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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />1338 <br /> <br />presently irrigated lands on Southern Ute Indian lands. W. W. <br />Wheeler & Associates, Inc., hydrology consultant, identified from <br />aerial photographs and other information available to them the lands <br />presently irrigated and provided to Boyle a marked print of the base <br />map. The amount of irrigated acreage was then planimetered from the <br />base map and tabulated. It should be noted that presently irrigated <br />land covers some land not classified and Class 6 (non-irrigable) <br />soils as determined by Stoneman-Landers, soil consultants. <br /> <br />For the remaining irrigable parcels, an analysis was made to <br /> <br /> <br />determine the residual water payment capacity when only the off-farm <br /> <br /> <br />static pumping lift costs where added to the on-farm costs identified <br /> <br /> <br />in Task B. Based on the elevation of the nearest water supply and the <br /> <br /> <br />elevation of the highest point in each parcel, the static lift to <br /> <br /> <br />serve the parcel was calculated using the computer program developed <br /> <br /> <br />for the Task B report. The power cost to lift the annual water <br /> <br /> <br />requirement to each field was then calculated assuming a 75 percent <br /> <br /> <br />pumping plant efficiency which is a conservatively high assumption: <br /> <br /> <br />and a field delivery pressure of 60 psi for all but gravity irrigated <br /> <br /> <br />fields. <br /> <br />It should be noted that the parcel water payment capacity residual <br />analysis (Appendix 0) was slightly modified from the analysis <br />presented in the Task.B draft report. Land leveling costs for <br />gravity irrigated fields were not included in the Task Bon-farm <br />costs. The Task B report, however, estimated land leveling <br /> <br />3 <br />