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been used to take water from irrigated farmland. <br />The proposed 4-year project scope has been developed by CSU personnel and will be <br />implemented by many of the agriculture-related departments at CSU. The detailed scope <br />of work is presented in this application. The key CSU personnel involved in this project <br />are shown in Exhibit B, attached. Mr. Frank Jaeger, District Manager at PWSD, will be <br />the overall project manager and Mr. Bruce Lytle of Lytle Water Solutions will serve as <br />the project liaison, coordinating water rights issues associated with the proposed research. <br />To gain input from the local community, CSU has also set up an Advisory Committee to <br />assist the project. The Advisory Committee has met three times to date and is scheduled <br />to meet periodically throughout the course of the project to provide input to the project. <br />The Advisory Committee includes local farmers, local businessmen, and representatives <br />from the Division 1 Engineer's Office in Greeley and the Northern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District. The Advisory Committee members are shown in the attached <br />Exhibit C. <br />One phase of the project will include controlled research by CSU on a farm in Logan <br />County that is owned by PWSD. Various crops will be planted by CSU and these plots <br />will be irrigated in different patterns to assess the crop's ability to thrive under varying <br />irrigation practices, e.g., irrigating alfalfa prior to its first cutting, letting it grow without <br />irrigation through the second cutting, and then irrigating it again prior to the third cutting. <br />In this way, CSU will develop a data base on the most efficient irrigation practices for <br />various crops where the crop can still thrive under a lower irrigation volume. The <br />difference between the reduced irrigation volume and the historic irrigation volume <br />related to consumptive use could then be made available for transfer to PWSD for <br />municipal use. The challenge to this research is to develop the means to quantify the <br />water savings, as it will not be as easily quantifiable as with a "buy and dry" concept. A <br />series of ground water monitoring wells has been developed around the research farms to <br />better understand ground water levels and the potential for sub-irrigation. The <br />participation of the Division 1 Engineer's Office in the process is going to be critical to <br />answering the necessary questions regarding the quantification of consumptive use that <br />will be removed from the land while the land is still being irrigated. <br />Since adoption of a consumptive use quantification process to allow innovative crop <br />irrigation management is paramount in the overall success of the study, CSU has proposed <br />adding research and analysis in the field of remote sensing to quantify consumptive use <br />water savings. The remote sensing of ET work is currently being conducted in the South <br />Platte and the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado as well as the Palo Verde Irrigation District <br />in California. This work will allow CSU to compare the remote sensing of ET values that <br />reflect "actual" conditions versus the traditionally-calculated ET values (such as those <br />computed from Penman Monteith, ASCE Combination Equation or Blaney-Griddle). By <br />working with data from both the South Platte and Arkansas River basins, and working with <br />the SEO through the Advisory Committee, the process may have statewide applicability for <br />change of use proceedings. <br />While the controlled research will develop an extensive data base on efficient irrigation <br />2 <br />