Water
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proper representation from
farmers. Shelhamer, who is
a farmer himself, leaves no
doubt that such tactics
arouse his defensive in
stincts. DER now has an
agricultural advisory board
to provide farmer input into
sedimentation and erosion
regulations.
Shelhamer believes very
strongly that farmer
representation is what’s
needed in the SRBC.
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Although the SRBC claims
that its regulations wouldn’t
affect farmers 80 per cent of
the time, Shelhamer attacks
that statement noting that
it’s the other 20 per cent that
really concerns farmers.
Total water use on farms
is to be limited to 100,000
gallons per day. That
would include uses which
take water and return it
back into the system. Most
uses on the farm fall into the
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consumptive use category,
however.
Shelhamer noted that
studies have shown
irrigation to be profitable
every year out of two. In
many cases, irrrigation is
needed every year m order
to make vegetable and fruit
production profitable. The
economics of some of these
businesses have tightened so
that farmers can’t afford to
bypass irrigation.
According to McSparran,
those farmers who have
been irrigating since 1971
will retain their irrigation
rights. It is not known,
however, what will happen
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to those rights when the
farm is sold or passed on to
heirs. Farmers who want to
begin irrigating this year
should apply for a permit
first, McSparran said.
-The water use.question
also applies to industry,
which uses 60 per cent of all
the water in the state, and
power companies, which
gobble up another sizable
chunk. Agriculture, it was
pointed out, uses only about
one per cent of the supply.
One member in the
audience, thought it was
grossly unfair for
agriculture to receive the
limitations since farmers
use so little out of the total
supply. McSparran con
sidered the comment and
repeated his earlier
statement that farmers
should make their needs
known to the SRBC.
Shelhamer wants farmers
to write to DER Secretary
Maurice Goddard, and the
SRBC. Both cap be reached
by addressing your
correspondence to the
Department of En
vironmental Resources,
Office of Public Information,
Evan Building, P.O. Box
1467, Hamsburg, Pa. 17120.
McSparran says that the
state should have the
authority to regulate water
use in order to protect
various users. “We need
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Cecil Co, plans ag meetings
ELKTON, Md. - On March
13 and 20, the Cecil County
Cooperative Extension
Service will be discussing
grain marketing. Topics to
be included are forward
contracting, hedging, basis,
and the futures market. John
Crothers, ag economist,
Univeristy of Maryland, will
direct the first session on
March 13. Ron Garner,
commodity broker, will
handle the second session on
March 20. Both sessions will
begin at 8 p.m. and will be
held at the Civil Defense
meeting room in the Court
House in Elkton, Md.
In other marketing news,
,the Cecil County ASCS Office
will hold a meeting on the
set-aside program for feed
grains in the Extension
conference room on March
15 at 8 p.m. Bill Sharp,
specific information on who
the users are and what they
need," he said.
“The authorities are
inadvertantly giving your
water away because they
haven’t heard from you.
That’s why they want to
study irrigation water
needs,” the DER spokesman
warned.
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