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<br />w <br />~ <br />-..J . <br />co <br /> <br />from slightly over $1 million to $2.3 million annually by year <br />2000. The change in agricultural income consists of changes in <br />net farm income only. Since farmers would be able to maintain <br />production by increasing ground-water pumping, there would be no <br />change in agricultural-related industries. However, there would <br />be indirect changes occurring throughout the regional economy due <br />to farmers' reduced purchasing power resulting from increased <br />pumping costs. No estimate was made of the impacts associated <br /> <br />with the increased income of the utility companies providing <br /> <br />pumping power. <br /> <br />The estimated impacts on total regional earnings are presented in <br /> <br />the last column of table 3. These impacts were estimated with <br /> <br />the DYRAM (Dynamic Regional Analysis Model) developed by the <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Management in Denver. Changes in agricultural <br /> <br />income served as input to DYRAM which was used to estimate income <br /> <br />impacts on all regional industries including agriculture. <br /> <br />Therefore, the impacts in table 3 include direct agricultural <br /> <br />impacts plus induced income changes in all industries. The <br /> <br />impacts for each alternative are well below 1 percent of total <br /> <br />regional income. <br /> <br />Impacts from Increased Salinity <br /> <br />Changes in water quality were limited in this analysis to changes <br /> <br />in sal inity level at Imperial Dam. Impacts were treated as being <br /> <br />18 <br />