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<br />I <br />I. <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />Ie <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />Ie <br />I <br /> <br />2748 <br /> <br />1. WATER RIGHT - Bessemer Ditch (Pueblo County) <br /> <br />CASE NUMBER - none <br /> <br />TOTAL ACRES - 20,000 <br /> <br />TOTAL MOVED -1,627 shares have been purchased to date of 19,738 shares outstanding. <br /> <br />% MOVED -3.5 percent <br /> <br />ACREAGE DRIED UP TO DATE -Approximately 500 acres plus 50 acres fallow. <br /> <br />FROM - Irrigators and land developers <br /> <br />TO - St. Charles Mesa Water District <br /> <br />DATE - 1964 to present <br /> <br />PRICE - About $1500 per share without land. <br /> <br />DECREED TERMS AND CONDITIONS - none <br /> <br />AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS -The farms affected were often already being subdivided for <br />residential use. Lost approximately 500 acres of land under agriculture production. <br /> <br />ECONOMIC IMPACTS - Economic impacts may have been limited as shares often came from <br />part-time, or hobby farmers. Loss of gross revenues generated on the 500 acres including the <br />multiplier affect of these revenues. Land converted to residential and small commercial sites on <br />the outer fringes of Pueblo. <br /> <br />SOCIAL IMPACTS - Potential loss of additional young farmers. More city growth and <br />infringement on larger agricultural producers that may result in conflict between urban desires and <br />agricultural needs. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS - Less dust and other agricultural pollutants, but somewhat <br />offset by possible environmental damage associated with residential and commercial areas. <br /> <br />COMMENTS - The area under the Bessemer ditch has always included urban areas in <br />Pueblo. Pueblo has owned for many years approximately 100 shares used for park and golf course <br />irrigation. Another approximate 100 shares has been used by Roselawn cemetery for cemetery <br />irrigation. As Pueblo grows, the small farms east of Pueblo in the St. Charles Mesa area have been <br />divided into commercial, and small residential subdivisions. The area served by the St. Charles <br />Mesa Water District is gradually changing from rural to semi-rural to suburban. The purchases by <br />the St. Charles District have been from smaller farms nearer Pueblo; the District has tried not to <br />disrupt full time farming activities further east under the Bessemer Ditch. <br /> <br />Information from Lee Simpson, General Manager, St. Charles Mesa Water District, 12/3/92; <br />Bill Milenski & Kevin Pratt comments <br /> <br />A2-4 <br />