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" 2193 " ( . /.-- , ' ,'I1l~,..:fi~~'~~fict'ie'ffV;lfd4~itf~r\!lJe.titeats'~o.:b1:it(fli$ctib~a;iti1;nsl<,3.!3 include: .:;p,q1r"}J!'}';)':":Y8Vm)!!~f~'f~." ,_"~~_ ;__,_ -,_" "',, ,__ " '_ ',_ ,_" ":' . From current existing data, profile the economic, social, and demographic characteristics of the Ft. Lyon Canal water users and the surrounding community populations. . Make reasonable projections for 10-30 years in the future, without considering implementation of the various alternatives discussed in Task 4. . Identify and quantify the on farm/off farm effects of current levels of agricultural production as to: economic influences, level of significance, relationships to non-agricultural enterprise and the local communities, level of investment of Ft. Lyon Canal shareholders, employment by sectors, local tax base and local government budgets; summarize and characterize relationships and trends. . Water quality considerations on crops, cropping patterns, and land use, by selected subareas of the service area. . Wildlife habitat in and around springs, tailwater ponds, bogs, wetlands, open drains and ditches, as well as in incidentally irrigated hedgerows. . Threatened and endangered species at the Great Plains Reservoirs and below John Martin Reservoir. . Threatened species such as eagles and other raptors which nest in cottonwoods adjacent to the canal, laterals, and seeps. . Wetlands created by canal seepage, and outcrops of retum flows from ditch seepage and irrigation. . Recreational opportunities created by water storage in all the Ft. Lyon, Great Plains, and John Martin storage pools. . Fishery at the reservoirs. . River bottom ecology dependent on year round groundwater return flows to the stream bed, and the historic absence of greater flows through the reach below the headgates of the Ft. Lyon and Ft. Lyon Storage canals. 7 ,J