WSP01535

• File Number: 8200.750
• Description: San Juan River General
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 12/1/1986
• Author: Western Research Cor
• Title: Economic Analysis of Potentially Irrigable Parcels in the Animas and Florida Watersheds - December 1986
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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equipment warehouse. The remaining columns in Table 5-1 describe any

adjustments that were made to preliminary repayment capacity to

reflect each parcel's characteristics.

Parcel A18, consisting of 32 net acres, was judged suitable for

the alfalfa malt barley cropping pattern that maximizes net returns

for climatic zone D (Table D.3, Animas and Florida Watersheds Task D

and E Report, Draft No.2, Boyle Engineering Corporation, May, 1986.)

Its tree canopy cover is less than 10 percent, and its location is

within five miles of a theoretically placed central equipment

warehouse. Therefore, the only repayment capacity adjustment made for

parcel A18 was a three dollar minimum land clearing charge for brush

and grass removal. That charge reduced the preliminary repayment

capacity by three dollars, but the parcel is still classified as

potential PIA.

Parcel A36, consisting of 109 net acres, was judged not suitable

for alfalfa and barley production because of its 4A land

classification. Based upon the results of the agronomic study, class

4A lands are suitable only for native hay production. As a result,

the preliminary repayment capacity for Parcel A36 was reduced by one

hundred fifteen dollars to reflect the lower on-farm returns that

would result from native hay production. (The basis for that

calculation is described in Appendix B to this report.) That

reduction, combined with a three dollar annualized clearing cost,

resulted in a negative residual repayment capacity for Parcel A36. It

should not be considered further as potential PIA.

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