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(3974) Gross lift area
The portion of the gross irrigable area that can be irrigated only by pumping or lifting the water by other devices. Gross commanded area plus gross lift area equals gross irrigable area. The source of water may be subsoil water reservoir, pumping from a river, pumping or lifting water from a gravity flow canal or from the storage itself.

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