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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 />ECONOMIC IMPACTS - This has been studied several commentators. The loss of this <br />number of acres has affected all segments of the local and in particular the Rocky Ford economy. <br />It has resulted in a reduction in the real estate tax base that will impact local government and <br />schools. The seller was an out of the area investment group, so there was limited if funds from the <br />sale returned to the area. <br /> <br />SOCIAL IMPACTS - The negative economic impacts have and will result in some negative <br />social impacts such as the loss of jobs can and will impact the local society. There have been <br />proposals to deed to or sell the associated lands to the Colorado Division of Wildlife that met local <br />resistance. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS. This sale has the requirement of a "Court Ordered" <br />revegetation of the lands dried up. About 30 percent of the land has been successfully revegetated. <br />The balance is in various stages of revegetation. <br /> <br />COMMENTS - While Aurora has only the right to store the Rocky Ford water in Pueblo <br />Reservoir, it has a pending application 87CW63 to exchange the water further up stream to Twin <br />Lakes and its Otero pipeline. As an alternative, Aurora has also contracted to trade (without <br />decree) its Rocky Ford Ditch water at Pueblo Reservoir to Pueblo Board of Water Works for <br />Pueblo's water in Twin Lakes at a significant price. <br /> <br />Information from decree and Doug Kemper, Water Resources Manager, City of Aurora, <br />12/11/92; research by Kevin Pratt; impacts by Bill Milenski. <br /> <br />A2-17 <br />