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Conclusions The Wadley Farms Filing No. 3 Homeowners' Association has identified alternatives for increasing the water supply available to its community irrigation water system and to increase the reliability of irrigation water supplies during drought periods. The HOA raw water supply system provides water supplies for irrigation of 109 homeowner lots and provides fire- fighting protection through the water system fire hydrants. The HOA is currently the owner of three shares of the FHL Company, which are delivered through the Signal Ditch to the three Wadley Reservoirs and also owns storage water rights for the reservoirs. The Wadley Farms No. 3 Subdivision lots generally range in size from about 2.5 acres to 4 acres. Lots are zoned for agricultural use and the subdivision has a rural character with pasture areas and livestock on most lots. The HOA relies on having sufficient water supplies for its water system to maintain landscaping for individual properties, to keep sufficient water levels in its three reservoirs for sustaining fish and fire- fighting reserves during dry periods, and to assure the continued contribution by the lakes to the subdivision's attractive character. The limited water supplies currently available to the HOA during extended dry periods negatively affects all of these needs, despite the reasonable steps that have been taken to use the existing Wadley Farms No. 3 water supplies wisely. In the severe drought year of 2002, the HOA found it necessary to prohibit almost all irrigation use due to the limited water supply and was barely able to maintain a sufficient fire-fighting reserve in the Wadley Reservoirs. The HOA has also needed to restrict water allocations in recent dry years, such as 2012 and 2013, due to the insufficient water supplies yielded by the IIOA's current water rights. The average historic direct irrigation water amount available at the Wadley Farms No. 3 headgate from the Signal Ditch with the three FHL shares currently owned by the HOA. from both direct irrigation and reservoir storage deliveries, is 128.5 acre -feet. The minimum total average annual water availability for the HOA's current water rights, including both direct irrigation and reservoir storage deliveries, occurred in 1954 when only 67.4 acre -feet were available to the HOA. The average annual irrigation water delivery requirement for the subdivision is 42.2 aC This corresponds with the typical annual water allocation of 126,000 gallons given for each lot for the period from mid -May to October. This equates to 42.15 acre -feet if all 109 lots were to fully irrigate 8000 square feet, which is the maximum allowed under the Wadley Farms No. 3 covenants. In a very hot, dry year, the annual irrigation requirement might reach as much as 42.4 inches (26.4 gallons /sq.ft.) or 70.7 acre -feet for the subdivision. In dry years with limited water availability, the HOA board of directors has the authority under its bylaws and covenants to limit use of the irrigation supply to less than this amount. Losses for evaporation from the surface of the three Wadley Reservoirs every year averages 26.4 inches per year or 52.8 acre -feet. Net evaporation losses will increase in hot, dry years Wadley Farms No. 3 Water Supply CWCB Loan Feasibility Study Page 33