Laserfiche WebLink
<br />will be converted to residential and urban uses during the next ten <br />years; extensive oil shale development could raise the estimate to <br />9,700 acres. Under projected conditions there would be about 57,000 <br />acres remaining in irrigated agriculture. Present zoning authority <br />could control the pattern of new developments, preserve the irrigated <br />lands, and possibly reduce the acreage converted to urban uses. <br /> <br />Some of the newly developed sub-divi5i~ns have retained agricultural <br />water ri9hts associated with the land and allocated those rights to <br />building lots so the new homeowner can pump from irrigation ditches <br />to water lawns and shrubs. Therefore, salt loading conditions at the <br />river may not be alleviated because of land use conversions, unless <br />water management plans also are developed and implemented for resi- <br />dential homeowners. <br /> <br />34 <br />