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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Woodward.Clyde Consultants 3.3 LAND USE 3.3.1 Present There are presently approximately 55,000 acres served by the Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company and all of this acreage is in agricultural use. M noted previously it is difficult to separate lands served specifically by Douglas Reservoir except by correlating the contribution Douglas Reservoir water makes to the whole irrigation system to the total acreage the whole system serves. On apercentage basis, Douglas Reservoir can be thought to serve about 8,250 acres of irrigated land. Crops grown on lands served by Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company include corn, hay, sugar beets, pinto beans and carrots. No data was available on the actual percentages of the different crops grown in the service area, however, a rough breakdown of the different crops for Weld county was estimated from Colorado Agricultural Statistics, 1990, published by the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Table 3-2 presents the different irrigated crops grown on lands serviced by the Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company, the estimated acres of each crop, the 1989 yields per acre and 1989 dollars per unit. A summary of the yields of the various irrigated crops for the past five years is given in Table 3-3. 3.3.2 Future The anticipated net acreage of irrigated crop usage in the project service area IS expected to remain the same or very near the same as the present acreage. Even if some agricultural land is changed to municipal or residential use, the associated water usage assessments will remain with those particular land packages, therefore, a net decrease or increase in use is not anticipated. 3.4 LAND OWNERSHIP One hundred percent of the irrigated lands served by the Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company are privately owned. 22539G/DDUGLAS.DAM 12.17.90/REPDRTS3 13