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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3. For Rural Domestics - Dual systems may reduce the consumption of high cost treated water for <br />landscaping in unincorporated areas. <br /> <br />4, For Counties. Dual systems may improve the overall stability of the irrigated agricultural industry, <br />and the rural towns and businesses that rely on continued agricultural production, by ensuring that water <br />remains in the county and on the land. <br /> <br />Additional benefits to agricultural water suppliers noticed in other regions of the West where dual <br />systems are operating include: <br /> <br />1. <br />2, <br /> <br />Promoting long-term financial security for agricultural irrigation water suppliers. <br />Helping agricultural water suppliers and domestic water suppliers work together to <br />accomplish mutually beneficial goals. <br />Encouraging county and municipal policies that protect agricultural canal operations from <br />encroaching town growth. <br />Providing a mechanism that can educate and improve the attitude of new residents toward <br />the importance and needs of irrigated agriculture in their midst. <br /> <br />3, <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />PLAN OF STUDY <br /> <br />The study will be conducted in two parts and completed in one year. Part I will generate a regional level <br />report on the potential for expanding pressurized dual system water service in northeastern Colorado. <br />Rather than going into specific details concerning the actual installation of a dual system, this regional <br />level report will address broad opportunities and constraints for dual system development, including <br />assessing the gap between regional water supply and demand, and to what extent dual systems can bridge <br />that gap. Many of the supply, demand, benefit/cost and opportunity cost analyses for the region will be <br />based on the more specific case study analysis conducted in Part II. <br /> <br />Part II will generate a case study report on two irrigation companies who have volunteered to cooperate <br />as walk.through examples of potential pressurized dual system development. This report will address <br />opportunities and constraints at this local specific level, and outline a method that can be used by <br />agricultural water suppliers and engineering firms in initiating dual system development. The examples <br />will provide a "blueprint" for fully assessing opportunities and constraints, Water supply and demand <br />under current potential dual system service, as well as projected supply and demand under projected <br />outbuilding or urban encroachment into the service areas of these two irrigation systems, will be modeled. <br /> <br />. SCOPE OF WORK <br /> <br />Description of Tasks for Part I <br /> <br />The regional level report will include the following tasks and section writeup: <br /> <br />TASK I. Develop a comoosite regional dual system olanning mao covering the unincorporated <br />areas of Water District 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. This composite map will include urban growth area boundaries <br />(current and long term), land use and zoning, subdivisions, rural domestic water supply pipelines, alluvial <br />aquifers, and the general service area location (township and range) of existing agricultural irrigation <br />water suppliers in the study area that are rated as having good potential to voluntarily enter into dual <br />system management. The map will be accompanied by interpretation of observations and findings. <br />