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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potential for having the benefits of irrigation exceed the costs of

converting them to irrigated agricultural use.

Five of these parcels are in the Animas Drainage, and constitute

a total of approximately 374 acres. In addition, Boyle Engineering

identified an additional 313 acres of currently irrigated lands in the

Animas Drainage, bringing the total potential PIA in that drainage to

approximately 687 acres. (Tqble D.8, Animas and Florida Watersheds

Task D and E Report, Draft No.2, Boyle Engineering Corporation, May,

1986.) Only one 29 acre unirrigated parcel was classified as

potential PIA in the Florida Watershed. However, Boyle Engineering

also identified approximately 700 acres of currently irrigated lands

in the Florida Watershed, bringing total potential PIA to 729 acres in

that drainage. Thus, there is enough irrigated or potentially

irrigable land in each watershed to achieve economies of scale similar

to the 1000 acre operation assumed in the Level A analysis.

The potentially irrigable parcels in both drainages are listed in

Table 5-1, along with a description of the characteristics of each

parcel. The first four columns of Table 5-1 give the parcel number,

net irrigable acres, land class and climatic zone descriptions for

each parcel. The fifth column of Table 5-1, entitled "Cropping

Pattern Suitability", provides an indication of whether the cropping

pattern that maximizes repayment capacity is suitable for the land

class of the individual parcel under consideration. Column six of

Table 5-1 provides a description of the percentage amount of tree

canopy on each parcel, and column seven provides a description of the

parcel's distance from the theoretical central location of a farm

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