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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />we have completed nineteen mini-reports -- what we. call mini-reports. <br />They cover nineteen subject areas of inventories of the Rio Grande <br />River Basin. They cover such subjects as drainage problems and flood <br />control problems. . <br /> <br />. <br />We have inventoried the total agricultural economy in the basin. We <br />also have identified potential problems with subdivision development <br />and contacted local county governments. These reports are .avai1ab1e, <br />covering all these subject areas, to anyone who is interested. <br /> <br />We have made distribution .of these reports within the basin. Our local <br />RC&D project coordinator, Bobbie Sorrels, has these reports. He has <br />been distributing them for some time in the Valley. Anyone else who <br />would be interested in these reports could get a copy of them. <br /> <br />In order to determine what the problems are in the basin, the mini- <br />reports that we have put together was one effort in this regard. <br />Another effort that.we have been working extensively on is a computer <br />program by which we have attempted to simulate the basin conditions. <br /> <br />We have inventoried all the soils, the water, and any other things that <br />are appropriate in this.basin to study, and put them into this computer <br />model where we are attempting to determine what the basin's capabilities <br />are in meeting the demand for food and fiber in the future. time frames <br />in which we plan. Our planning effort looks at different time frames, <br />our furthest out being the year 2020. We have analyzed the basin's . <br />conditions in regard to the present conditions. We also have determined <br />what we call future.without project conditions.will be. <br /> <br />. <br />.Included in the future without project conditions are some projects <br />which are already authorized for implementation that we have included <br />in our computer analysis, which will tell us what increases in water <br />supplies that the basin can expect from these projects.and try to <br />analyze what the future conditions of the basin will be without projects. <br /> <br />Now, when I say "future without conditions" we do have the Trinchera <br />Watershed project included in this analysis; also the Closed Basin <br />Project. Because there is a trend toward use of a lot more center- <br />pivot irrigation, we have tried to analyze this condition in the <br />computer program that will tell us what the future conditions will be. <br />. . <br /> <br />These are the three primary things that we see: The projects that I <br />mentioned, plus the trend toward center-pivot irrigation, as being a <br />future without conditions that we feel will exist in the basin. <br /> <br />Nowt the third analysis we will make will be future with project <br />conditions, which we're actively engaged in at the present time. We <br />have identified twelve early action projects that we will be ana1yzing- <br />in the future with project conditions, and when I say early action <br />projects, these are projects that we expect could be implemented by <br />the year 2000, and we will be analyzing these, and we've also identified <br />twenty-four long-range projects.. <br /> <br />These are projects that we feel have a potential for development by the <br />year 2020. We will be including them in our analysis to determine what <br /> <br />-17- <br />