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<br />COM <br /> <br />SWSI Phase 2 Work Plan Outline <br /> <br />Water Efficiency and Alternative Agricultural Transfer TRTs <br /> <br />The SWSI report summarized some of the issues and concerns with potential water <br />supply alternatives and the basin roundtables also identified additional issues and <br />concerns at the follow-up basin roundtable meetings held in spring 2005. The <br />following excerpt from the SWSI Executive Summary highlights the Efficiency and <br />Alternative Agricultural Transfers to Permanent Dry-up options. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Potential benefits and issues of these options were presented in the SWSI Executive <br />Summary and Chapter 8. These benefits and issues will be discussed and further <br />refined as part of the TRT process taking into consideration unique practices and <br />needs of each basin. One of the key purposes of the Efficiency and Alternative <br />Agricultural Transfer TRTs will be to reach consensus on the technical, legal, political, <br />financial, social, and institutional issues associated with the options listed below and <br />their potential role in meeting future water needs. <br /> <br />Conservation Options <br />. Active Municipal & Industrial Conservation Measures, including measures such as <br />(but not limited to); <br />- Metering <br />- Increasing water rate pricing <br />- Rebates for efficient water using appliances <br />- Incentives for reducing high water use landscaping <br />- Restrictions on amount of lawn area <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. Agricultural Efficiency Measures, including measures such as (but not limited to); <br />Ditch lining <br />- Conversion of flood irrigation to gated pipe <br />Installation of sprinklers <br /> <br />. Phreatophyte Control <br /> <br />Agricultural Transfers <br />. Permanent Agricultural Transfer <br />- The acquisition of agricultural water rights and the cessation of irrigation on <br />these historically irrigated lands. Water rights are transferred to other uses. <br /> <br />. Interruptible Agricultural Transfer <br />An agreement with agricultural users that allow for the temporary cessation of <br />irrigation so that the water can be used to meet other needs. <br /> <br />. Rotating Agricultural Transfer (Fallowing) with Firming for Agricultural Use <br />- An agreement with a number of agricultural users that provides for the <br />scheduled fallowing of irrigated lands on a rotating basis so that the water not <br />irrigating fallowed lands can be used for other uses. Includes a set aside and <br />storage of some of the yield to provide a pool for use by the agricultural users <br />during below average water supply years. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />S:IPHASE::> WORK PLANI$WSI PHASE 2WORKPLAN OUTLINE S.12.DOC <br />