
of a dependable municipal water
supply. The important point is
that the total runoff from the un-
treated watershed during the five
drouth years was only about two-
thirds of the average runoff for
one years during the normal rain-
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By Joseph E. White
Staked Plains Soil Conservationist
Cities and industries have been
asking whether soil conservation
being carried out by thousands of
farmers and ranchers through soil
conservation districts will reduce
the amount of water available for
municipal and industrial uses.
H. N. Smith, State Conserva-
tionist for Texas, says that for all
practical purposes, the answer
seems to be “no.”
The Soil Conservation Service
has been studying this problem at
the Blacklands Experimental Wat-
ersheds project near Riesel, Tex-
as, since 1940. The studies include
measurements of rainfall and run-
off from two similar watersheds.
They are still in progress.
Similar farming practices were
being followed on both watersheds
at the beginning of the study.
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understood.
Although soil conservation prac-
tices on a watershed will not have
a significant effect on water yield
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ing water supplies from loss of
storage space by sedimentation.
Conservation practices reduce
erosion and the rate of reservoir
sedimentation. By slowing down
the rate at which reservoirs are
filling with sediment, Mr. Smith
said, more storage capacity will
be maintained in which to store
water for use during drouth years.
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Mr. Smith emphasized that be-
cause runoff during drouth years:
may be very small, water supply
reservoirs must have enough capa-
city to catch the water during
years of normal to high runoff,
and store it for use during drouth
Torrential rains made the earth so mushy that a gasoline storage tank at the Robertson
Skelly Service Station in Groom, on Highway 66 was forced out of the ground. The pipes
attached to the top of the tank are'those leading to the gasoline service pumps.
Conservation practices were es-
tablished on one of the watersheds
in the spring of 1943. These prac-
tices included changing part of
the cultivated area to grassland;
the use of improved crop rota-
tions; and the construction of ter-
races on land in cultivation. No;
change: was made in the farming
practices on the other watershed.
During the first five years rain-
fall was slightly above normal and
the runoff-producing rainfall aver-
aged 17.4 inches annually. The,
following five years, 1948 through >
’1952, were drouth years and the.
runoff-producing rainfall averaged
only 4.8 inches yearly. The total
rainfall during the drouth period
was two-thirds the amount for
the normal five years, but most of
it fell in such small amounts or
at such a slow rate that it pro-
duced no runoff.
For the normal rainfall period
there was almost no difference in
the runoff from the untreated and
treated watersheds, Mr. Smith re-
ported. The annual average was
10.3 and 10.4 inches, respectively.
During the drouth period the aver-
age yearly runoff from the un-
treated and treated watersheds
was approximately 1.4 and 0.9
inches.
The fact that there was a dif-
ference of one-half inch in the
' annual runoff from these two wat-
ersheds during the drouth years is
not the significant point, said Mr.
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1954, newspaper, June 17, 1954; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1487285/m1/3/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.