WSP01419

• File Number: 8220.128.J
• Description: Silt Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1961
• Title: Report of the Reappraisal of Direct Agricultural Benefits and Project Impacts - Silt Project-Colorado - Part 2 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Land Development Costs

The acreage of each evaluation area, the projected land values and the
additional cost of land and farm irrigation systems, and annual cost
per acre are shown in table 18. Costs of farm buildings, machinery, fences,
domestic water, and maintenance and replacement costs of the farm irrigation
system are included as farm expenses in the budgets. The degree of develop-
ment anticipated on land and farm irrigation systems for each evaluation
area was considered in setting up man and machine requirements.

Table 18.- Estimated average annual additional cost per acre of irrigable
land for land and land development, with project development,
by evaluation areas, Silt project

Item

g Unit g

A

g

B

Evaluation areas
C g D E g

F

g G g H

. .
o 0

Land area !/

Acre

3,005 1,356 657 215

181

177 341 346

Land values
Irrigated land Dollar 200.00 190.00 ----- ----- 115.00 100.00 ----- -----
Range, improved do ------ ------ ----- ----- ------ ------ 25.00 25.00
Range, unimproved do 15.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 ------ ------ 15.00 15.00
Weighted average do 1Ti',>'tl 168.93 15.00 15.00 ll5.00 100.00 23.36 23.82

Add i ti ona1 land improvement
Land Dollar 1.79 1.81 15.00 15.00 ------ ------ 23.36 23.82
Land clearing do 1.20 .90 ----- ......""-- ------ -....-...-- 2.63 4.56
Land leveling do 36.24 15.0531.7023.44 24~86 18.15 39.82 18.00
Farm irrigation
system do 15.43 8.59 34.83 2B.93 14.1B 8.75 27.32 15.36
Drainage do 12.16 1.53 --=-- ------ ------ --=-- -----
Total do 66.B2 27.88 81.53 67.37 39.04 26.9093.13 61.74
Annual cost
Land y Dollar .09 .09 .76 .76 ------ -=-""'....- 1.18 1.20
Land clearing ~ do .06 .05 ----- ----- ------ ------ .13 .23
Land level ing Y do 1.83 .76 1.60 1.18 1.25 .91 2.01 .91
Farm irrigation
system y. do .85 .47 1.91 1.58 .78 .48 1.50 .84
Drainage y do .67 .OB -----= ----....- ---....=- ----.... -----
Total do 3.50 1.45 4.27 3.52 2.03 1.39 4.82 3.18

!/ Excludes lands in the present pump area.
2/ Land, land clearing, and land leveling amortized over a 100-year
perTod at 5 percent interest (factor .05038).
2/ Farm irrigation system and drainage amortzed over a 50-year period at
5 percent interest (factor .05478).

Based on price projections by the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
September 1957.

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