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<br />\:;0 <br />~:n <br />C") <br />~ <br /> <br /><:':~~ <br /> <br />PART 3 <br /> <br />ECONOMIC MONITORING AND EVALUATION <br /> <br />OVERVIEW <br /> <br />The economic monito...ing and evaluation effo...t was sta...ted in June of <br />1985. Field data f...om fa...me... inte...views was collected f...om 1986 <br />th...ough 1988. Also, in 1989, a limited numbe... of follow-up inte...views <br />on additional sites and p...io... inte...viewed sites we...e completed. No <br />data was co II ected in 1990. <br /> <br />The...e is a possibi I ity of ...enewing the field data collection p...ocess <br />in 1991. Plans a...e in p...og...ess to use the "Conse...vation Impact <br />Wo...ksheet" developed by WNTC fo... collection of economic data f...om <br />fa...me...s pa...ticipating in the Colo...ado Rive... Sal inity Cont...ol (CRSC) <br />cost-sha...e p...og...am. The economic effo...t is being di...ected towa...d <br />integ...ation with the no...mal sal inity p...og...am planning p...ocedu...es. <br />Regula... follow-up visits would be used to collect afte... imp...ovement <br />data. <br /> <br />The data gathe...i ng p...ocess f...om 1986 th...ough 1988 i nvo I ved co II ecti ng <br />baseline info...mation on the fa...me....s total p...oduction system in <br />conjunction with the planning p...ocess. Compa...ative data, gathe...ed <br />du...ing follow-up visits, ...evealed fa...m ope...ation changes. Data was <br />collected on i ......igation labo..., field and del ive...y maintenance labo..., <br />machine...y time, numbe... of i......igations, wate... applied, c...op yield and <br />i ...... i gat i on system i nsta II at i on cost. <br /> <br />To date, 35 sites have been evaluated fo... befo...e imp...ovement <br />info...mation, with 21 follow-up inte...views completed. Follow up data <br />has been gathe...ed on six o...cha...ds and 15 field c...op sites. These <br />economic monito...ing sites a...e scatte...ed f...om the Vinelands in the east <br />to the weste...n end of the G...and Va II ey and I ay on both sides of the <br />...ive.... All th...ee majo... i......igation canals--O...cha...d Mesa, G...and Valley, <br />and Gove...nment Highl ine, a...e uti I ized by membe...s of the data set. A <br />va...iety of c...ops and p...oduction systems typical of the G...and Valley <br />w,e...e samp I ed. <br /> <br />At this stage, the economic monito...ing ...esults a...e p...el imina...y. Past <br />find i ngs i nd i cate that on-fa...m benef i ts a...e be i ng ...ea I i zed, and that <br />publ ic benefits a...e being achieved in a cost effective manne... (Refe... <br />to Pa...t 3, 1988 Annual M&E Repo...t). <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br /> <br />The economic monito...ing data of 1986, 1987 and 1988 indicate that on- <br />fa...m beneficial impacts a...e being ...eal ized by applying sal inity <br />p...actices and that benefits va...y g...eatly f...om site to site. <br /> <br />41 <br />