WSP10141

• File Number: 8542
• Description: Conejos Division - Platoro
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 4/1/1947
• Title: Supplemental Report - Conejos Division - San Luis Valley Project - Project report No. 5-101-1
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

and supplies, etc.; and in addition, sums required to cover depreciation of
equipment and working livestock; replacements, interest on farm operating
capital; and charges for renter's labor.

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utilizing the income-to-land method of repayment analysis, as outlined
above, the owner's share of the increased annual gross crop income per farm
acre in the project area with an adequate water supply is as follows:

Crop

Weighted Gross
Increased Value
Per Acre

Owner's Share

Alfalfa
Sweet Clover
Other Tame Hay
Native FBY and Pasture
Tame Pasture
Field Peas
Wheat
Oats
Barley
Other Grain
Dry Beans
Potatoes
Sugar Beets
Truck
Irrigable Lands
Not Now Cropped

$ 1~51
0.70
0.09
0.02
0.29
0.82
0.78
0.47
1.08
0.06
0.30
8.78
0.11
3.70

$0076
0.35
0.04
0,,01
0.10
0.27
0.26
0.16
0.36
0.02
0.10
2.19
0.03
0.93

- 0.07
$l.iJ.64

~ 0,,02
-;;?~56

The increase in gross crcp income and the reeultant increase in the
lar.dovmer's share, as determined above, is predicated upon the availability
of sufficient early and late season water to ccmpletely satisfy cropping
requirements. However, studies indicate that unavoidable water shortages
will occur in seme years, thereby reducing the water user's increase in
gross crop income and the landowner's 'share.

From the studies which have been made, the unavoidable shortages
occurring with Platoro Reservoir of 60,000 acre-feet of capacity, operated
for irrigation, result in an average annual reduction in the increased gross
crop income of $lBIJ600 or $1.97 per farm acre. The landowner's share of '
the increased gross crop income is $5.56, or 29.8 percent. Application of
this percentage to the average annual ~eduction in gross crop income of
$1.97 per farm acre indicates an average annual reduction in the ormer's
share of $0058" The owner's share of the increased gross crop income,will
then be reduced from $5.56 to $4.98 per farm acre.

The income-.to-land method of repayment analysis specifies that the
landowner be all~wed a reasonable return on the increased investment,
necessary to assure the efficient and profitable operation of the farm unite
In the Conejos Division it is estimated that an average increased invest-
ment of $30 per acre will be necessary for repairing and reconstructing

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