The crops grown within the Klamath Project area consist of grain, hay, pasture,
silage, mint, potatoes, onions, vegetables, alfalfa, and horseradish.
This list of crops represents the majority of crops grown within the
Klamath
Basin
over the last 40 to 50 years.
The cropping pattern has varied from year to year, but the overall
planted acreage has remained consistent.
Irrigation
water requirements from the
Klamath River
are diverted and measured at the A
Canal, Station 48, Miller Hill Pumping Plant,
North
Canal
, and
Ady
Canal
. The
unmeasured sites include Number 1 Drain, miscellaneous private diverters along
the
Lost
River
diversion channel, and diversions made
from
Spring
Lake
. The
following plot shows the combined volume for all diversion points from the
Klamath River
. This
plot includes an estimate of the diversions made at the unmeasured locations.
As can be seen from the plot, diversions from
Klamath River
have remained relatively consistent
between 400,000 and 550,000 acre-feet during March through October, with the
exception of 2001 when curtailments by the Bureau of Reclamation were made to
Project water users.
