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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I nn~1l,3S uu_- ;. potential for having the benefits of irrigation exceed the costs of converting them to irrigated agricultural use. The three potentially irrigable parcels in the San Juan West Watershed are listed in Table 5-1, along with a description of the characteristics of each parcel. The first four columns of Table 5-1 give the parcel number, net irrigable acres, land class and climatic zone descriptions for each parcel. The fifth column of Table 5-1, entitled "Cropping Pattern Suitability", provides an indication of whether the cropping pattern that maximizes repayment capacity is suitable for the land class of the individual parcel under consideration. Column six of Table 5-1 provides a description of the percentage amount of tree canopy on each parcel, and column seven provides a description of the parcel's distance from the theoretical central location of a farm equipment warehouse. The remaining columns in Table 5-1 describe any adjustments that were made to preliminary repayment capacity to reflect each parcel's characteristics. As Table 5-1 shows, Parcels SW76, SW81 and SW82 constitute approximately 204 acres of potentially irrigable lands in climatic zone A in the San Juan West Watershed. There parcels are in close proximity to each, other, and could be farmed as a single unit. All. three of these parcels have land classes suitable for the corn and soybean crop rotation that maximizes repayment capacity for climatic zone A (see Level A Economic Analysis Report). The combined size of these parcels is too small to achieve the 1000 acre economies of scale assumed in the Level A analysis. Furthermore, since there is no currently irrigated acreage in close 6 "~