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001120 Draft - 9/91 TABLE 9 Land Use Pattern for Increased Agricultural Production in the Northwest Region Year 2000 Alfalfa Acreage of Acreage ofc Projected waterb New ~ew .- 1974a,d for Depletion Development Development Land Use Expansion Per Acre Likely Estimate Hiah Estimate Percent Percent Acre-Feet ~cres ~ .62 2.00 .95 0 119 .52 1.00 .95 0 59 .25 1.00 .95 0 59 11.55 30.00 2.04 0 1,774 55.34 40.00 1.76 0 2,365 31.72 26.00 1.76 ...L 1,537 100.00 100.00 1.81 0 5,912 wt. avg. Crop Wheat Barley Oats Other Hay Pasture I - a. Pasture and hay acreage were taken from the Census of Aqriculture, which is published every five years. This section used Census data for the year 1969, pub- lished in 1972. The changes in the data on pasture and hay between 1969-1974 are insignificant for purposes of this au_~ysis. All other acreage data are from the Colorado State Aqricultural Statistics and are constant for the year 1974 regard- less of the year of their mst recent publication. The changes in land use pat- terns between 1974 and the present only serve to reinforce the Projections for Expansion made in this table. Thus, picking another base year and recomputing land use relative to it would be a useless exercise, since the important variables for computing "Acreage of New Development" are the "Percentage Projection for Expan- sion" and the "Weighted Average Water Depletion per Acre." b. Water Depletion equals the sum of consumptive use and incidental loss under current technology and management. c. Equivalent full irrigation based on available water of zero acre-feet for the likely estimate and 10,700 acre-feet for the high estimate. (See Tables 1 and 2.) d. Irrigated acreage for Jackson County was included in the data base for this region because climatic considerations make its water consumption characteristics similar to other Northwest counties.