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<br />Other Actions <br /> <br />Because reducing the amount of Wellton. <br />Mohawk drainage that must be treated will <br />lower the required capacity of the desaiting <br />plant, several important but less publicized <br />programs are being instituted. Irrigation <br />Management Services, an innovative water <br />scheduling program, will give farmers in the <br />Wellton-Mohawk District a tool to improve <br />their irrigation efficiency. Growers will also <br />be encouraged to improve the efficiency of <br />their onfarm irrigation systems through a <br />Federal cost-sharing program for new <br />irrigation equipment and facilities. Pressure <br />irrigation systems will be installed on some <br />farms. <br /> <br />Improvements in irrigation efficiency, <br />coupled with a program for limiting the <br />acreage being irrigated, couid reduce the <br />amount of drainage water which wouid have <br />to be treated at the desalting piant from the <br />current 220,000 acre-feet per year of runoff <br />to a projected 167,000 acre-feet annually. A <br />10,000-acre reduction of the 75,000 acres of <br />land in the District's origlnai authorization <br />will limit irrigation to a land area approxi- <br />mating that now under cultivation. <br /> <br />A change in the operation of Painted Rock <br />Dam, upstream from Well ton-Mohawk on <br />the Gila River, will reduce the likeiihood of <br />future Gila River floodwaters periodically <br />increasing the District's return fiow. <br />Floodwaters will be temporarily retained <br />and released siowly enough that they will <br />dissipate before reaching the District. <br /> <br />91.6CLi J <br /> <br />