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<br />'. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Specific social, economic, and environmental elements to be described in Task 3B include: <br /> <br />. From current existing data, profile the economic, social, and demographic <br />characteristics of the Ft. Lyon Canal water users and the surrounding corrununity <br />populations. <br /> <br />. Make reasonable projections for 10-30 years in the future, without considering <br />implementation of the various alternatives discussed in Task 4. <br /> <br />. Identify and quantify the on fann/off farm effects of current levels of agricultural <br />production as to: <br /> <br />economic influences, level of significance, relationships to non-agricultural <br />enterprise and the local communities, level of investment of Ft. Lyon Canal <br />shareholders, employment by sectors, local tax base and local government <br />budgets; summarize and characterize relationships and trends. <br /> <br />. Water quality considerations on crops, cropping patterns, and land use, by selected <br />subareas of the service area. <br /> <br />. Wildlife habitat in and around springs, tailwater ponds, bogs, wetlands, open drains <br />and ditches, as well as in incidentally irrigated hedgerows. <br /> <br />. Threatened and endangered species at the Great Plains Reservoirs and below John <br />Martin Reservoir. <br /> <br />. Threatened species such as eagles and other raptors which nest in cottonwoods <br />adjacent to the canal, laterals, and seeps, <br /> <br />. Wetlands created by canal seepage, and outcrops of return flows from ditch seepage <br />and irrigation. <br /> <br />. Recreational opportunities created by water storage in all the Ft. Lyon, Great Plains, <br />and John Marrin storage pools, <br /> <br />. Fishery at the reservoirs. <br /> <br />. River bottom ecology dependent on year round groundwater return flows to the <br />stream bed, and the historic absence of greater flows through the reach below the <br />headgates of the Ft, Lyon and Ft. Lyon Storage canals. <br /> <br />7 <br />