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<br />Alternative Plans Considered: <br /> <br />.':1 <br /> <br />- <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1. Future without - no action <br /> <br />2. Management practices <br /> <br />3. Management practices plus enduring irrigation systems improvements. <br /> <br />Other Alternatives Considered, But Did Not Adequately Address Problems, <br /> <br />Included: <br /> <br />a. canal lining <br /> <br />b. change from surface systems to center pivots <br /> <br />c. purchase of irrigation rights from land owners <br /> <br />Project Purposes: <br /> <br />The primary purposes are: 1. Agricultural water management - reduce negative water <br /> <br />quality impacts to surface and groundwater, including the Arkansas River from <br /> <br />selenium, sediment, salts and nitrate loading and improve water application <br /> <br />effectiveness; and 2. Watershed protection. protect the soil resource base from <br /> <br />excessive irrigation induced erosion and sedimentation... These ourooses are related IQ <br /> <br />aQhi~v;na a condition which aODroaches that wbich existed Drior to the Arkansas River <br /> <br />Comoact. Tbis will be accomplished with modernization of the on-farm irric;tatjQn <br /> <br />svstems and methodolo(;;des. <br /> <br />lJl*5 <br />