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<br /> <br />Other Actions <br /> <br />Because reducing the amount of Wellton. <br />Mohawk drainage that must be treated will <br />lower the required capacity of the desalting <br />plant, several important but less publicized <br />programs are being instituted. Irrigation <br />Management Services, an innovative water <br />scheduling program, will give farmers in the <br />Well ton. Mohawk District a tool to improve <br />their irrigation efficiency. Growers will also <br />be encouraged to improve the efficiency of <br />their on farm irrigation systems through a <br />Federal cost-sharing program for new <br />irrigation equipment and facilities. Pressure <br />irrigation systems will be installed on some <br />farms. <br /> <br />Improvements in irrigation efficiency, <br />coupled with a program for limiting the <br />acreage being irrigated, could reduce the <br />amount of drainage water which would have <br />to be treated at the desalting plant from the <br />current 220.000 acre. feet per year of runoff <br />to a projected 167.000 acre-feet annually. A <br />10,000.acre reduction of the 75.000 acres of <br />land in the District's original authorization <br />will limit irrigation to a land area approxi- <br />mating that now under cultivation. <br /> <br />A change in the operation of Painted Rock <br />Dam, upstream from Wellton.Mohawk on <br />the Gila River, will reduce the likelihood of <br />future Gila River floodwaters periodically <br />increasing the District's return flow. <br />Floodwaters will be temporarily retained <br />and released slowly enough that they will <br />dissipate before reaching the District. <br />